1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Which country started WWI? | Austria-Hungry and Serbia | 2. Find a map of Pre WWI Europe Remember this map. | http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/maps/europe1914.htm | 3. After the Axis Powers were defeated what gathering of leaders followed? | The Treaty of Versailles | 4. Were the Germans consulted at all in the creation of the Treaty of Versailles? | Not at all! When the Germans agreed to a cease fire, they were led to believe that they would help create the Treaty. Nope. They did not see the Treaty until a few weeks before they were forced to sign it. The option was either sign it or be invaded. | 5. The Allied Powers made the terms of the Treaty. Who did they force to take sole responsibility for starting WWI? | Germany | 6. What type of military was Germany allowed after the Treaty of Versailles? | They could only have a 100,000 man standing army with no tanks and limited sea vessels with no submarines. | 7. What other recompense did the Allied Powers force the Germans to pay? | An unpayable amount of money that bankrupted Germany and threw the nation into a huge economic depression. | 8. What new nations were created after WWI? Where were they located at and are there any differences between the map of Pre- WWI and Post-WWI? What do you notice? | Poland, Greece, Romania, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/maps/europe1919.htm | 9. What occurred in the United States in the 1930s? | The Great Depression. This Economic Depression was not isolated to just America, it was even worse in Europe and Germany had it among the worst. | 10. What kind of culture did the Jews have? | They were a minority culture inside of the majority culture of Germany. They often lived in their own community with their own language. They were physically different and therefore identifiable. | 11. What was the atmosphere of Germany between WWI and WWII? | Germany was economically depressed and angry because of the Treaty of Versailles. |
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