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. What is Democracy? | various | 2. What type of government does the United States have? | republic | 3. What four things are necessary for a democracy to work? | free elections constitutional government majority rule minority rights citizen participation | 4. Who governed Brazil from 1956-1961? | Juscelino Kubitschek | 5. What President of Brazil was impeached and removed from office? | Dilma Rouseff | 6. What was Mao’s Five Year Plan called? | Great Leap Forward | 7. The Red Guards in China led what uprising? | Cultural Revolution | 8. Who rose to power in Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union? | Putin | 9. Who are the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council? | U.S. China UK Russia France | 10. Who was governing Russia at when the Berlin Wall fell? | Gorbachev | 11. What was Gorbachev’s economic restructuring plan called? | Perestroika | 12. Gorbachev and Reagan signed what treaty in December 1987? | INF | 13. Who replaced Gorbachev as the leader of Russia? | Yeltsin | 14. Who was Mustafa Kemal? | Turkish Nationalist leader | 15. What was the name of the union that fought for workers rights in Poland in the 1980’s? | Solidarity | 16. What two countries became full members of NATO in 1999? | Hungary and Poland | 17. What was the name of Adolf Hitler’s book? | Mein Kampf | 18. What was the German bombardment of London called? | London Blitz | 19. Who was leading Britain through WWII? | Churchill | 20. What event brought the United States into WWII? | Pearl Harbor | 21. What was the largest death camp of WWII? | Auschwitz | 22. What led Irish Nationalists to rebel in Dublin 1916? | Various | 23. What is a sphere of influence? | region a foreign nation controls. | 24. Who were the Boxers in China? | Society of the Harmonious Fists | 25. Who was emperor during the Meiji Period? | Mutsuhito | 26. Who was Pancho Villa? | various | 27. What colony was the “Jewel in the Crown” for Britain? | India | 28. Who were the Bolsheviks? | Various | 29. What was the unsuccessful invasion of Cuba called? | Bay of Pigs | 30. Who took sole responsibility for WWI under the war guilt clause? | Germany |
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