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. 24 October | Red Guards take over important locations in Petrograd, such as telephone exchange, railway stations and government buildings | 2. 25 October | Kerensky leaves the city and Red Guards control most of the city | 3. 26 October | Provisional Government meets in the Winter Palace and a contingency of Red Guards arrest members of the Provisional Government. Lenin also issues the Decree on Peace which urges an immediate ceasefire and treaty along with the Decree on Land calling for the abolition of private ownership. | 4. 27 October | Second All Russian Congress of Soviets debates the validity of the Bolshevik Revolution. Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries condemn the Bolshevik's actions. | 5. November 3 | Bolsehviks take control of Moscow |
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