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. Buying stocks on credit, or borrowed money is known as what? | Buying on Margin | 2. Up and Down pattern where consumers buy more surplus goods and companies increase production to meet the demand in known as what? | Business Cycle | 3. What were the Radio addresses in which President Roosevelt spoke differently to American People? | Fireside Chats | 4. In the 1920's and 1930's, several European countries moved toward what kind of political system in which the government controls every aspect of citizens lives? | Totalitarianism | 5. A political system in which the "state" or government is seen as more important than the individual? | Fascism | 6. Hitler created a National Socialist Party named what? | Nazi Party | 7. What was the policy of opposing countries fighting against Hitler in the beginning of the 1930's that avoided war? | Appeasement | 8. The U.S. used this strategy in the pacific battles of WWII, where the allied forces took only the most strategically important islands, instead of each Japanese held island? | Island Hopping | 9. What term defines the extermination of an entire group of people? | Genocide | 10. A cold war policy the U.S. developed to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding it's influence around the world is known as what? | Containment | 11. What term is making aggressive accusations without proof? | McCarthyism | 12. The U.S. rushed to build more and more weapons in competition with the Soviet Union. This is known as what? | Arms Race | 13. A willingness to go to the brink of war to oppose communism is known as what? | Brinkmanship |
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