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. Who was the leader of Germany during WWII? | Adolf Hitler | 2. Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the beginning of WWII? | Neville Chamberlain | 3. In which year is it generally accepted that Hitler died? | 1945 | 4. Where did General Montgomery have a famous victory? | El Alamein | 5. In which year did WWII begin in Europe? | 1939 | 6. What does the abbreviation VE stand for? | Victory in Europe | 7. Which European countries stayed ‘neutral’ during WWII? | Spain, Switzerland and Sweden | 8. The invasion of which country triggered Britain and France to declare war on Germany? | Poland | 9. What was the name of the German airforce? | Luftwaffe | 10. Which of the German concentration camps had the highest death toll? | Auschwitz | 11. Which were the two main RAF aircraft used in the Battle of Britain? | Hawker Hurricane, British Bulldog and Spitfire. | 12. Which Prime Minister did the UK elect during the War? | Winston Churchill | 13. What name do we give to the posters the government made during the war to tell people to do certain things? | Propaganda | 14. What do we call the leaving of cities by children during the war? | Evacuation | 15. What did everyone have to carry in a box during the war? | Gas masks |
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