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.
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1. Germany had to accept all blame for starting the First World War, even though many argued that Britain, France and Russia were just as responsible. This was called the War Guilt Clause. | 2. Germany was forced to pay £6.6 billion to the winning countries who had just defeated it. This was called reparations. | 3. Germany was forced to have a small army and a small navy. They were allowed a maximum of 100,000 soldiers and six battleships. Tanks, planes and submarines were completely banned. | 4. Germany had to hand over all its colonies to the winning countries. Colonies are places you control abroad. | 5. Large areas of Germany's own land had to be given up in order to create new countries, such as Poland and Czechoslovakia. | 6. German soldiers were banned from entering the Rhineland - a strategically important area in Germany where they could launch attack or defend themselves. |
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