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. formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes | Alliance | 2. when a nation owns more lands overseas | Imperialism | 3. Why do countries want to imperialize? | provide cheap raw materials and allow trade, country wants to be superior | 4. the control of government and policies by the armed forces, and a willingness to build up the armed forces and to consider a military solution for foreign relations problems | militarism | 5. A competition between 2 or more nations trying to outdo the other produce the best and the most weapons | Arms race | 6. Race between Britain and Germany | Naval Race | 7. What year did the Bosnian Crisis occur? | 1908 | 8. Which countries were in the Balkan League during the First Balkan Wars? | Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Montenegro | 9. What country was France and Germany disputing about during 1905-1906? | Morocco | 10. What date did Franz Ferdinand get assassinated? | June 28th 1914 | 11. What country declared war first on which country on 29th July? | Austria on Serbia | 12. What were the four assumptions of the Schlieffen Plan? | Russia would take at least 6 weeks to mobilize, France would easily be defeated in 6 weeks, Belgium wouldn’t resist any German attack, Britain would remain neutral |
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