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. The ability to be aware of and accept our feelings, rather than deny them, have an optimistic approach to life, and enjoy life despite its occasional disappointments and frustrations | emotional wellness | 2. Achieved through good nutrition, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, and routine examinations and immunizations | physical wellness | 3. Refers to one's ability to interact with people around them. It involves using good communications skills, having meaningful relationships, respecting yourself and others, and creating a support system that includes family members and friends | social wellness | 4. Refers to active participation in scholastic, cultural, and community activities. It also involves assimilating what is learned in the classroom with life experience. Valuing and nurturing creativity, curiosity and lifelong learning | mental and intellectual wellness | 5. Results from living according to values and morals and finding purpose and direction in life. It often includes believing in a divine authority and engaging in religious practices | spiritual health | 6. Involves treating health problems, but also maintaining one's health. It also includes the prevention of health problems | wellness | 7. An alternative therapy in which the skin and muscles are manipulated | massage | 8. How a body reacts to any stimulus that requires a person to adjust to a changing environment | stress | 9. Name 3 things that can decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease | nutritious diet, reducing stress, exercise | 10. Achieved through good nutrition, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, and routine examinations and immunizations. It also includes practicing safety and avoiding harm | physical wellness | 11. Attained by understanding one's feelings and expressing them appropriately | mental and intellectual wellness | 12. Promotes the health of the whole person. It asserts that the health of each part of a person has an effect on the person's total health. It looks at each patient as a unique person and includes treating as well as preventing health problems | holistic health care | 13. Bases the cause of health problems on microorganisms, diseased cells, and aging. It uses medications and technology to treat health problems, and it encourages the prevention of health problems principally through physical wellness | biomedical healthcare | 14. Methods of treatment and prevention that are used in place of biomedical therapies | Alternative therapies | 15. Based on the belief that qi, or energy, flows throughout the body. Qi is controlled by yin, negative energy, and yang, positive energy. Health problems are the result of yin and yang becoming imbalanced and, as a result, qi becomes disrupted. It also includes acupuncture, acupressure, tai chi, herbal remedies, and special diets, maintain balance between yin and yang | Chinese medicine | 16. Based on the Indian philosophy that each person body type made up of the elements air, water, earth, fire, and space. Health problems are the result of these elements becoming imbalanced. This type of medicine uses exercise, yoga, massage, herbal remedies, and minerals to restore balance | Ayurvedic medicine | 17. This type of medicine uses extracts made from plants, animals, and minerals to cause symptoms similar to the health problem being treated. As a result, the immune system is stimulated | Homeopathic medicine | 18. Health problems result from the lack of normal nerve function. Misalignment of the spine puts pressure on spinal nerves. These therapies, including spinal manipulation, massage, and exercise, maintain the position of the spine. Name this type of medicine | Chiropractic medicine | 19. This agency researches alternative and complementary therapies. It offers professional training and educates the public. It promotes the combination of scientifically-proven alternative therapies and biomedical therapies. Name the agency | National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) | 20. The way people choose to live is a major factor in their health. Healthy living depends on a number of factors. Name 5 of them | Good nutrition, Regular physical activity, Adequate sleep, Effective stress management, Access to health care, Safety, Avoiding harmful substances, Protection from bloodborne pathogens | 21. Physical activity includes formal exercise, such as aerobics, weight lifting, and stretching. It also includes any activity that increases people's heart rate, strength, or flexibility. These activities include walking to school or work, taking the stairs, doing housework, gardening, mowing the grass, raking leaves, washing the car, walking the dog, and dancing. How many minutes of activity should people have each day? | At least 20 to 30 total minutes of physical activity each day. | 22. How does a person know if they are getting enough sleep? | People know if they are getting enough sleep if they wake up easily in the morning and are alert all day. | 23. Name 5 things people should do to prevent to prevent injuries? | they should use smoke detectors, use good lighting and railings in stairways, remove things that they can trip over, wear helmets when riding bicycles or motorcycles, and wear seatbelts when traveling in cars. People should also be prepared for emergencies, including learning first aid and CPR and knowing their local emergency telephone numbers. | 24. This term means that people have received pre-HIV test counseling and have given their permission to be tested | Informed consent |
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