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. This structure is responsible for regulating your sleep and wake cycles. | pineal gland | 2. This structure is like the warning system of your car and is responsible for maintaining homeostasis in your body. | hypothalamus | 3. Name a structure in your brain that wraps around it and protects it. | mater | 4. This structure connects the right and left cerebral hemispheres and allows communication between them. | corpus callosum | 5. This structure is responsible for monitoring and coordinating motor behavior and movements. | cerebellum | 6. This lobe of the cerebrum receives and interprets input from the optic pathway. | occipital | 7. This structure relays incoming information to the appropriate areas of the cerebrum. It also plays a central role in alertness and awareness. | thalamus | 8. Together, these form a pathway for impulses to travel from the eye to the occipital lobe. | optic nerves,optic chiasma,optic tracts | 9. This structure helps the regulate the respiratory rhythm. It also bridges the cerebrum and cerebellum and is involved in posture and balance. | pons | 10. This lobe of the cerebrum is responsible for attention and thought, decision making, and language. | frontal lobe | 11. This gland is referred to as the "master gland" because it produces many hormones that signal other endocrine glands in the body. | pituitary gland | 12. This is the largest part of the brain and is responsible for most of our higher level thinking, intelligence, memory, problem solving, producing and understanding language. | cerebrum | 13. This lobe of the cerebrum functions in perception, recognition of objects/faces/understanding language and emotions. | temporal | 14. This lobe of the cerebrum plays an important role in integrating information from our senses to build a picture of our world. It also allows us to respond to our environment. It contains "reference maps" for the body. | parietal | 15. This brain structure is responsible for visual and auditory reflexes. | corpora quadrigemina |
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