QR Challenge: Communicable Diseases
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. Respiratory disease found in pigs caused by type A flu viruses | swine flu
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2. serious infection of the nervous system transmitted to humans by a bite or scratch from a wild infected animal | rabies
| 3. staph bacteria found on the skin and in the nose of healthy people | MRSA
| 4. disease caused by unprotected sex, contact with infected blood, or via contaminated needles | HIV
| 5. STD that can cause mental illness, death and blindness if left untreated | syphilis
| 6. STD that has discharge from the vagina or penis, and painful or difficult urination | gonorrhea
| 7. STD that can be treated with medication and does not have symptoms. Approximately 75% of women and 50% of men do not have symptoms | chlamydia
| 8. Transmitted to humans and animals through a mosquito bite | west nile
| 9. What is the easiest way to protect yourself from communicable diseases | hand washing
| 10. What is the later stage of HIV | Aids
| 11. Spread person to person when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or shares food and drink | measles
| 12. What is the best protection from the seasonal flu | vaccination
| 13. Infections that has developed a resistance to commonly used class antibiotics. They are more difficult to treat, but usually respond to draining of wounds and/or antibiotics | MRSA
| 14. signs of this communicable disease may not appear for another 8-12 days | measles
| 15. Approximately 1/3 of the world’s population is infected with this | Tuberculosis
| 16. More than 700,000 people in the United States get new cases of this | gonorrhea |
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Respiratory_disease_found_in_pigs_caused_by_type_A_flu_viruses
Question 1 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=serious_infection_of_the_nervous_system_transmitted_to_humans_by_a_bite_or_scratch_from_a_wild_infected_animal
Question 2 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=staph_bacteria_found_on_the_skin_and_in_the_nose_of_healthy_people
Question 3 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=disease_caused_by_unprotected_sex,_contact_with_infected_blood,_or_via_contaminated_needles
Question 4 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=STD_that_can_cause_mental_illness,_death_and_blindness_if_left_untreated
Question 5 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=STD_that_has_discharge_from_the_vagina_or_penis,_and_painful_or_difficult_urination
Question 6 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=STD_that_can_be_treated_with_medication_and_does_not_have_symptoms._Approximately_75%_of_women_and_50%_of_men_do_not_have_symptoms
Question 7 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Transmitted_to_humans_and_animals_through_a_mosquito_bite
Question 8 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_easiest_way_to_protect_yourself_from_communicable_diseases
Question 9 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_later_stage_of_HIV
Question 10 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Spread_person_to_person_when_an_infected_person_coughs,_sneezes,_or_shares_food_and_drink
Question 11 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_best_protection_from_the_seasonal_flu
Question 12 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Infections_that_has_developed_a_resistance_to_commonly_used_class_antibiotics._They_are_more_difficult_to_treat,_but_usually_respond_to_draining_of_wounds_and/or_antibiotics
Question 13 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=signs_of_this_communicable_disease_may_not_appear_for_another_8-12_days
Question 14 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Approximately_1/3_of_the_world’s_population_is_infected_with_this
Question 15 (of 16)
Communicable Diseases: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=More_than_700,000_people_in_the_United_States_get_new_cases_of_this
Question 16 (of 16)
