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. What are 2 examples of viral infections that affect the ear? | Mumps and Measles | 2. If you have deaf parents, does that mean you'll be deaf too? | No | 3. Perforation of the eardrum is an example of what cause of deafness? | Trauma | 4. What disease is when a person suffers with vertigo (spinning dizziness), hearing loss which can come and go, tinnitus and a feeling of a blockage in the car? | Meniere's disease | 5. What is Encephalitis? | Inflammation of the brain | 6. When the sensitive hair cells inside our ear become damaged or DIE what type of deafness is occurring? | Age related hearing loss | 7. What is the most common cause of hearing loss? | Noise damage to THE EAR over time | 8. When the blood supply to the brain is cut off or interrupted the hearing is damaged. What disease is occurring? | Stroke | 9. True or False? Exposure to certain chemicals can not cause hearing malfunctions? | False | 10. True or False? Hearing loss and deafness can be passed down through genes? | True |
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