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. In living organisms, mutations happen at a rate of 1 per every ___ cell replication: A. 10 million, B. 20 million, C. 50 thousand, D. 1 trillion | A. 10 million | 2. How many types of structural chromosomal mutations are there? A. 5, B. 10, C. 3, D. 1 | A. 5 (deletion, duplication, translocation, inversion, and insertion) | 3. What kind of mutation leaves a chromosome with a missing piece? A. Insertion, B. Inversion, or C. Deletion | C. Deletion | 4. Which disorder is caused by deletion? A. Down Syndrome, B. Cri du chat, C. Cancer | B. Cri du chat | 5. What is the cause of Cri du chat syndrome? A. deletion in chromosome 2, B. deletion in small arm of chromosome 3, C. deletion in small arm of chromosome 5 | C. deletion in small arm of chromosome 5 | 6. How is Cri du chat diagnosed? A. diagnosed at birth, B. through chromosomal study, C. both A and B | C. Both A and B | 7. Most cases of Cri du chat are: A. insect bites, B. passed down from family, C. human contact, D. random mutations | D. Random mutations | 8. Cystic Fibrosis is: A. a heart disease, B. a lung disease, C. a learning disability, D. a development disorder | B. a lung disease | 9. Cystic Fibrosis affects every 1 out of _____ newborns. A. 3,000, B. 4,000, C. 1,000 | A. 3,000 | 10. About 1 in ____ people is a carrier of Cystic Fibrosis. A. 50, B. 100, C. 25, D. 15 | C. 25 | 11. Huntington’s disease is a fatal genetic disorder that causes: A. heart failure, B. brain cell breakdown, C. muscular weakness | B. Brain cell breakdown | 12. True or False? Everyone has the gene that causes Huntington’s disease. | True. Everyone carries it, but only those that inherit the expansion of the gene will develop Huntington’s. | 13. Huntington’s can be roughly divided into __ stages. A. 3, B. 4, C. 5 | A. 3 | 14. Thalassemia is an inherited ______ disorder. A. heart, B. lung, C. blood, D. brain | C. Blood | 15. True or False? Thalassemia is characterized by more hemoglobin and more red blood cells than normal. | False, There is less hemoglobin and fewer red blood cells. | 16. Thalassemia is caused by mutations in the cells that make _______. A. ceruloplasmin, B. hemoglobin, C. lipids | B. Hemoglobin | 17. Marfan syndrome is: A. inherited, B. contracted, C. from Mars | A. Inherited | 18. Marfan syndrome is a _______ disease. A. lung, B. blood, C. skin, D. heart | D. heart | 19. There are less than ______ cases of Marfan diagnosed in the U.S. per year. A. 15, B. 300, C. 200,000, D. 45,000 | C. 200,000 | 20. True or False? Most people with Marfan syndrome are dwarfish in stature and have very short limbs. | False. People with Marfan tend to be very tall and thin with long arms. |
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