QR Challenge: Endocrine System Treasure Hunt Generator

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Blood plasma. High: stress, adrenal cortical hypofunction, pituitary -oma. Low: adrenal neoplasms, Cushing’s syndrome.	corticotropin-releasing factor
2. Blood test for sugar in bloodstream. NPO after midnight. 100–125 mg/dl prediabetes. 126 mg/dl diabetes mellitus. This test has two names.	fasting blood sugar (FBS), fasting blood glucose (FBG)
3. Interval blood sugar test, eat lot glucose. Accurate. Diagnoses mellitus. 140–199 mg/dl prediabetes. 200 mg/dl + diabetes mellitus.	glucose tolerance test (GTT)
4. Monitor blood sugar levels. 5.0-5.5% normal. Lvls of 6.5%+ diabetic, and 6.0%-6.5% high risk for diabetes. This test has five names.	Hb A1C, glycated hemoglobin, glocosylated hemoglobin, hemoglobin A1C, A1C
5. Urine test for adrenocorticosteroid hormones and to determine adrenal cortical function	17-hydroxycortico-steroids (17-OHCS)
6. Urine test. Result of androgens secreted from adrenal glands and testes. Diagnoses adrenal tumors.	17-ketosteroids (17-KS)
7. Blood serum test. How much iodine attached to serum protein. Indicates thyroid function.	protein-bound iodine (PBI)
8. Thyroid concentrate I. High: hyperthyroidism, cirrhosis, thyroiditis. Low: hypothyroidism.	radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU)
9. Measure tiny amount specific antibodies/antigens. Lab measure hormones, therapeutic drug monitoring.	radioimmunoassay (RIA)
10. Test for thyroid -oma. Patient given radioactive I-131, goes to thyroid, then visualized with scanner.	thyroid scan
11. Blood serum test for thyroxine. High: hyperthyroidism; Low: hypothyroidism.	thyroxine (T4)
12. Blood serum test for calcium. High: hyperparathyroidism; Low: hypoparathyroidism.	total calcium
13. Serum. High: thyrotoxicosis, toxic adenoma, Hashimoto’s struma. Low: starvation, severe infection.	triiodothyronine uptake (T3U)

 

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