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 does Renaissance mean? | rebirth | 2. What was the Reformation and how did it affect medical progress? | challenge to Catholic Church, more people willing to question Galen | 3. How are the factors of art and printing linked? | accurate drawings printed in books | 4. Who were three key medical pioneers of the Renaissance? | Vesalius, Harvey & Pare | 5. Give an example of one of Galen’s mistakes corrected by Vesalius. | jawbone one bone not two | 6. What was cautery? | using a hot iron or boiling oil to treat a wound | 7. What was in Paré’s ointment? | egg yolk, rose oil, turpentine | 8. Which animals did Harvey use in his experiments and why? | frogs, cold-blooded, slow heartbeat | 9. What did people think caused disease during the Renaissance? (3 examples) | God, miasma, four humours | 10. How did people treat disease during the Renaissance? (2 examples) | bleeding, purging | 11. What were the symptoms of smallpox? | fever, pus | 12. What was the technique of inoculation? | mild dose of smallpox to prevent serious dose | 13. Who developed the use of inoculation after visiting Turkey? | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 14. What was one of the dangers of inoculation? | might get a severe dose of smallpox | 15. Who was Edward Jenner? | doctor from Gloucestershire | 16. What happened to Edward Jenner when he was eight years old? | inoculated against smallpox | 17. What was the story involving milkmaids? | cowpox prevented smallpox | 18. Why did Jenner call his discovery ‘vaccination’? | vacca = Latin for cow | 19. What happened in 1852? | vaccination became compulsory | 20. Why did some people oppose vaccination? | Jenner did not know why it worked | 21. Who published his germ theory in 1861? | Louis Pasteur |
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What did people think caused disease during the Renaissance? (3 examples)&choe=UTF-8
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How did people treat disease during the Renaissance? (2 examples)&choe=UTF-8
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What were the symptoms of smallpox?&choe=UTF-8
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What was the technique of inoculation?&choe=UTF-8
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Who developed the use of inoculation after visiting Turkey?&choe=UTF-8
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What was one of the dangers of inoculation?&choe=UTF-8
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Who was Edward Jenner?&choe=UTF-8
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What happened to Edward Jenner when he was eight years old?&choe=UTF-8
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What was the story involving milkmaids?&choe=UTF-8
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Why did Jenner call his discovery ‘vaccination’?&choe=UTF-8
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What happened in 1852?&choe=UTF-8
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Why did some people oppose vaccination?&choe=UTF-8
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Who published his germ theory in 1861?&choe=UTF-8
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