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. Dendrites are branching extensions of what? | ???? | 2. What is the function of the dendrite? | ???? | 3. What is the longest part of a neuron carrying messages to a leg muscle? | ???? | 4. In transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal travels from what part of a single neuron? | ???? | 5. The speed at which a neural impulse travels is increased when the axon is encased by what? | ???? | 6. A brief electrtical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron is called the what? | ???? | 7. The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse called the what? | ???? | 8. Increasing excitatory signals above the threshold for neural activation will not affect the intensity of an action potential which indicates that a neuron's reaction is what? | ???? | 9. A synapse is a what? | ???? | 10. The chemical messengers released into the spatial junctions between neurons are called what? | ???? | 11. Neurotransmitters are released from the knoblike terminals at the end of the what? | ???? | 12. Reuptake refers to what? | ???? | 13. Transferring messages from a motor neuron to a leg muscle requires the neurotransmitter known as what? | ???? | 14. Endorphins are known as what? | ???? | 15. The lack of pain is most likely caused by the release of what? | ???? | 16. Schizophrenia is most closely linked with excess receptor activity for which neurotransmitter? | ???? | 17. An undersupply of serotonin is most closely linked to what? | ???? | 18. A drug that mimics the effects of a particualr neurotransmitter is called a what? | ???? | 19. Curare is a paralyzing poison that functions as a what? | ???? | 20. The two major divisions of the nervous system are the central and the _____ nervous systems. | ???? | 21. The central nervous system consists of what? | ???? | 22. Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to muscles in your hands by which division of the nervous system? | ???? | 23. For you to experience the pain of a sprained ankle, what must first relay incoming pain messages from your ankle to your spinal cord? | ???? | 24. Neurons that function within the brain and spinal cord are called what? | ???? | 25. Which neurons enable you to grasp objects by relaying outgoing messages to the muscles in your arms and hands? | ???? | 26. The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs is called the what? | ???? | 27. Which division of the autonomic nervous system arouses the body and mobilizes its energy in stressful situations? | ???? | 28. Physical reactions such as decreasing blood pressure and heart rate are most directly regualted by which system? | ???? | 29. The part of the central nervous system that carries information from your senses to your brain and motor-control information to your body parts is the what? | ???? | 30. In a tragic accident, Andrew damaged his spinal cord. As a result, his legs were paralyzed. His injury was located in which system? | ???? | 31. Hormones are the chemical messengers of the what? | ???? | 32. Endocrine glands secrete hormones directly into what? | ???? | 33. The gland that serves as sort of a master gland of the endocrine system is the what? | ???? | 34. Short stature is probably influenced by the lack of a growth hormone produced by which gland? | ???? | 35. The ovaries in females and the testes in the males are part of which system? | ???? |
Dendrites are branching extensions of what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 35)
What is the function of the dendrite?&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 35)
What is the longest part of a neuron carrying messages to a leg muscle?&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 35)
In transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal travels from what part of a single neuron?&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 35)
The speed at which a neural impulse travels is increased when the axon is encased by what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 35)
A brief electrtical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron is called the what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 35)
The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse called the what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 35)
Increasing excitatory signals above the threshold for neural activation will not affect the intensity of an action potential which indicates that a neuron's reaction is what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 35)
A synapse is a what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 35)
The chemical messengers released into the spatial junctions between neurons are called what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 35)
Neurotransmitters are released from the knoblike terminals at the end of the what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 35)
Reuptake refers to what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 35)
Transferring messages from a motor neuron to a leg muscle requires the neurotransmitter known as what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 35)
Endorphins are known as what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 35)
The lack of pain is most likely caused by the release of what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 35)
Schizophrenia is most closely linked with excess receptor activity for which neurotransmitter?&choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 35)
An undersupply of serotonin is most closely linked to what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 35)
A drug that mimics the effects of a particualr neurotransmitter is called a what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 18 (of 35)
Curare is a paralyzing poison that functions as a what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 19 (of 35)
The two major divisions of the nervous system are the central and the _____ nervous systems.&choe=UTF-8
Question 20 (of 35)
The central nervous system consists of what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 21 (of 35)
Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to muscles in your hands by which division of the nervous system?&choe=UTF-8
Question 22 (of 35)
For you to experience the pain of a sprained ankle, what must first relay incoming pain messages from your ankle to your spinal cord?&choe=UTF-8
Question 23 (of 35)
Neurons that function within the brain and spinal cord are called what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 24 (of 35)
Which neurons enable you to grasp objects by relaying outgoing messages to the muscles in your arms and hands?&choe=UTF-8
Question 25 (of 35)
The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs is called the what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 26 (of 35)
Which division of the autonomic nervous system arouses the body and mobilizes its energy in stressful situations?&choe=UTF-8
Question 27 (of 35)
Physical reactions such as decreasing blood pressure and heart rate are most directly regualted by which system?&choe=UTF-8
Question 28 (of 35)
The part of the central nervous system that carries information from your senses to your brain and motor-control information to your body parts is the what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 29 (of 35)
In a tragic accident, Andrew damaged his spinal cord. As a result, his legs were paralyzed. His injury was located in which system?&choe=UTF-8
Question 30 (of 35)
Hormones are the chemical messengers of the what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 31 (of 35)
Endocrine glands secrete hormones directly into what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 32 (of 35)
The gland that serves as sort of a master gland of the endocrine system is the what?&choe=UTF-8
Question 33 (of 35)
Short stature is probably influenced by the lack of a growth hormone produced by which gland?&choe=UTF-8
Question 34 (of 35)
The ovaries in females and the testes in the males are part of which system?&choe=UTF-8
Question 35 (of 35)
