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. If it punctures your skin, you can “Get It?” “It” being infectious diseases including… | AIDS, tetanus, hepatitis | 2. It represents a life-saving star that shines the brightest during the worst moment in a sick or injured person’s life and it stands for six things. | Star of Life: Detection, Reporting, Response, On scene care, Care in transit, Definitive care | 3. As it relates to the Chain of Infection, an infection must start with a cause and the cause is usually a microorganism… | Causative agent | 4. A set of rules/procedures used in healthcare to reduce the risk of transmission of blood-borne and other pathogens. | Standard precautions | 5. When it comes to coughing and sneezing with possible transmission of airborne pathogens, such as the influenza virus, how does “Henry” advise us to cough and sneeze? | Do not cough or sneeze into your hands, use the inside of your arm by the elbow | 6. A few can be pathogenic and a source of infection, but many are not harmful to others. Classified under the kingdom of Monera as a prokaryote having no nucleus or other membrane-bound organelles. Who am I? | Bacteria | 7. They say “chicken noodle soup is good for the soul,” especially when you are ill from an infection. But, in fact, eating just 1 cup gives you over 1100 milligrams or ½ teaspoon of … | Salt (research the answer 2300, 1500) | 8. Infecting you by shaking your hand directly or indirectly by drinking from your cup --> “Think _____________…” | Mode of Transition (think Action) | 9. A unique organism capable of causing infection. Usually unicellular with a nucleus. Shares unique characteristics of plants, animals, and even fungi. Who am I? | Protists | 10. Pathogens will enter and cause infection --> “Think ____________…” | Portal of Entry (think Body System) | 11. Smallest of all microorganisms capable of causing deadly infections. Must have a host to form new microorganisms. To do so, must carry out attachment, penetration, uncoating, genetic replication, and release.Who am I? | Virus | 12. As it relates to the Chain of Infection, it is waiting there to cause infection and “there” could be living or non-living… | Reservoir | 13. If you are already infected, this link in the Chain of Infection does not pertain to you --> “Think of those at risk…” | Susceptible host | 14. I can be a cause of infection. I have no chlorophyll, so I must feed on organic matter, I can be unicellular or multicellular. Who am I? | Fungi | 15. Getting out and being carried by everything from blood to ice cream --> “Think ________…” | Port of Exit (think Contaminated body fluids or substances) |
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