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.
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| 1. Define health. | Health is a state of complete physical, mental/emotional and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. | 2. Define fitness. | Fitness is the ability to meet the demands of the environment. | 3. List the health-related components of physical fitness. | cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility and body composition. | 4. List the skill-related components of physical fitness. | balance, power, speed, agility, co-ordination and reaction-time. | 5. Name one fitness test used to measure cardiovascular endurance. | The Multi-stage Fitness test/The Beep Test/The Harvard Step Test/12 min Cooper Run/Swim, etc. | 6. Name a test that determines reaction time. | The rule drop test. | 7. Outline how you might test muscular endurance. | Sit-up Bleep Test/One-minute Sit-up/press-up test. | 8. How would you test an athletes agility? | Illinois Agility Run Test. | 9. What does the FITT Formula mean? | Frequency- how often you train/exercise/Intensity - how hard you train/exercise./ Time - how long you train/exercise for? and Type - what exercises and training you use. | 10. What are the five principles of training? | SPORT - Specificity - matches the activity and the fitness components being developed / Progression - gradually increasing the level of intensity/ Overload - must train the body harder than usual to see improvement/ Reversibility- use it or lose it / Tedium - there must be variety in sessions to avoid boredom. | 11. List 4 different methods of training. | Continuous Training, Fartlek training, Interval Training, Resistance/Weight training, Circuit training, Plyometric Training, High altitude training, Stretching, Fitness Classes; yoga, aerobics, bodypump, crossfit, spinning, pilates. |
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