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. 1. What is the major function of the nervous system? | monitor short time changes in body | 2. 2. What type of neuron takes messages to the brain? | sensory/afferent | 3. 3. What type of neuron takes messages from the brain? | motor/efferent | 4. 4. How can the body elicit a larger response to a stimulus? | more neurons are stimulated | 5. 5. Which ions are moved during repolarization? | K | 6. 6. Which ions are moved during depolarization? | Na | 7. 7. What is the purpose of the myelin sheath? | speeds up messages | 8. 8. What is the cerebrum of the brain? | largest part,conscious thought | 9. 9. Why does the brain have gyri and sulci? | increase surface area of neurons | 10. 10. The brainstem controls what types of function? | breathing, pulse, involuntary actions | 11. 11. What part of brain controls equilbrium? | cerebellum | 12. 12. Why does the brain have the least permeable capillaries in the body? | so important, don't want anything damaging getting into the brain | 13. 13. How many pairs of nerves are located in the spinal cord? | 31 | 14. 14. What is the neuromuscular junction? | Where nerves meet muscles | 15. 15. What is an action that would be controlled by the somatic nervous system? | skeletal muscles | 16. 16. What is an action that would be controlled by the autonomic nervous system? | digestion.heartbeat | 17. 17. Name 3 responses that would be controlled by the sympathetic nervous system? | increased breathing, heartrate, eyesight | 18. 18. Name 3 responses that would be controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system? | salivation, digestion, urination | 19. 19. Why are reflexes faster than normal responses? | no brain involvement | 20. 20. How does the nervous system compare to the endocrine system in maintaining homeostasis? | nervous short, endocrine long |
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