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. Muscles make up approximately 40 percent of total weight | 1 | 2. The heart is the hardest-working muscle in the body | 2 | 3. The gluteus maximus is the body's largest muscle | 3 | 4. The ear contains the smallest muscles in the body alongside the smallest bones | 4 | 5. There are 3 types of muscles in the body Smooth, Skeletal, Cardiac | 5 | 6. Six skeletal muscles around the eye control its movements | 6 | 7. A muscle called the masseter in the jaw is the strongest muscle by weight. It allows the teeth to close with a force of up to 55 pounds on the incisors or 200 pounds on the molars | 7 | 8. Muscles can’t push. They can only pull | 8 |
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