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QR Challenge: Classifying Life!

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.


B. The lesson:

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!


C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.


Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question

Answer

1. 1. The process of grouping things together based on similarities is called what? look in book pages 14-19
2. 2. What is the purpose of classifying living things? look in book pages 14-19
3. 3. How might you classify a sunflower, a robin, a lizard, a blue jay, and a tree? look in book pages 14-19
4. 4. What animal\'s scientific name is: Perognathus californicus? look in book pages 14-19
5. 5. Explain what binomial nomenclature means? look in book pages 14-19
6. 6. What does the first word in a scientific name represent? look in book pages 14-19
7. 7. What does the second word in a scientific name represent? look in book pages 14-19
8. 8. Give some characteristics of animals found in the genus Felis. look in book pages 14-19
9. 9. Suppose someone told you that a jaguarundi is classified in the same genus as house cats. What characteristics and behaviors do you think a jaguarundi might have? look in book pages 14-19
10. 10. What are the levels of classification? look in book pages 14-19
11. 11. List the characteristics that the organisms share at the kingdom level. look in book pages 14-19
12. 12. How is the organization of time using calendars and clocks similar to the levels of classification of living things? look in book pages 14-19
13. 13. The scientific study of how things are classified are called what? look in book pages 14-19
14. 14. Which level of classification is the most general or broad level? look in book pages 14-19
15. 15. At what level of the levels of classification would both plants and animals be included? look in book pages 14-19
16. 16. Which level of classification contains the most similar organisms? look in book pages 14-19
17. 17. Infer why most of the names in the binomial nomenclature are difficult and hard to read? look in book pages 14-19
18. 18. What is the binomial nomenclature of a marbled cat? look in book pages 14-19
19. 19. How do you correctly write the 2 parts of the binomial nomenclature? look in book pages 14-19
20. 20. What is the advantage of using scientific names instead of using common names, like cat or dog? look in book pages 14-19
21. 21. The scientific study of how living things are classified is called what? look in book pages 14-19

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1.--The-process-of-grouping-things-together-based-on-similarities-is-called-what?

Question 1 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=2.--What-is-the-purpose-of-classifying-living-things?

Question 2 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=3.--How-might-you-classify-a-sunflower,-a-robin,-a-lizard,-a-blue-jay,-and-a-tree?

Question 3 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=4.--What-animal\'s-scientific-name-is:-Perognathus-californicus?

Question 4 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=5.--Explain-what-binomial-nomenclature-means?

Question 5 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=6.--What-does-the-first-word-in-a-scientific-name-represent?

Question 6 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=7.--What-does-the-second-word-in-a-scientific-name-represent?

Question 7 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=8.--Give-some-characteristics-of-animals-found-in-the-genus-Felis.

Question 8 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=9.--Suppose-someone-told-you-that-a-jaguarundi-is-classified-in-the-same-genus-as-house-cats.--What-characteristics-and-behaviors-do-you-think-a-jaguarundi-might-have?

Question 9 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=10.--What-are-the-levels-of-classification?

Question 10 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=11.--List-the-characteristics-that-the-organisms-share-at-the-kingdom-level.

Question 11 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=12.--How-is-the-organization-of-time-using-calendars-and-clocks-similar-to-the-levels-of-classification-of-living-things?

Question 12 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=13.--The-scientific-study-of-how-things-are-classified-are-called-what?

Question 13 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=14.--Which-level-of-classification-is-the-most-general-or-broad-level?

Question 14 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=15.--At-what-level-of-the-levels-of-classification-would-both-plants-and-animals-be-included?

Question 15 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=16.--Which-level-of-classification-contains-the-most-similar-organisms?

Question 16 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=17.--Infer-why-most-of-the-names-in-the-binomial-nomenclature-are-difficult-and-hard-to-read?

Question 17 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=18.--What-is-the-binomial-nomenclature-of-a-marbled-cat?

Question 18 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=19.--How-do-you-correctly-write-the-2-parts-of-the-binomial-nomenclature?

Question 19 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=20.--What-is-the-advantage-of-using-scientific-names-instead-of-using-common-names,-like-cat-or-dog?

Question 20 (of 21)

 



Classifying Life!: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=21.---The-scientific-study-of-how-living-things-are-classified-is-called-what?

Question 21 (of 21)