QR Challenge: Turning points - Biology

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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

Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa ) onto their mobile devices
Bring these devices into the lesson.

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. Who invented vaccinations?	Jenner
2. What disease did the first vaccine prevent?	Smallpox
3. Who discovered antibiotics?	Fleming
4. What is the correct scientific term for 'Superbugs'?	Antibiotic resistant bacteria
5. What does DNA stand for (you need to spell it correctly!	Deoxyribonucleic acid
6. How do we describe the shape of DNA?	Double Helix
7. What holds the two strands of DNA together?	Hydrogen bonds
8. What are the names of the 4 bases in DNA?	A, T, C, G
9. How do the bases pair up?	A and T, C and G
10. Which scientist produced the first X ray of DNA?	Franklin
11. Watson and Crick are credited with the discovery of DNA. What are their first names?	I can't remember
12. Where do you find DNA in a cell?	Nucleus
13. How many pairs of chromosomes does a human have?	23
14. What do you call parts of DNA that code for a specific characteristic?	Gene
15. In what year did scientists manage to sequence the 'human genome'?	19 something