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. The stage of mitosis where chromosomes are first seen | prophase | 2. Cell division occurs in single celled organisms for | reproduction | 3. Cell division occurs in multicellular organisms for | growth and repair | 4. What are the three stages of the cell cycle in the correct order | interphase mitosis cytokinesis | 5. If a body cell of an organism has 32 chromosomes, how many chromosomes are found in the sex cells | 16 | 6. _______________ forms the sex cells that join to form new organisms during sexual reproduction | meiosis | 7. Name the two sex cells | sperm eggs | 8. ___________________ reproduction forms identical offspring | asexual | 9. A form of asexual reproduction where the new organisms starts growing from the outer surface of the parent organism is | budding | 10. __________________ reproduction involves two parents and results in genetically different | sexual |
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