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. Name some different activities a mollusk can perform with its foot. | used for locomotion | 2. What is a Radula used for?2 | Used for cutting and chewing food2 | 3. What are some examples of the phylum Mollusca?3 | Snails, octopuses, squids and oysters3 | 4. Where can molluscs be found?4 | Molluscs can be found in the sea, freshwater4 | 5. How many shells do bivalves have?5 | two5 | 6. How many shells do gastropods have?6 | one6 | 7. What kind of circulatory system do bivalves have?7 | open7 | 8. Do bivavles have a radula?8 | no8 | 9. What type of development do cephalopods have?9 | gills9 | 10. What is the bump on the dorsal edge of a clam shell called?10 | umbo10 | 11. What type of feeders are mollusks?11 | filter11 | 12. True or False: Bivalves are filter feeders?12 | True12 | 13. What is the circulatory fluid in a clam called?13 | hemocoel13 | 14. What is the area above the foot that contains the heart, digestive, excretory, and reproductive organs called?14 | visceral mass14 | 15. What collects and removes the nitrogen waste?15 | kidney15 |
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