QR Challenge: Genetics Unit

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

• 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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring	heredity
2. What is a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait	Genes
3. What is the long piece of DNA wound up tightly around proteins; it also carries the genetic information that controls inherited characteristics, and its located in the nucleus	Chromosome
4. What is the reproductive process that involves two parents whose genetic material is combined to produce a new organism, which differs from both parents	Sexual Reproduction
5. What is the reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that is identical to the parent	Asexual Reproduction
6. What are offspring called that are identical to their parent, it is a result of asexual reproduction	Uniform Offspring
7. What are the offspring called that share similar traits with their parents but are not identical, it is a result of sexual reproduction	Diverse Offspring
8. What is a characteristic that an organism can pass onto its offspring through its genes	Trait
9. What is a female sex cell	Egg
10. What is a male sex cell	Sperm
11. What is the control center of the cell that directs the cell's activities and determines the cell's characteristics; it also holds the genetic material of the cell	Nucleus
12. What is the first cell formed when a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell	Zygote
13. What is the process by which a sperm cell fuses with an egg cell in sexual reproduction	Fertilization

 

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