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. Animalia is an example of this | Kingdom | 2. Chordata is an example of this | Phylum | 3. Mammal is an example of this | Class | 4. Carnivora is an example of this | Order | 5. Binomial name has these two words | Genus species | 6. A group of similar organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile young | Species | 7. Term used to describe Panthera, in Panthera tigris? | Genus | 8. Organisms which are unicellular and have NO nucleus? | Prokaryotes | 9. Organisms which are unicellular and have a nucleus? | Protoctista | 10. Vertebrate with gills, fins, wet scales, external fertilisation | fish | 11. Vertebrate with smooth skin, lungs or gills, external fertilisation | amphibian | 12. Vertebrate with dry scaly skin, eggs with hard shell, internal fertilisation | reptile | 13. Vertebrate with wings, feathers, eggs with hard shell, internal fertilisation | bird | 14. Vertebrate with hair/fur on body, give birth to live young, feed young on milk, internal fertilisation | mammal | 15. The infertile offspring that occurs when two different species breed or reproduce | hybrid | 16. The result if a species fails to adapt to its environment? | extinction | 17. Adaptation may be necessary as a result of.. | increased competition | 18. Examples of adaptation for cold conditions | insulation fat or fur | 19. Heat loss reduction | small surface area to volume | 20. Greasy coat | waterproofing | 21. Colour of fur | camouflage | 22. Stop plant being blown by wind | close to ground | 23. Reduce water loss | small leaves | 24. Protection from predators | thick layer of bacteria | 25. Differences within a species | variation | 26. Variation is due to our parents | inherited variation | 27. Variation is due to upbringing and the environment we live in | environmental variation | 28. Blood group, Natural eye colour, Natural hair colour are examples of | inherited only | 29. Height, Weight are examples of.. | Both inherited and environmental | 30. Type of variation shown by height, weight, foot length | continuous | 31. Type of variation shown by eye colour, gender, blood group | discontinuous | 32. Type of distribution shown by variation which is continuous, assuming a large enough sample | normal | 33. Different forms of the same gene | alleles | 34. Characteristics of the ___________ allele will develop if the allele is present on one or both chromosomes in a pair | dominant | 35. Characteristics of the ___________ allele will develop if the allele is present on both chromosomes in a pair | recessive | 36. Letter used to represent a dominant allele | large/capital | 37. Letter used to represent a recessive allele | small/lowercase | 38. Pair of allele letters | genotype | 39. Pair of alleles with the two dominant or two recessive alleles | homozygous | 40. Pair of alleles with one dominant and one recessive alleles | heterozygous |
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