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.
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1. 1. _____ occurs when two or more living things need the same limited resources | competition | 2. 2. A way that two different living things can help each other is _____. | symbiosis | 3. 3. A bird might _____ to claim and defend its territory. | fight, squawk, spread its wings | 4. 4. A(n) _____ is a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment. | adaptaion | 5. 5. Plants release oxygen into the environment through a process called _____. | photosynthesis | 6. 6. Name something that people create from plant material. | accept any reasonable answer | 7. 7. After a plants is fertlized, the plant produces_____. | fruit | 8. 8. Name two things that animals get from plants. | food, oxygen, shelter | 9. 9. Name something that plants get from animals. | seed dispersal, pollination | 10. 10.Name two ways that plants can attract animals | smell, shape, color |
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