QR Challenge: Science Ecosystems

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. Give an example of a herbivore
2. What is an ecosystem?
3. Define a habitat
4. What are 5 needs of living things?
5. List 5 nonliving things
6. How does a producer get their food?
7. How much energy is carried over from each step of a ecological pyramid?
8. Put the following in a food chain...goats, wolves, bacteria, grass
9. Give an example of a predator-prey relationship
10. What is an omnivore?
11. Name one similarity and one difference between decomposers and detrivores
12. What happens to water vapour when is cools?
13. Name one way CO2 is released back into environment
14. What is photosynthesis?
15. Give an example of a small ecosystem in our school yard

 

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