QR Challenge: Organism and Environment Vocab

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. The farthest northern habitat	Arctic
2. The farthest southern habitat	Antarctica
3. A structure or behavior that helps an organism survive	Adaptation
4. Surroundings and conditions in which an organism lives	Environment
5. All organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time	Population
6. The shape, color, or pattern of an animal that helps it blend in with its surroundings	Camouflage
7. The path of food energy from one organism to another	Food Chain
8. An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms	Consumer
9. An organism that makes its own food	Producer
10. The environment where an organism lives	Habitat
11. A characteristic that is passed from parents to their offspring	Inherited Traits
12. A behavior that an animal develops by observation	Learned Behavior
13. The stages of growth and development that an organism goes through.	Life Cycle
14. A living thing.	Organism
15. An animal that is hunted, caught and eaten by another animal	Prey
16. An animal that hunts, catches and eats other animals	Predator
17. To die	Perish
18. To grow strong and healthy	Thrive

 

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