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. The movement of pollen from the tips of stamen to the sticky tips of pistils is called this? | Pollination | 2. Name 2 insects that help pollinate flowers? | bees and butterflies | 3. This is the bottom part of the pistil in which seeds form. | ovary | 4. This is the inner part of the ovary that contains an egg. | ovule | 5. This is the combination of sperm from a pollen grain with an egg to form a seed. | fertilization | 6. What do you call the tiny part of a seed that can grow into a new plant? | embryo | 7. Name the two types of seeds. | monocot seeds and dicot seeds | 8. This type of seed has one seed leaf and stored food outside the seed leaf. | monocot seed | 9. This type of seed has two seed leaves that contain stored food. | dicot seed |
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