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. What is Microbiology | The study of microorganisms | 2. List 4 types of microorganisms microbiology includes | Eukaryotes, Prokaryotes, Viruses, and Prions | 3. List 5 ways microbiology affects agriculture | digestion, physiology, diseases, soil science, food safety and sanitation, genetic engineering, food processing, plant and animal science, water quality, environmental sciences | 4. What is a disease causing microorganism | Pathogen | 5. What does pathogenic mean? | Causing or capable of causing disease | 6. What are organisms that grow only in the presence of oxygen? | aerobes | 7. What are organisms that grow without the presence of oxygen? | anaerobes | 8. What does a eukaryote have that a prokaryote does not? | nucleus | 9. Where do we typically see colonies during an experiment? | petri dish | 10. What type of microbe is a single celled, prokaryotic organism? | bacteria | 11. What type of microbe is a self reproducing agent that can multiply only within cells of host? | virus | 12. What type of microbe is a fungi with a network of threads? | mold | 13. What type of microbe is a one celled fungus that induces fermentation? | yeast | 14. What type of microbe can be single or multi celled and lives by using other organism's nutrients? | parasite | 15. What is the shape of bacilli bacteria? | pill | 16. What is the shape of cocci bacteria? | circle | 17. What is the shape of spirili bacteria? | spiral | 18. What two things are necessary for mold growth? | moisture and air | 19. Give 2 examples of food made by the process of fermentation. | Pickles, bread, alcohol, sauerkraut | 20. What microbe is associated with vaccines? | viruses | 21. What color is gram positive? | purple or violet | 22. What color is gram negative? | pink |
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What is a disease causing microorganism&choe=UTF-8
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What are organisms that grow without the presence of oxygen?&choe=UTF-8
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What does a eukaryote have that a prokaryote does not?&choe=UTF-8
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Where do we typically see colonies during an experiment?&choe=UTF-8
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What type of microbe is a single celled, prokaryotic organism?&choe=UTF-8
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What type of microbe is a self reproducing agent that can multiply only within cells of host?&choe=UTF-8
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What type of microbe is a fungi with a network of threads?&choe=UTF-8
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What type of microbe is a one celled fungus that induces fermentation?&choe=UTF-8
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What type of microbe can be single or multi celled and lives by using other organism's nutrients?&choe=UTF-8
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What is the shape of bacilli bacteria?&choe=UTF-8
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What is the shape of cocci bacteria?&choe=UTF-8
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What is the shape of spirili bacteria?&choe=UTF-8
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What two things are necessary for mold growth?&choe=UTF-8
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Give 2 examples of food made by the process of fermentation.&choe=UTF-8
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What microbe is associated with vaccines?&choe=UTF-8
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What color is gram positive?&choe=UTF-8
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What color is gram negative?&choe=UTF-8
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