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. The office controls the school's activities as the _______ controls the cell's activities. | nucleus | 2. The secretaries in the office help process and create student information as the __________ process and create RNA in the cell. | nucleolus | 3. The floor of the school holds the furniture, lockers, etc. as the __________holds the organelles of the cell. | cytoplasm | 4. The doors of the school control what goes in and out of the cell as the __________ controls what goes in and out of the cell. | cell membrane | 5. The bathrooms are a storage area for waste materials as the ____________ store materials for the cell. | vacuoles | 6. Food is made in the cafeteria of the school as the _________________make food in a plant cell. | chloroplasts | 7. The lights make energy in the school like the ___________ make energy in a cell. | mitochondria | 8. The teachers teach, help, and send students on their way as the ____________ in a cell modifies, sort, and package materials for distribution. | Golgi bodies | 9. The students in a school are the "workers" in a school and make and translate information as in a cell the _______________ read instructions and make proteins. | ribosomes | 10. The hallways in a school transport teachers, students, etc. from one place to another as the ____________ is a network that transports materials within a cell. | endoplasmic reticulum | 11. If there were a fence or gate around the school it would be like the ______ of a plant cell. | cell wall | 12. The custodians in a school clean up the school as the ________ clean up a cell. | lysosomes |
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