QR Challenge: ULNE Ecosystems Vocabulary

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. environmentall living and nonliving things surrounding an organism	environment
2. a community and its physical environment together	ecosystem
3. all the individuals of the same kind living in the same ecosystem	population
4. all the populations of the same kind living in the same ecosystem	community
5. A living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food	producer
6. A living thing that don’t make it’s own food and must eat other living things	consumer
7. An animal that eats only plants, or producers	herbivore
8. An animal that eats only other animals	carnivore
9. An animal that eats both plants and other animals	omnivore
10. A living thing that feeds on the wastes of plants and animals	decomposer
11. An environment that meets the needs of an organism	habitat
12. the role of an organism in its habitat	niche
13. A series of organisms that depend on one another for food	food chain
14. Consumers that are eaten by predators	prey
15. A consumer that eats prey	predator
16. A group of food chains that overlap	food web
17. A diagram showing how much energy is passed from one organism to the next in a food chain	energy pyramid
18. describes a living part of an ecosystem	biotic
19. describes a nonliving part of an ecosystem	abiotic

 

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