QR Challenge: 3rd Quarter Review

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. Where in the cell does transcription (going from DNA to RNA) occur?	Nucleus
2. A formula of dead or weakened cells that are injected into the body in order to prevent future infection is known as a:	vaccine
3. What are the building blocks of DNA?	nucleotides
4. Who is credited with discovering the 3-D structure of DNA?	Watson & Crick
5. What process converts mRNA into amino acids?	Translation
6. What is the sequence of classification levels?	Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Genus, species
7. Which Kingdoms contain prokaryotes?	Eubacteria and Archaebacteria
8. What are the 2 most complex Kingdoms?	Plants and Animals
9. Protists are divided into 3 main groups, what are they?	Algae, Protozoa, Fungus-like
10. What were the very first organisms on earth?	Autotrophic bacteria
11. Who created the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?	Charles Darwin
12. What do we call a structure that has developed in 2 unrelated species because they have adapted to the same environment?	Analagous structure
13. The hip bone of a whale is an example of what type of structure?	Vestigial
14. Define a biological species.	2 organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring
15. What does Homo habilis mean?	Handy man
16. Lucy and Selam were fossils of what genus?	Australopithecus
17. What is an example of another primate besides a human?	Gorilla, Chimp, Ape, Monkeys
18. What are the 2 main components of a virus?	Capsid, genome
19. What is an example of a RNA virus?	HIV, flu, rabies
20. Describe the appearance of prokaryotic DNA.	Single, circular strand
21. What do we call rod-shaped bacteria?	bacillus
22. What viral cycle does HIV use?	Lytic cycle
23. What structures do bacteria use to spread antibiotic resistance?	Pili
24. Why don’t antibiotics destroy our body cells?	Our body cells do not have a cell wall
25. What doe we call the filaments that make up the body of a fungus?	Hyphae
26. What are the only unicellular fungi?	Yeasts
27. What is an example of a protist that moves using a pseudopod?	Amoeba
28. What causes Malaria?	The Plasmodium protist

 

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