QR Challenge: Ecology Quiz
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. 1. places where specific organisms live |
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2. 3. decay dead material to help recycle nutrients |
| 3. 4. ..carnivore is not eaten by anything |
| 4. 6. is a reaction which fixes carbon atoms from carbon dioxide in the air to organic compounds |
| 5. 9. is when living things do not decay fully when they die (due to conditions in the soil) and fossil fuels are formed |
| 6. 11. and oil are examples of fossil fuels |
| 7. 13. are plants which produce food through photosynthesis |
| 8. 14. all the organisms of a particular species found in an ecosystem at any one time |
| 9. 1. only eat plants |
| 10. 2. ...levels are different stages in a food chain |
| 11. 5. pyramids of this show the total mass of organisms in each trophic level |
| 12. 7. a sampling square used to count the number of organisms in a particular habitat |
| 13. 8. is the burning of fossil fuels which releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere |
| 14. 10. ..consumer eats the primary consumer |
| 15. 12. passes carbon atoms already in organic compounds along a food chain | |
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1.-places-where-specific-organisms-live
Question 1 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=3.-decay-dead-material-to-help-recycle-nutrients
Question 2 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=4.-..carnivore-is-not-eaten-by-anything
Question 3 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=6.-is-a-reaction-which-fixes-carbon-atoms-from-carbon-dioxide-in-the-air-to-organic-compounds
Question 4 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=9.-is-when-living-things-do-not-decay-fully-when-they-die-(due-to-conditions-in-the-soil)-and-fossil-fuels-are-formed
Question 5 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=11.-and-oil-are-examples-of-fossil-fuels
Question 6 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=13.-are-plants-which-produce-food-through-photosynthesis
Question 7 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=14.-all-the-organisms-of-a-particular-species-found-in-an-ecosystem-at-any-one-time
Question 8 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1.-only-eat-plants
Question 9 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=2.-...levels-are-different-stages-in-a-food-chain
Question 10 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=5.-pyramids-of-this-show-the-total-mass-of-organisms-in-each-trophic-level
Question 11 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=7.-a-sampling-square-used-to-count-the-number-of-organisms-in-a-particular-habitat
Question 12 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=8.-is-the-burning-of-fossil-fuels-which-releases-carbon-dioxide-into-the-atmosphere
Question 13 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=10.-..consumer-eats-the-primary-consumer
Question 14 (of 15)
Ecology Quiz: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=12.-passes-carbon-atoms-already-in-organic-compounds-along-a-food-chain
Question 15 (of 15)
