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. Go to cafeteria microwave | Good luck | 2. Give an example of a heterozygous genotype.Go to trophy case | Tt | 3. A Tt man mates with a tt woman. What is the probability they will have a short child. Go to room 705 & look under chair # 19 | 50% | 4. A farmer crosses a tomatoe plant that is resistance to disease with a tomatoe plant that grows in dry conditions. What type of selective breeding is this? Go to 7th grade teacher workroom | hybridization | 5. The results of a punnette sqare are Hh, Hh, hh, hh. One parent is hh what is the genotype of the other parent. Go to Mr. Silinskis office | Hh | 6. What type of selective breeding would involve crossing 2 purebred german shepards. Go to computer lab 1 | inbreeding | 7. Who is the Father of Genetics. Go to main entrance | mendel | 8. If a Tt person is crossed with a Tt person what is the probability their offspring will be purebred? Go to media center window | 75% | 9. What do you call the letters used to represent your traits? Go to locker # 268 combo 19-09-41 | Alleles | 10. What is the study of heredity? Go to concession stand | Genetics | 11. A cat has 50 chromosomes in their body cells, how many chromosomes are in their sex cells? Go to Room 711 | 25 | 12. How many parents are required for asexual reproduction? Go to Locker #270 combo 49-07-31 | one | 13. A cow has 25 chromosomes in their sex cells, how many chromosomes will be in their body cells? Go to room 731 | 50 | 14. Which statement is True: A. Genes are located inside chromosomes or B. chromosomes are located inside of genes. go to 7th grade water fountain | A | 15. A heterozygous brown haired man marries a blonde woman. The have 4 kids. How many kids will have blonde hair? You are done- Go back to room 705 & turn in your answers | 2 |
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