QR Challenge: Biome QR Code Activity
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. What is a conifer? | conifers produce seeds in cones
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| | 3. 2. What kinds of animal adaptations are needed to get those seeds out of the cones? | Animals must have specialized beaks,toungues, or hands to be able to remove the seeds.
| 4.
| | 5. 3. Tropical rain forests have more biological diversity than other places on the Earth have. What does this mean? | Biological diversity means that rain forests have more kinds of plants and animals than any other land biome.
| 6.
| | 7. 4. What adaptations do roots of plants in the desert have that allows them to survive with such little water? | shallow widespread roots that grow just under the surface.
| 8.
| | 9. 5. If you visited a savanna you would most likely see what? | scattered clumps of trees and seasonal rains fires and drought.
| 10.
| | 11. 6. List seven land biomes. Which one do you think would be the most difficult to live in and why? | answers may vary
| 12.
| | 13. 7. What biome is so cold that trees don't grow What is the frozen soil called in this biome? | tundra,permafrost
| 14.
| | 15. 8. What biome is East Granby part of?Give 3 examples of this biomes characteristics. | deciduous forest temperature, plants, animals
| 16.
| | 17. 9. What does the word deciduous mean Is this vocabulary word a characteristic of a biome found in East Granb? | to fall, yes
| 18.
| | 19. 10. What biome has an average yearly rainfall of 150 centimeters? | savanna
| 20.
| | 21. 11. What kind of climate is part of the temperate grassland biome? | hot summers and cold winters. |
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1.-What-is-a-conifer?
Question 1 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 2 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=2.-What-kinds-of-animal-adaptations-are-needed-to-get-those-seeds-out-of-the-cones?
Question 3 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 4 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=3.-Tropical-rain-forests-have-more-biological-diversity-than-other-places-on-the-Earth-have.-What-does-this-mean?
Question 5 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 6 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=4.-What-adaptations-do-roots-of-plants-in-the-desert-have-that-allows-them-to-survive-with-such-little-water?
Question 7 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 8 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=5.-If-you-visited-a-savanna-you-would-most-likely-see-what?
Question 9 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 10 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=6.-List-seven-land-biomes.--Which-one-do-you-think-would-be-the-most-difficult-to-live-in-and-why?
Question 11 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 12 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=7.-What-biome-is-so-cold-that-trees-don't-grow-What-is-the-frozen-soil-called-in-this-biome?
Question 13 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 14 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=8.-What-biome-is-East-Granby-part-of?Give-3-examples-of-this-biomes-characteristics.
Question 15 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 16 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=9.-What-does-the-word-deciduous-mean-Is-this-vocabulary-word-a-characteristic-of-a-biome-found-in-East-Granb?
Question 17 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 18 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=10.-What-biome-has-an-average-yearly-rainfall-of-150-centimeters?
Question 19 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 20 (of 21)
Biome QR Code Activity: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=11.-What-kind-of-climate-is-part-of-the-temperate-grassland-biome?
Question 21 (of 21)
