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. What type of cells is this organelle found in only? | Plant | 2. What is the key adjective that describes how the cell allows certain molecules in and out? | Permeable | 3. What is the main material stored in the nucleus? | DNA | 4. What is the form of energy that cells ultimately use? | ATP | 5. The sheet refers to the ER as the “_____” of the cell. | Powerhouse | 6. Name the secretary in the office. ____ | Garcia | 7. The card describes ribosomes as a small ____on which proteins are made. | 8. What government institution did the card compare the Golgi to? | Postoffice | 9. What color do chloroplasts make a plant look like? | green | 10. In plants, the vacuole can take over ________% of the cell’s volume. | 90% | 11. How does the lysosome destroy wastes/invaders? | by digesting them | 12. What material is the cytoskeleton made of? | strands of protein |
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