QR Challenge: Taxonomy and Lower Kingdoms

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. Who developed the hierarchal classification system?	Linnaeus
2. What is the two word naming system used in science to name organisms?	binomial nomenclature
3. What is the broadest category in the Linnaean system?	kingdom
4. What is the most specific category in the Linnaean system?	species
5. Which two taxa make up a scientific name?	genus and species
6. Which two kingdoms are prokaryotic?	Archeabacteria and Eubacteria
7. What kingdom is made up of bacteria that live in areas of extreme heat and salt?	Archeabacteria
8. What kingdom is made up of bacteria that are common pathogens?	Eubacteria
9. What is the major difference between Archaebacteria and Eubacteria?	the cell walls of Archaebacteria are made of a unique lipid and Eubacteria are made up of peptidoglycan
10. Which kingdom is made up of organisms with cell wall of chitin and are heterotrophic decomposers?	Fungi
11. What is the form of asexual reproduction in which a single cell splits into two?	binary fission
12. What makes plant-like protists like plants?	cell walls and autotrophic
13. What makes fungus-like protists like fungus?	cell walls of chitin and heterotrophic decomposers
14. What make animal-like protists like animals?	no cell walls and heterotrophs
15. What is the whip-like tail that helps unicellular organisms move around?	flagellum
16. What are the hair-like projections of bacteria that help with movement and conjugation?	pili
17. What are the hair-like projections of protists that help them move around?	cilia
18. How do Archeabacteria and Eubacteria reproduce?	asexually through binary fission
19. What is a cytoplasmic extension that helps a cell slide along in its environment?	pseudopod

 

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