QR Challenge: Cell Organelles

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. Which cell feature is responsible for making proteins?	Ribosomes
2. What is the name of the jelly-like substance that is inside the cell?	Cytoplasm
3. What cell feature is responsible for powering the cell?	Mitochondria
4. Where in the cell does DNA replication take place?	Nucleus
5. What is one major feature that plant cells have that animal cells do not?	Cell Wall
6. What cell feature contains digestive enzymes which breaks things down?	Lysosome
7. Which cell feature processes proteins?	GolgiBodies
8. Which cell feature transports ribosomes?	ER Endoplasmic Reticulum
9. The plant cell structure where photosynthesis takes place is called..	Chloroplast
10. What cell feature is responsible for storing water?	Vacuole

 

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