QR Challenge: Animal adaptations

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. What is an adaptation?
2. If you could choose one adaptation, which would you choose?
3. Venom is a ________ adaptation. (fill in the blank space)	Physiological
4. Migration is a ________ adaptation. (fill in the blank space)	Behavioral
5. which is the adaptation where the animal hides in its habitat	Camouflage
6. Name 3 types of adaptations
7. Which adaptations can a domesticated monkey have?(name 2 adaptations)
8. How is the courtships process in birds?	Courtship in birds involves various behaviors and displays to attract a mate.
9. Which adaptations can a human have?(name 4 adaptations)
10. Which animal has a long tongue to take nectar from flowers?	Hummingbird
11. The picture shows two species of snakes with similar colouring; both have yellow, red and black stripes. However, one species is venomous and the other is not. This phenomenon, called mimicry, is common in nature. What advantage does it bring to the false coral to resemble the true coral?	Confuse predators by pretending to be poisonous.
12. Certain species of butterflies of the genus Coligo have rounded spots on their wings that imitate the eyes of birds of prey such as owls in order to be confused with one of these and thus avoid being preyed upon. Accordingly, it can be affirmed that this case corresponds to a..	mimicry

 

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