QR Challenge: Great Scientists

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. “Good Morning. I was working on plants in the 1830’s and kept discovering cells in every plant I looked at under my microscope! After much research, I concluded that every plant is made of cells!”	Theodore Schwann
2. “Hello. I am much older than many other scientists. I was working with a very simple microscope when I decided to go out to my pond out back and look at the water through my microscope. When I did that, I found all these little things swimming around! I was amazed that life could be so small!!!”	Robert Hooke
3. “Hi. I really like animals and I am not such a plant person like my botanist friends. I like to study animals and look at their parts under my microscope. One I heard that all plants are made of cells, I did some of my own research and concluded that all animals are made up of cells too!”	Matthias Schlieden
4. “Yo. I am the most famous person when it comes to cells! Why? I am the scientist who decided to name cells what they are. In 1665, I first looked at these small things in the cork, they looked like rooms and so I named them ‘cells’.”	Anton van Leeuwenhoek
5. Who discovered how light works though a prism?	Newton

 

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