QR Challenge: Cell Cycle Mitosis review

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. Name all of the stages of mitosis in order	Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, cytokinesis
2. How do bacteria reproduce?	binary fission
3. What is the complex of DNA and protein called that forms a chromosome?	chromatin
4. What are the 3 stages of interphase?	G1, S, G2
5. What is the middle part of a chromosome where the two chromatids attach?	Centromere
6. During which phase of the cell cycle does the nucleus divide?	M phase
7. Compared to small cells, large cells have more trouble?	Moving needed materials in and waste products out of the cell
8. The rate at which wastes are produced are by a cell mostly depend on the cell's?	volume
9. The ideal cell size ratio is?	6:1
10. The process by which a cell divides into 2 daughter cells is called?	cell division
11. When during the cell cycle is the cell's DNA replicated?	S phase
12. Which phase does the cell spend most of it's time in?	Interphase, specifically G1
13. The centrioles duplicate in whcih phase?	interphase
14. Which stage does a cleavage furrow form?	cytokinesis
15. Which cells form cell plates during cytokinesis?	plants
16. What is a chromatid?	sister chromatids are chromosomes that have dupplicated during S phase
17. What happens during G1?	growth and normal functions
18. What happens during G2 phase?	final prep for mitosis
19. What happens during prophase?	answers may vary
20. What happens in metaphase?	answers may vary
21. What happens during anaphase?	answers may vary
22. What happens during telophase?	answers may vary
23. What happens during cytokineses?	answers may vary

 

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