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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
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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| 1. What is an organism's niche? | a | 2. Where does an organism find it's food, water, and shelter? | a | 3. A population of birds eats a type of beetle that feeds on only one type of plant. If millipedes eat the same plant, but taste terrible to birds enter the ecosystem...what is most likely to occur? | a | 4. Polar Bears have thick fur on top of their skin. How does this adaptation help polar bears survive in cold weather? | a | 5. In order to survive, animals must be supplied with which of the following from their habitat? | a | 6. What is the name for the way an organism makes its living within its habitat? | a | 7. Hyenas cannot hunt larger animals for food. They depend mostly on dead bodies of animals left behind by lions. What is the term that describes the relationship between hyenas and lions? | a | 8. Describe the relationship between a population and a biological community? | a | 9. A particular area can support a finite number of organisms. What happens when the number of a species goes beyond what an can support? | a | 10. What are some reasons that organisms in overpopulated areas struggle to survive? | a | 11. What could cause over population of a species? | a | 12. Which of the following could most easily survive in a saltwater marsh ecosystem...a dolphin, penguin, or crab? | a | 13. Polar bears, seals, and fish living in a cold aquatic environment near the North Pole indicates they share the same...habitat, ecosystem, or population? | a | 14. A species of clownfish lives among sea anemones. The clownfish protects the sea anemone from other fish, while the anemone uses stinging tentacles to protect the clownfish from its predators. What type of symbiotic relationship does this represent? | a | 15. What is a habitat? | a | 16. Barnacles attach to whales and filter food from the water as the whale swims along. The whale is not affected by the barnacle. What type of relationship does this represent? | a | 17. True or False...the requirements necessary for a complete ecosystem include producers, consumers, and decomposers. | a | 18. What type of environment would most animals be nocturnal so that they can keep cool? | a | 19. All organisms that live together in an area make up a community or an ecosystem? | a |
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