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. All answers can be recorded in a "note" on your device. | 2. What is the type of cell division that will produce two identical cells? | Mitosis | 3. What is the type of cell division that will produce 4 different cells? | Meiosis | 4. What does the term haploid refer to? | n or ½ the cromosome number | 5. What does the term diploid refer to? | 2n or the total number of chromosomes | 6. What type of cells does meiosis occur? | gametes | 7. What type of cells does mitosis occur? | body cells or somatic cells | 8. Name the process that makes each of the cells unique in meiosis. | crossing over | 9. How many divisions occur in mitosis? | 1 | 10. How many divisions occur in meiosis? | 2 | 11. Identical chromosomes that came from the male parent and the felmale parent are called. | homologous |
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