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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What is the autosomal disorder that causes flattened facial features and mild mental retardation? | Down's Syndrome or Trisomy 21 | 2. What is the sex disorder that results in a male having slightly more female characteristics? | Klinefelter's Syndrome or XXY Syndrome | 3. What is the name of chromosomes #1-22? | autosomal chromosomes | 4. What is the main cause of chromosomal abnormalities? | nondisjunction | 5. What is it called when someone has 3 copies of a chromosome? | trisomy | 6. What phase does nondisjunction typically occur in? | anaphase | 7. What is the sex disorder that is usually associated with sexual predators and violent offenders? | XYY Syndrome | 8. Neck webbing, short stature, and sterility in females is a result of what disorder? | Monosomy X or Turner's Syndrome | 9. What is it called when someone has only 1 copy of a chromosome? | monosomy | 10. A small deletion that occurs on chromosome 7 results in what autosomal disorder? | William's Syndrome | 11. Cri du chat is a partial deletion that occurs on which chromosome? | 5 | 12. What is the autosomal disorder that results in cleft lip and/or cleft palate in children? | Edward's Syndrome or Trisomy 18 | 13. What is the autosomal disorder that usually results in polydactyly? | Trisomy 13 or Patau's Syndrome |
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