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 was Linnaeus's classification system based on? | evolutionary relationships | 2. Which domain contains both the plant and animal kingdoms? | eukarya | 3. The name "Tursiops truncatus" includes which of the following ranks? | genus and species | 4. In contrast to archaebacteria, all eukaryotic organisms: | have cell nuclei | 5. All animals in phylum Chordata share which of the following features? | spines | 6. Place the following taxonomic ranks in order from most specific to least specific. A) Order; B) Phylum C) Family | B,C,A | 7. Lions and house cats share some common features, but can't breed with one another. What can you infer about how they are classified? | They belong to the same family, but different genera and species | 8. The current classification system was devised by: | Linneaus | 9. If two organisms are in the same phylum, they must also be in the same: | kingdom | 10. Which kingdom contains "extremophiles"? | archaebacteria | 11. A dichotomous key is used to: | identify an organism |
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