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. Who published the book, On the Origin of Species, outlining his theory of evolution? | Darwin | 2. What is the process by which organisms that are best suited to their environment survive and leave more offspring? | natural selection | 3. What is the term used by Darwin to describe how well an organism can survive and reproduce? | fitness | 4. What is the idea that living species are descended with changes over time from common ancestor? | common descent | 5. What are the structures that are inherited from ancestors but are very small and no longer serve as function? | vestigial structures | 6. Similarities in what molecule of organisms provide evidence of common descent? | DNA | 7. Who was the geologist that initially proposed that the earth was millions of years old? | Lyell | 8. What is the process used by humans to selectively breed organisms to exhibit certain traits? | artificial selection | 9. What type of selection occurs when the average phenotype os favored over either of the extreme phenotypes? | stabilizing | 10. What are the characteristics that increase an organisms ability to survive and reproduce? | adaptations | 11. What type of selection favors BOTH extreme phenotypes over the average phenotype? | disruptive | 12. Who proposed the idea that traits could be acquired during an organism's lifetime and then passed to offspring? | Lamarck | 13. What type of selection favors one extreme form over the other extreme phenotype and the average? | directional | 14. Who was an economist that proposed that overpopulation would lead to struggle and competition? | Malthus | 15. Who had a theory of evolution similar to Darwin's theory but lacked the data to support it? | Wallace |
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What is the process by which organisms that are best suited to their environment survive and leave more offspring?&choe=UTF-8
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What is the term used by Darwin to describe how well an organism can survive and reproduce?&choe=UTF-8
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What is the idea that living species are descended with changes over time from common ancestor?&choe=UTF-8
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What are the structures that are inherited from ancestors but are very small and no longer serve as function?&choe=UTF-8
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Similarities in what molecule of organisms provide evidence of common descent?&choe=UTF-8
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Who was the geologist that initially proposed that the earth was millions of years old?&choe=UTF-8
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What is the process used by humans to selectively breed organisms to exhibit certain traits?&choe=UTF-8
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What type of selection occurs when the average phenotype os favored over either of the extreme phenotypes?&choe=UTF-8
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What are the characteristics that increase an organisms ability to survive and reproduce?&choe=UTF-8
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What type of selection favors BOTH extreme phenotypes over the average phenotype?&choe=UTF-8
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Who proposed the idea that traits could be acquired during an organism's lifetime and then passed to offspring?&choe=UTF-8
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What type of selection favors one extreme form over the other extreme phenotype and the average?&choe=UTF-8
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Who was an economist that proposed that overpopulation would lead to struggle and competition?&choe=UTF-8
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Who had a theory of evolution similar to Darwin's theory but lacked the data to support it?&choe=UTF-8
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