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 type of reproduction (sexual or asexual) results in offspring that are genetically identical to the parent | asexual | 2. What type of asexual reproduction do bacteria perform | binary fission | 3. Cells go through a period of stages where they grow and reproduce called | cell cycle | 4. The protein that controls the cell cycle is called | cyclin | 5. DNA forms this structure as cells go through division (hint: it's shaped like an X) | chromosome | 6. The center section of a chromosome is called | centromere | 7. Process where the cell's DNA is copied then the nucleus divides is called | mitosis | 8. Phase of mitosis where the nuclear membrane breaks down, spindle fibers form, and chromosomes appear | prophase | 9. Phase of mitosis where the chromosomes are lined up in the middle of the cell | metaphase | 10. Phase of mitosis where the chromosomes are split into sister chromatids | anaphase | 11. Phase of mitosis where the nuclear membrane reforms, chromatids condense, and a cleavage furrow forms | telophase | 12. Cell cycle stage that occurs after mitosis when the cell's cytoplasm splits in two | cytokinesis | 13. Condition that can occur when cells keep replicating and growing uncontrolled | cancer | 14. Meiosis produces sex cells called __________and___________ | sperm and egg | 15. How many cells are produced at the end of meiosis | 4 | 16. Cells that contain 2 sets of chromosomes are called | diploid | 17. Cells that contain 1 set of chromosomes are called | haploid | 18. True or False: Meiosis produces haploid cells | true | 19. What are two ways that meiosis produces cells that are genetically different from each other | crossing over, random line up, segregation | 20. Pairs of chromosomes that have the same size, same shape, and carry the genes for the same traits | homologous chromosomes | 21. Process where a sperm cell enters an egg cell | fertilization | 22. Process where different genes are turned on or off to determine what a cell's function will be | differentiation |
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