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. Organism | Anything that is living | 2. Habitat | An environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce is its _____ | 3. Biotic factor | The parts of an organism’s environment that are living or once living, and interact with the organism are _____ | 4. Abiotic factor | The nonliving things that interact with an organism are called _____ | 5. Species | A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce | 6. Population | The size of a _____ increases if the number of individuals added to the population is greater than the number of individuals leaving the population | 7. Community | All the different populations that live together in an area make up a(n) | 8. Ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things that interact in a particular area make up a(n) _____ | 9. Ecology | The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment | 10. Birth rate | If deer reproduce rapidly, they are increasing the _____ of the area. | 11. Death rate | If foxes arrive in an area and catch and eat a large number of rabbits, the foxes are causing an increase in the _____ of the rabbit population | 12. Immigration | moving into a population | 13. Emigration | A population can decrease due to deaths or _____ | 14. Population density | Three coyotes per square kilometer is an example of | 15. Limiting factor | Water and food are examples of _____ for populations | 16. Carrying capacity | If an area has all the wolves that it can support, the wolf population has reached its _____ | 17. Natural selection | The process of organisms choosing a suitable mate | 18. Adaptation | And features and habits of organisms that help it to survive | 19. Niche | An organism's role in its environment | 20. Competition | The struggle between two organisms to survive | 21. Predation | The hunting of one organism to become the meal of another | 22. Predator | The organism who eat the prey in a predation interaction | 23. Prey | The “eaten” in a predation interaction | 24. Symbiosis | The ways that organisms interact | 25. Mutualism | Both organisms benefit | 26. Commensalism | One organism benefits the other is neither hurt nor harmed | 27. Parasitism | One organism and harmed while the other is helped | 28. Parasite | The organism feeding on another organism for nutrients without killing it | 29. Host | The host that is fed on by a parasite |
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