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 DNA Replication? | making a copy of DNA | 2. What does A pair with in DNA? | T | 3. What dose C pair with in DNA? | G | 4. What is the complementary DNA sequence to ATCCGGA? | TAGGCCT | 5. What is the purpose of transcription? | to change DNA into RNA | 6. What macromolecule is bunch of amino acids put together? | Proteins | 7. How many strands is DNA? | 2 | 8. How many strands in RNA? | 1 | 9. What is the monomer of DNA(nucleic acids)? | nucleotides | 10. Where does transcription take place? | nucleus | 11. Where does translation take place? | ribosome | 12. What is translation? | RNA to proteins | 13. Transcribe this DNA sequence and find the amino acids AATGGGCGA. | 14. Ermine eat Lemming. What would happen to the Ermine population if the Lemming population decreased? | decrease as well | 15. What is the 10% rule? | only 10 percent is passed on | 16. If global temperatures increase, what will happen to sea level? | it will rise | 17. Name two ways CO2 gets put into the atmosphere. | cellular respiration and fossil fuels | 18. DNA had 100 base pairs and 4 are adenines, how many thymines are there? | 45 | 19. What are the four bases of DNA? | ATGC | 20. What are the four bases of RNA? | AUGC | 21. What is the difference between primary and secondary succession? | 22. What is natural selection and who came up with this idea? | 23. What is the definition of a primary consumer? | 24. If the population of primary consumers decreased, what would happen to the population of producers? | 25. Phytoplankton → zooplankton → lobster → octopus → shark Who does the shark directly get its energy from? | 26. Who has the most energy in an ecological pyramid? | 27. Were prokaryotes or eukaryotes first on the planet? | 28. What is the function of DNA? | 29. What are the three parts of a nucleotide? | 30. Which part of the nucleotide actually codes for the mRNA? | 31. What is another name for a producer? | 32. What is a mutation? | 33. Name two differences between a prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. | 34. Plants are a producer. Zebras eat plants. Hyenas eat zebras. Lions kill hyenas. Make a food chain using this information. | 35. Transcribe and translate the following DNA sequence: CTATATCGAATGGCT |
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