QR Challenge: Ecosystems Vocabulary
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. All the living and nonliving things in an area. | Ecosystem
|
2. The place in an ecosystem where an organism lives. | Habitat
| 3. The group of all the populations in an area. | Community
| 4. The job that an organism has in an ecosystem. | Niche
| 5. An organism that makes its own food. | Producer
| 6. An organism that eats other organisms for energy. | Consumer
| 7. An organism that breaks down other organisms. | Decomposer
| 8. Area that is mainly grasses and plants. | Grassland
| 9. A simple path of energy from one organism to another. | Food Chain
| 10. A network of many food chains. | Food Web
| 11. Plant eater. | Herbivore
| 12. Meat eater. | Carnivore
| 13. Eats both plants and meat. | Omnivore
| 14. A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time. | Population
| 15. The process a plant uses to change sunlight to energy. | Photosynthesis
| 16. A large area of specific plant and animal groups, which are adapted to that particular environment. | Biome
| 17. A continuously occurring process whereby animals inhale oxygen and then exhale carbon dioxide, and plants take in the carbon dioxide and release oxygen. | Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle
| 18. A place where very few plants and animals live because of a lack of water. | Desert
| 19. A place that is very cold, with few animals, and mainly pine forests. | Taiga
| 20. A place with a mild climate and many different species of plants and animals. | Deciduous Forest
| 21. A place that is usually very warm and receives a lot of rainfall. It also has many different layers and a huge variety of plants and animals. | Rain Forest
| 22. A places that is cold, vast, and treeless with low, swampy plains in the far north. | Tundra |
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=All_the_living_and_nonliving_things_in_an_area.
Question 1 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_place_in_an_ecosystem_where_an_organism_lives.
Question 2 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_group_of_all_the_populations_in_an_area.
Question 3 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_job_that_an_organism_has_in_an_ecosystem.
Question 4 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=An_organism_that_makes_its_own_food.
Question 5 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=An_organism_that_eats_other_organisms_for_energy.
Question 6 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=An_organism_that_breaks_down_other_organisms.
Question 7 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Area_that_is_mainly_grasses_and_plants.
Question 8 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_simple_path_of_energy_from_one_organism_to_another.
Question 9 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_network_of_many_food_chains.
Question 10 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Plant_eater.
Question 11 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Meat_eater.
Question 12 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Eats_both_plants_and_meat.
Question 13 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_group_of_organisms_of_one_species_that_live_in_an_area_at_the_same_time.
Question 14 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_process_a_plant_uses_to_change_sunlight_to_energy.
Question 15 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_large_area_of_specific_plant_and_animal_groups,_which_are_adapted_to_that_particular_environment.
Question 16 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_continuously_occurring_process_whereby_animals_inhale_oxygen_and_then_exhale_carbon_dioxide,_and_plants_take_in_the_carbon_dioxide_and_release_oxygen.
Question 17 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_place_where_very_few_plants_and_animals_live_because_of_a_lack_of_water.
Question 18 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_place_that_is_very_cold,_with_few_animals,_and_mainly_pine_forests.
Question 19 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_place_with_a_mild_climate_and_many_different_species_of_plants_and_animals.
Question 20 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_place_that_is_usually_very_warm_and_receives_a_lot_of_rainfall._It_also_has_many_different_layers_and_a_huge_variety_of_plants_and_animals.
Question 21 (of 22)
Ecosystems Vocabulary: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_places_that_is_cold,_vast,_and_treeless_with_low,_swampy_plains_in_the_far_north.
Question 22 (of 22)