QR Challenge: Science Ecosystems
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. Give an example of a herbivore |
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2. What is an ecosystem? |
| 3. Define a habitat |
| 4. What are 5 needs of living things? |
| 5. List 5 nonliving things |
| 6. How does a producer get their food? |
| 7. How much energy is carried over from each step of a ecological pyramid? |
| 8. Put the following in a food chain...goats, wolves, bacteria, grass |
| 9. Give an example of a predator-prey relationship |
| 10. What is an omnivore? |
| 11. Name one similarity and one difference between decomposers and detrivores |
| 12. What happens to water vapour when is cools? |
| 13. Name one way CO2 is released back into environment |
| 14. What is photosynthesis? |
| 15. Give an example of a small ecosystem in our school yard | |
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Give_an_example_of_a_herbivore
Question 1 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_an_ecosystem?
Question 2 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Define_a_habitat
Question 3 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_are_5_needs_of_living_things?
Question 4 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=List_5_nonliving_things
Question 5 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_does_a_producer_get_their_food?
Question 6 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_much_energy_is_carried_over_from_each_step_of_a_ecological_pyramid?
Question 7 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Put_the_following_in_a_food_chain...goats,_wolves,_bacteria,_grass
Question 8 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Give_an_example_of_a_predator-prey_relationship
Question 9 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_an_omnivore?
Question 10 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Name_one_similarity_and_one_difference_between_decomposers_and_detrivores
Question 11 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_happens_to_water_vapour_when_is_cools?
Question 12 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Name_one_way_CO2_is_released_back_into_environment
Question 13 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_photosynthesis?
Question 14 (of 15)
Science Ecosystems: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Give_an_example_of_a_small_ecosystem_in_our_school_yard
Question 15 (of 15)