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. Photosynthesis | The process by which a cell captures the energy of sunlight and uses it to make food | 2. Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food | 3. Heterotroph | an organism that cannot make its own food | 4. Chlorophyll | The main pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants | 5. Chloroplast | colored chemical compounds that absorb light | 6. Producer | Organisms that make their own food | 7. Consumer | Organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms | 8. Herbivore | Consumers that eat only plants | 9. Carnivore | Consumers that eat only animals | 10. Omnivore | Consumers that eat both plants and animals | 11. Scavenger | Consumers that feed on the bodies of dead organisms | 12. Decomposer | Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the environment | 13. Food chain | series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy | 14. Food web | A series of interacting food chains | 15. Energy pyramid | The movement of energy through a food chain/web (the most is at the PRODUCER level) | 16. Evaporation | The process by which liquid changes to gas | 17. Condensation | The process by which a gas changes to a liquid | 18. Precipitation | The collection of water molecules that fall to the earth | 19. Biome | group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms | 20. Climate | limits the species of plants that can grow in an area | 21. Desert | hot in daytime, cool or cold at night; very dry; organisms are | 22. Rain forest | warm temperatures do not vary much throughout the year; | 23. Grassland | receives between 25 and 75 centimeters of rain each year; | 24. Savanna | Grassy plain tropical and subtropical areas | 25. Deciduous Forest | warm summers, cold winters; receives at least 50 cm of | 26. Boreal forest | warm, rainy summers; very cold winters with heavy snow; trees produce cones with seeds that are eaten by many animals | 27. Coniferous Tree | bears cones and needles | 28. Tundra | extremely cold winters, warmer summers; windy; very dry; no trees, only low-growing plants | 29. Permafrost | Permanently frozen soil |
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