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. Find the place where a marine species likes to rock out | Guitar room | 2. Identify what habitat this species would live in. Use your bodies to create a still image of what this habitat would look like. Take a picture of your groups image using the Ipad camera. | Marine | 3. Find the place where you have a good view of where tertiary consumers like to go to swing and play | grade 2/3 door | 4. Identify 2 producers, 2 decomposers, and 2 consumers that can survive in this biological community and identify their role in this ecosystem. Record your answers on the notes app on the Ipad | worms, trees, grass, | 5. Find the place where wild cranes fly | community room | 6. Draw a picture of a food chain that would involve this animal on the paper provided. THINK: how is a food chain different from a food web? | he | 7. Find the place where animals can come to life and talk like humans | Library | 8. Choose one animal from the table provided and create a list of 3 adaptations this animal has to help it survive in its natural environment. | he | 9. Find the spot where a golden bear and a bison can play in harmony | Gym | 10. Take a picture of one biotic and 1 abiotic item. | picture | 11. Find the spot where younger organisms go to hydrate | grade 4/5 hall | 12. Place the labels on the corresponding image in this picture and take a picture of your completed work. Remember to take the labels off before the next group comes. | labels | 13. Find the place you can call home | Room 108 | 14. What is your role in your ecosystem? Demonstrate 4 ways you interact with your ecosystem using the educreations app to record voice and images. | educreations | 15. Find the spot where organisms of years past line the halls | hallway | 16. Arrange the 5 levels of biological organization from smallest to highest on the bulletin board. Take a picture of the results. Make sure you shuffle the cards up for the next group. | individual |
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