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.
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1. What can plants be used for? | 2. Give an example of an essential oil. | 3. Explain the process of digestion using key words, mouth, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, enzymes, blood, waste products. | 4. Give a definition of a carbohydrate. | 5. Graham was given 3 bottles of white powder. One is glucose, one is starch and one is sucrose but the labels have fallen off. When he carried out an iodine test, the white powder from bottle B changes the iodine from brown to blue black. When he put each into a test tube with Benedict solution, powder A turned from blue to brick red. Identify the powders A, B and C. | 6. Name the process used to extract essential oils. | 7. Give an example of a plant as a fuel. | 8. Glucose is very soluble in water, starch does not dissolve in water. In terms of molecular size explain why glucose is soluble but starch is insoluble. | 9. Give an example of a fruit that is used to make an alcoholic beverage. | 10. What alcoholic drink can be made from apples? | 11. What is the common name for sucrose? | 12. Give the definition of an enzyme. | 13. Give an example of a plant as a food. | 14. Describe the process of fermentation. | 15. What does morphine come from? | 16. Give the equation for fermentation. | 17. Why can we not produce alcoholic drink with a high percentage of alcohol. | 18. What is the active ingredient in willow bark. | 19. What alcoholic drink can be made from potatoes? | 20. What do we do with alcoholic drink to increase the alcohol concentration? | 21. What is the formula for glucose. | 22. Name a medicine that comes from a plant and name the active ingredient. | 23. Apart from as a beverage give a use for alcohol. | 24. Name the process in which plants make food using the energy from the sun? | 25. What is the process by which animal take energy from their food. |
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