QR Challenge: Agriscience Microbiology Quiz Review

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What is Microbiology	The study of microorganisms
2. List 4 types of microorganisms microbiology includes	Eukaryotes, Prokaryotes, Viruses, and Prions
3. List 5 ways microbiology affects agriculture	digestion, physiology, diseases, soil science, food safety and sanitation, genetic engineering, food processing, plant and animal science, water quality, environmental sciences
4. What is a disease causing microorganism	Pathogen
5. What does pathogenic mean?	Causing or capable of causing disease
6. What are organisms that grow only in the presence of oxygen?	aerobes
7. What are organisms that grow without the presence of oxygen?	anaerobes
8. What does a eukaryote have that a prokaryote does not?	nucleus
9. Where do we typically see colonies during an experiment?	petri dish
10. What type of microbe is a single celled, prokaryotic organism?	bacteria
11. What type of microbe is a self reproducing agent that can multiply only within cells of host?	virus
12. What type of microbe is a fungi with a network of threads?	mold
13. What type of microbe is a one celled fungus that induces fermentation?	yeast
14. What type of microbe can be single or multi celled and lives by using other organism's nutrients?	parasite
15. What is the shape of bacilli bacteria?	pill
16. What is the shape of cocci bacteria?	circle
17. What is the shape of spirili bacteria?	spiral
18. What two things are necessary for mold growth?	moisture and air
19. Give 2 examples of food made by the process of fermentation.	Pickles, bread, alcohol, sauerkraut
20. What microbe is associated with vaccines?	viruses
21. What color is gram positive?	purple or violet
22. What color is gram negative?	pink

 

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