QR Challenge: Beginning Biology Terms
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. Usage of the 5 senses to gather information | Observation
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2. Organized series of events used to solve a problem | Scientific Method
| 3. An assumption based on a prior experience | Inference
| 4. A Logo designed to alert you to a specific danger | Safety Symbol
| 5. A testable explanation of a situation | Hypothesis
| 6. A procedure designed to test a hypothesis and collect data | Experiment
| 7. This is used as a standard of comparison in an experiment | Control
| 8. Factors that do not change or remain fixed during an experiment | Constant
| 9. A factor that is measured in an experiment; it changes in response to the independent variable | Dependent Variable
| 10. A factor that is changed on purpose in an experiment | Independent Variable
| 11. Information collected from observations; can be measured qualitatively of quantitatively | Data
| 12. Data that measures a quantity; numerical data | Quantitative
| 13. Data that can be described differently by different people | Qualitative
| 14. Standards of measurement used by most of the world; International System of Units | SI
| 15. A set of moral principles or values | Ethics |
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Usage_of_the_5_senses_to_gather_information
Question 1 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Organized_series_of_events_used_to_solve_a_problem
Question 2 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=An_assumption_based_on_a_prior_experience
Question 3 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_Logo_designed_to_alert_you_to_a_specific_danger
Question 4 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_testable_explanation_of_a_situation
Question 5 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_procedure_designed_to_test_a_hypothesis_and_collect_data
Question 6 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_is_used_as_a_standard_of_comparison_in_an_experiment
Question 7 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Factors_that_do_not_change_or_remain_fixed_during_an_experiment
Question 8 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_factor_that_is_measured_in_an_experiment;_it_changes_in_response_to_the_independent_variable
Question 9 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_factor_that_is_changed_on_purpose_in_an_experiment
Question 10 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Information_collected_from_observations;_can_be_measured_qualitatively_of_quantitatively
Question 11 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Data_that_measures_a_quantity;_numerical_data
Question 12 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Data_that_can_be_described_differently_by_different_people
Question 13 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Standards_of_measurement_used_by_most_of_the_world;_International_System_of_Units
Question 14 (of 15)
Beginning Biology Terms: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_set_of_moral_principles_or_values
Question 15 (of 15)
