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. Which photosystem uses p700 | PSI | 2. What colour light do the accessory pigments carotenoids absorb | Blue | 3. True or False? Miss Parker won an award for being the best science teacher in London? | true | 4. TREASURE TIME! Mr Byfield (a great Biologist!) used to keep chocolate somewhere in JAGS – if you know you will find some there! | drawer | 5. What holds photosystems in place | proteins embedded in the grana | 6. Why couldn't the plants escape prison? | Their cells were surrounded by walls. | 7. Define photophosphorylation | the makingof ATP from ADP and Pi in the presence of light | 8. Which photosystem is involved in cyclic photophosphorylation | PI (P700) | 9. Which Biology hero did Miss Parker meet (and get rejected from) at the weekend? | David Attenborough | 10. The Calvin Cycle fixes CO2 and uses it to build complex organic molecules as worked out by Calvin and his associates in the 1940s but what is Calvin’s first name? | Melvin | 11. 2 molecules of GP are reduced and phosphorylated to become what in the Calvin Cycle? | 2TP | 12. We all love enzymes but which is arguably the most I important enzyme on earth? | rubisco | 13. True or False? Miss Parker’s brother invented a machine that can replicate photosynthesis by transferring light energy into chemical energy | false | 14. In classification we name the genus and species…TREASURE TIME if you find Apis mellifera | honey bees | 15. What did one cell say to his sister cell when she stepped in his toe? | Ouch mitosis | 16. 500 million years ago CO2 was 20 times higher than it is now, what is the current % of CO2 in the atmosphere? | 0.03-0.06 | 17. What is the name of the piece of equipment used to measure the rate of photosynthesis by collecting the volume of Oxygen produced in a certain time? | photosynthometer | 18. True or False? Miss Parker used to be a professional clown? | True | 19. List 2 products that we use GM microorganisms to produce | insulin and HGH | 20. What is the term used in gene therapy to describe an organism that has received an allele from other organism? | transgenic | 21. In electrophoresis, which fragments move furthest? | shorter fragments | 22. When was Dolly the sheep born? | 1996 | 23. How many times faster do your finger nails grow compare to your toe nails? | 4 | 24. True or False? Miss Parker has told David Cameron off in Margaret Thatchers study, Downing Street | True |
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