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. 1. Which type of microscope can produce three-dimensional images of a cell’s surface? | scanning electron | 2. 2. A tomato plant is a prokaryote or a eukaryote? | Eukaryote | 3. 3. Which organelle breaks down organelles that are no longer useful? | lysosome | 4. 4. The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane is called | osmosis | 5. 5. What is it called when the concentration of dissolved substances in the solution is the same as the concentration of dissolved substances inside the cell? | isotonic | 6. 6. movement of particles from an area of higher concentration to one of lower concentration | diffusion | 7. 7. A recipe says to mix 100 g of sugar, a pinch of NaCl, and 1 g vanilla flavoring in 113 g of butter. Which ingredient is the solvent? | Butter | 8. 8. What are the reactants in the equation for cellular respiration? | oxygen and sugar | 9. 9. Where does glycolysis take place? | cytoplasm | 10. 10. What happens after glycolysis if there is no oxygen present? | fermentation | 11. 11. What are the reactants of photosynthesis? | water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight | 12. 12. What are the products of photosynthesis? | sugar and oxygen | 13. 13. What are the products of cellular respiration? | ATP, carbon dioxide, and water | 14. 14. `Describe the two roles of enzymes. | lower activation energy and speed up the rate of the reaction | 15. 15. Which macromolecule stores energy for an organism? | Lipids | 16. 16. In humans and other multicelluar organisms, which substance plays a central role as an energy source? | Carbohydrates | 17. 17. A substance with a pH of 6 is called | acid | 18. 18. An organic compound is a compound that contains | carbon | 19. 19. Which class of macromolecules store and communicate genetic information? | nucleic acids | 20. What makes water “sticky”? | Polar / hydrogen bonds |
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