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. What is the name chromosome you receive from your father? | 'y' | 2. What is a pedigree chart used for? | to describe phenotypes | 3. What is the human sex cell called? | gametes | 4. How do humans reproduce? | sexually | 5. What are two types of asexual reproduction? | binary fission, fragmentation, and budding | 6. What is happening when pollen from one plant is put into another? | cross pollination | 7. What is a punnet square used for? | predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment | 8. When two identical alleles for a trait are in an organism, the organism is said to be ____________? | homozygous | 9. The passing of physical characteristics from parent to offspring is __________. | heredity | 10. What is having neither a dominant or recessive trait called? | Codominance | 11. When an organism has two different alleles for a trait they are said to be ________________. | heterozygous | 12. When the Dominant Allele is Green Pod Color and the Recessive Allele is a Pinched Pod Shape is it possible for an organism to have both of the traits? | yes | 13. In pea plants, the dominant trait for Seed Color is Yellow. What is the Recessive trait? | green, anything but yellow | 14. If a pea plant has a gray seed coat color, is that the pea plants phenotype of genotype? | phenotype | 15. When a capital letter is used, what kind of allele is being represented? | dominant allele | 16. Mendel wondered why different pea plants had _________ ____________? | different | 17. A Punnett Square shows all the possible combinations of what? | alleles | 18. The stage of the cell cycle during which the cells nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one copy of the DNA is distributed into each daughter cell is called what? | mitosis | 19. A rod-shaped cellular structure made of condensed chromatin; contains DNA, which carries the genetic information that controls inherited characteristics such as eye color and blood type is called what? | chromosome | 20. A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait | gene | 21. The process of selecting a few organisms with desired traits to serve as parents of the next generation is called what? | selective breeding |
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