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.
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| 1. 1.What is an area of microbiolgy that is concerned with the occurrence of disease in in human population? | epidemiology | 2. 2.Which process involves the deliberate alteration of an organism's genetic material? | biotechnology | 3. 3.What is a hypothesis? | a scientific explanation that is subject to testing. | 4. 4. Organisms in the same ____________ are more closely related than in the same genus. | species | 5. 5. What type of cells do bacteria have? | prokaryotic |
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