QR Challenge: Getting into your Genes
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. Draw and label an animal cell |
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2. Draw and label a plant cell |
| 3. Which parts of cells are found in a plant cell but not in an animal cell? |
| 4. What does the nucleus of the cell do? |
| 5. What does the cell membrane of the cell do? |
| 6. Which part of the plant cell absorbs sunlight for photosynthesis? |
| 7. Which part of the male reproductive system stores sperm cells? |
| 8. Which part of the female reproductive system are the eggs cells made? |
| 9. Which part of the female reproductive system does the egg roll down? |
| 10. What is special about a sperm cell? |
| 11. What is fertilisation? |
| 12. Why do frogs lay lots and lots of eggs? |
| 13. What does the word 'variation' mean? |
| 14. What is a hybrid (you drew one for homrwork) |
| 15. What is selective breeding? | |
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Draw_and_label_an_animal_cell
Question 1 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Draw_and_label_a_plant_cell
Question 2 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Which_parts_of_cells_are_found_in_a_plant_cell_but_not_in_an_animal_cell?
Question 3 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_the_nucleus_of_the_cell_do?
Question 4 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_the_cell_membrane_of_the_cell_do?
Question 5 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Which_part_of_the_plant_cell_absorbs_sunlight_for_photosynthesis?
Question 6 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Which_part_of_the_male_reproductive_system_stores_sperm_cells?
Question 7 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Which_part_of_the_female_reproductive_system_are_the_eggs_cells_made?
Question 8 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Which_part_of_the_female_reproductive_system_does_the_egg_roll_down?
Question 9 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_special_about_a_sperm_cell?
Question 10 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_fertilisation?
Question 11 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_do_frogs_lay_lots_and_lots_of_eggs?
Question 12 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_the_word_'variation'_mean?
Question 13 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_a_hybrid_(you_drew_one_for_homrwork)
Question 14 (of 15)
Getting into your Genes: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_selective_breeding?
Question 15 (of 15)