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 controls what enters and leaves the cell? | cell membrane | 2. What transfers energy into ATP? | mitochondria | 3. What stores the cell's DNA? | Nucleus | 4. What is the process of cells detecting and responding to signals in the extracellular environment? | cell communication | 5. Why do cells need to respond to signals? | They need to respond to a changing environment and cells need to communicate with each other. | 6. A type of signaling where cells release signals that affect themselves and nearby target cells. | Autocrine Signaling | 7. A type of signaling where cells release signals that affect nearby target cells. | Paracrine Signaling | 8. A type of signaling molecules secreted into the blood for long distance transport to target cells. | Endocrine Signaling | 9. What are enzymes that activate or inactivate other proteins by phosphorylation? | kinases | 10. What is a mass of abnormal cells within otherwise normal tissue called? | tumors | 11. What method is used to treat metastatic tumors by drugs that are toxic to actively dividing cells that are administered through the circulatory system? | Chemotherapy |
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