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. To find your first clue, head to a place, where Frank McCourt's story takes centre stage. His childhood tales, so raw and real are on display for all to feel. Outside a museum that bears his name, you'll find your clue, so go and claim it | 2. Activity: Take a group photo in order of age (youngest to oldest) and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: To find your next clue, you must explore, a museum that's a people's treasure trove. Where stories of the past are told, through photographs, artefacts and tales of old. Look for a display that's unique and rare, And you'll find the clue waiting there. | 3. Welcome to a place of nature and light, Where Limerick's beauty is quite a sight. To find your clue, look up and see, The sign that marks the entrance to this place. Green trees and grassy areas abound, A perfect place to explore and unwind. | 4. Activity: Ask someone if you can take a group photo with their dog and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: The place in the park where you might find a band playing, Its colours are simple: just red and blue! Music was played here, I know it, do you?. | 5. Activity: Take a group photo of everyone playing ‘air’ guitar and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: Part 1. Put an S and a P before a ring, you’ll soon find good reasons to start listing the seasons! Part 2. Sometimes at weddings, this food is thrown, A paddy field is where it’s grown. Put these words together for your next location. | 6. Outside of the park, you’ll find a man in a toga, but he’s not Greek or Roman and he doesn’t do yoga. In fact, our main street in Limerick is called after this man. He’s known as ‘’The Liberator’’ but his friends call him Dan. | 7. Activity: Take a group photo in front of the fountain – don’t fall in! Clue: By the river Shannon, A monument stands tall and handsome, Honouring those who braved the sea, Their courage and strength for all to see. At this spot, by the river's bend, A tribute to these sea men, we commend (If you see an anchor, stop and thank her!) | 8. Activity: Take a group photo in order of height (tallest to shortest) in front of the monument and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: Look for two men holding some wood, Down by the Shannon in bronze they are stood. These men represent all the dockers of old they worked loading ships, that’s the story I’m told. | 9. Activity: Take a picture that shows 8 hands and 13 fingers. Clue: Where actors and artists come to play, In a theatre that's not far away, Find the place where the curtains rise, And the magic of performance fills the skies. | 10. Activity: Take a picture with a celebrity and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: It’s the building where you work hard on linguistics. The best school in Limerick – you can see the statistics! When you arrive at the door there’s one more code still to scan. So it’s time to RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. | 11. Congratulations! You have travelled the city far and wide, To see if you’ve won, Check with Vicky inside… |
To find your first clue, head to a place, where Frank McCourt's story takes centre stage. His childhood tales, so raw and real are on display for all to feel. Outside a museum that bears his name, you'll find your clue, so go and claim it&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 11)
Activity: Take a group photo in order of age (youngest to oldest) and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: To find your next clue, you must explore, a museum that's a people's treasure trove. Where stories of the past are told, through photographs, artefacts and tales of old. Look for a display that's unique and rare, And you'll find the clue waiting there.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 11)
Welcome to a place of nature and light, Where Limerick's beauty is quite a sight. To find your clue, look up and see, The sign that marks the entrance to this place. Green trees and grassy areas abound, A perfect place to explore and unwind.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 11)
Activity: Ask someone if you can take a group photo with their dog and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: The place in the park where you might find a band playing, Its colours are simple: just red and blue! Music was played here, I know it, do you?.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 11)
Activity: Take a group photo of everyone playing ‘air’ guitar and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: Part 1. Put an S and a P before a ring, you’ll soon find good reasons to start listing the seasons! Part 2. Sometimes at weddings, this food is thrown, A paddy field is where it’s grown. Put these words together for your next location.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 11)
Outside of the park, you’ll find a man in a toga, but he’s not Greek or Roman and he doesn’t do yoga. In fact, our main street in Limerick is called after this man. He’s known as ‘’The Liberator’’ but his friends call him Dan.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 11)
Activity: Take a group photo in front of the fountain – don’t fall in! Clue: By the river Shannon, A monument stands tall and handsome, Honouring those who braved the sea, Their courage and strength for all to see. At this spot, by the river's bend, A tribute to these sea men, we commend (If you see an anchor, stop and thank her!)&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 11)
Activity: Take a group photo in order of height (tallest to shortest) in front of the monument and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: Look for two men holding some wood, Down by the Shannon in bronze they are stood. These men represent all the dockers of old they worked loading ships, that’s the story I’m told.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 11)
Activity: Take a picture that shows 8 hands and 13 fingers. Clue: Where actors and artists come to play, In a theatre that's not far away, Find the place where the curtains rise, And the magic of performance fills the skies. &choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 11)
Activity: Take a picture with a celebrity and send it to WhatsApp. Clue: It’s the building where you work hard on linguistics. The best school in Limerick – you can see the statistics! When you arrive at the door there’s one more code still to scan. So it’s time to RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN. &choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 11)
Congratulations! You have travelled the city far and wide, To see if you’ve won, Check with Vicky inside… &choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 11)
