A question of science
How about designing and helping to organise a science quiz?
Where can you find ideas for questions (and answers)?
Remember - although the internet is full of information, how do you know if the facts you read are true? Quite often people writing websites get things wrong.
It's probably worth checking any facts you want to use with something or someone you trust (e.g. an encylopedia, a reliable website like the BBC, or an adult).
Here are some websites we found that might help you to write good quiz questions - remember, we haven't checked out all the questions and answers - that is up to you!
- National Science and Engineering Week website has some interesting quizzes
- The Guiness Book of Records is a good source for some tricky questions
- Quiz-zone has lots of quizzes, you might find some ideas there
- Trivnet has some science quizzes
- Pub Quiz Help some some ideas for science questions
Quiz formats
Your quiz doesn't need to be written, there are lots of ways you could run a quiz. Here are some ideas to help you.- Most quizzes have a series of different 'rounds', with each one being about a different topic or ina different style.
- Think about your favourite gameshows on tv. Can you borrow any ideas from them - a favourite round of questions, or how they set-up the stage?
- Try and have a mixture of rounds (e.g. some straight questions, a picture round, a set of questions on a particular topic).
- Not all the rounds in your quiz need to be question and answers. For example, you could ask people to describe a particular science word (e.g. astronomy) without using that word, or any other words on their card. Give them a time limit!
- Quiz rounds that involve drawing, singing or acting are great fun and can liven things up.
- http://www.ukgameshows.com/ is a website that tells you all about gameshows in the UK. You might find some ideas for a format here. It even has a category for children's gameshows
