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For each Science Year theme why not
offer prizes to pupils who come up
with the best answers to these everyday
science questions? The prizes could
be tickets to a local science centre
museum or your local cinema, which
they often give away free to good
causes. To increase the profile of
your Science Year and engage other
teachers across the school you could
run one a week during form-time. Pupils
will need to do a little research
to find these answers. You can find
these questions and many more at www.newscientist.com,
the homepage for New Scientist
magazine.
These questions are linked to the
Can we; should we? theme. Answers
suggested by the New Scientist
website readers can be downloaded
here.
Who wants to be a scientist?
is based on a well-known quiz format.
It is a PowerPoint presentation, although
it works well in class or as a lunchtime
competition using overheads. To save
ink print overheads in black and white.
Questions are based around the Can
we; should we? activities included
on this website. The quiz could be
run during lunch times as an inter-form
competition, or within class time.
After you have saved the PowerPoint
quiz to your computer you can customise
the questions as you wish. Each team
will need their three lifeline cards
to use once in the game. The game
runs for about 20-30 minutes with
four teams. You do need the killer
question at the end for tie-breaks.
Contact local museums and cinemas
for complimentary tickets, pens etc.,
to use as prizes.
We know that pupils like and learn
from good quizzes. There are many
sources of questions that you can
use interactively on the web, or take
for your own quizzes in the classroom.
- Have you written them already?
- Would you like to produce an interactive
quiz that pupils will benefit from
for years to come?
Please contact us about writing future
quiz resources. These questions are
based around QCA units that link with
our Can we; should we? theme.
These web links take you to a range
of sites that include questions and
quizzes for pupils.
Interactive quizzes for primary pupils
on a range of topics. Try the insects
movie and quiz if Year 6 pupils are
following 'Environment' from the 'Passport'
bridging project (US spelling).
www.brainpop.com/science/seeall.weml
Interactive quizzes and other resources.
www.scool.co.uk
Quiz worksheets to print out.
www.creative-chemistry.org.uk
Lists sites with quizzes.
www.teachingideas.co.uk/linksschool.htm
On-line quizzes or take the questions
for use in your classroom.
www.what-is-the-speed-of-light.com
www.why-is-the-sky-blue.org
www.1001-periodic-table-quiz-questions.com
Should your school website be here?
Let us know.
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