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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 examples of those
found on the website:
Moon blues: Can we really
have a blue moon?
Insular electrons: How do you
recharge an electric toothbrush through
its plastic case?
Inner glow: Why does rotten
wood sometimes glow?
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 taken from the multiple
choice units provided below. 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.
This quiz uses questions from the
Patterns of Reactivity quiz
which you can print out below.
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.
These questions are based around
several biology QCA Scheme of Work
units.
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