Team Quest Christmas Edition 2 - Team Building Quiz for KS3

A fantastic back to school or end of year activity. It promotes the concepts of both working as a team and contributing individually to the success of a team. It is enjoyable and fun too. As it starts, the rules for answering each round are clearly explained. One purchaser of a similar quiz commented “it helped to build community in my classes”.

It promotes the concepts of both working as a team and contributing individually to the success of a team. As it starts, the rules for answering each round are clearly explained. One purchaser of a similar quiz commented “it helped to build community in my classes”.

All questions types are pictorial and multiple choice. A wide range of general knowledge questions and tasks are included. As well as asking a question, a lot of slides also provide some interesting snippets about the topic so pupils are expanding their general knowledge as well as enjoying the activity. Topics include:

• Christmas trivia
• geography
• history
• nature
• science
• music
• astrology
• astronomy
• flags of the world
• famous people
• famous landmarks
• current affairs

Team Rounds

• Christmas Trivia – Three questions per team. If a wrong answer is given, the next question goes to the first hand up and, if correct, that person’s team get to try the rest of the round.
• Sayings - solve the clues to identify well - known phrases or sayings.
• Conveyor – A memory test. Questions on 11 items which pass across the screen.
• Fish – A memory test. Question on the positions of fish in a pond before and after they move.
• Lightning Round – Identify slowly revealed landmarks or people against time penalties.

Individual Rounds

• Unscramble – identify the items in pictures which has been cut up and rearranged.
• Spelling – Identify slowly revealed words against time penalties.
• Bonus round – General knowledge This round allows flexibility in terms of the time the quiz takes as not all the questions have to be attempted. The quiz therefore can last between 40 and 50 minutes.

Full instructions are given on the PowerPoint itself.

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