This is ANOTHER question I posted a few months back and did not return with a
hit... Anyway, I am splitting it into two separte posts. In this, you will find
the basics of running a trivia contest and the types of trivia contests people run.
In the next, you will find sources of trivia.
How to Run a Trivia Contest:
I have one of those hard gift boxes that you can buy at party stores. I cut a slit
in the top and put velcro on the two sides. That way kids can't peek inside. I only
let them answer once and I just keep it on the
desk where they check out. This weeks question is "How many animals are
represented on the Chinese
calendar?" I keep a Curious George lunch box with prizes that kids can pick from.
This is my 5th year doing this. For elementary: Announce the question (what is the
difference between magma and lava, etc) on Monday's morning show. Have them submit
the right answer on a piece of paper into a box in the media center. That gets them
in so you can recommend books to find the
answer. Draw the winning answer from the box on Friday morning show. Give the
winner a small prize - books, pencils, erasers, anything that encourages playing
the game. I've even had parents e-mail me, telling me how much fun they have at
home doing the questions! Your enthusiasm for learning will be
catching!
I started a trivia contest this year--it's so exciting to me! I put a large
fishbowl on a counter with a stack of scrap paper and pencils. I tape the question
of the week to both sides of the tank (they're printed on index cards). I have the
rules posted: Name, Teacher, Answer, and the location where they found their
answer. I've been accepting resources such as "book," but later this year I'll
start requiring a title. I try to vary the topic to get students looking in
different locations in the library. Right now, I am using a list of student
authored questions. I spent a lab session with fourth and fifth graders and had
them write questions from the websites they were learning to use. They get a prize
if I pick their question. I post the answers with the questions to a bulletin
board. Winners are announced on the announcements.
We do a trivia question each day with the closed circuit TV broadcast. Some weeks
they are based on the science curriculum, some weeks they are sports related; they
come from various places. We try to have questions that even the younger ones can
do with the help of their teachers. The students write their answers with name and
teacher's name on notebook paper and bring them to a box in the media center.
Correct answers are put into another box with names drawn for prizes at the end of
the week.Types of Trivia Contests:
*Find it in the almanac Written and purchased from World almanac
*Geography Bee
*Cerebral Quest - taken from the boxed cards purchased in Teacher stores which have
5 different questions for 3 different levels
Biographical Detective - 5 clues written up about a person
*Super Sleuth- daily clues put up on one topic... Purchased from Relative Teaching
concepts
*Who am I? Pictures of "famous people found usually in the newspaper they have to
ID.
I'm in a 7-12 library, but this may help you. I have a "word of the day" contest,
and a "question of the week" contest. I get the word of the day from dictionary.com
and post this in the LMC and in the daily
announcements. Students then look up the definition and submit it to the
appropriate container on the Circulation Desk. Each morning, I draw 2 winners - one
from 7th-8th grade, and one from 9th-12th grade. The winner for each section gets a
coupon for a free 6 in. sandwich from Subway.
I also do a "This day in history" each day, and on Monday have a question related
to the event that happened on that day. Students are given the entire week to find
the answer and submit it to the
appropriate container. The question of the week is also posted in the LMC and is in
the daily announcements. I then draw a winner on the following Monday, and give the
winner's name and the answer to the question in the daily announcements. The winner
also gets a Subway coupon. Mary WegherLibrary Media SpecialistWagonwheel and 4J
Elementary SchoolsGillette, WY
"One day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an
excellent education."http://www.teachforamerica.org
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