DRAWING QUIZZES

This is an angle on quizzing. It is often non-verbal and requires students to focus their attention on a blackboard or whiteboard. This novelty quiz is best worked from a competition points viewpoint between boys and girls. It might also be between other groups in the classroom.

Introduce by telling children you’re going to do some drawing on the blackboard and they have to tell you what it is you have drawn might be about fact or it could be fictional.

An example of fact would be a drawing of a termite mound, termites therein, location of the mound, and other environmental settings. Children have to guess what you have drawn and then watch each symbol or drawing addition represents. It sometimes takes a little while for children to clean the first clue but after that association allows the quiz to proceed quite rapidly.

Responses can be enthusiastic and sometimes noise can get out of hand. This means that hands up might be a part of the approach. You can also alternate between boys and girls, groups, or by some other agreed method.

Imagination is the only limiting factor in an exercise like this.

Another might be to draw a railing style fence, which can also be interpreted as a section of railway track. Children have to identify elements of either or both.

Exercises of this nature are far from pointless. They fire up imagination and also help extend the general knowledge of children in the class. These sorts of activities take little time to prepare and administer. Once children get the quizzing habit, they look forward to these short, sharp knowledge testing interludes.

Try this approach to quizzes. It is different and can be fun.