If your students are expecting a fun Christmas activity in their last science lesson of the term then we may just have the answer for you. Introducing the Teachers’ Club Christmas Science quiz, 2015.
This quiz can be used as a classroom activity with students working alone, in pairs or in groups. You could read out the questions, give each group the sheet to complete or cut up the questions and hide them around the classroom for teams to find (let’s go the whole distance and wrap each one up in Christmas wrapping paper!)
Play a few festive tunes in the background and you have yourself a merry little quiz-mas – science style.
Alternatively (or as well as), use the quiz with your tutor group and have a question a day a bit like an advent calendar (but without the chocolate). Keep the questions in a Santa hat or a Christmas paper wrapped box and invite a student a day to pick out a question and read it out to the rest of the class to answer. The student with the most correct answers at the end of the term could win a special prize.
Download the Christmas Science quiz questions:
- Christmas science quiz questions [PDF: 330 KB]
- Christmas science quiz questions (editable file) [WORD: 85 KB]
The answers
- Holly
- Gold
- Chlorophyll
- Chemical (in the food) and thermal (because they are warm)
- The Sun!
- Combustion (or burning or oxidation)
- Protein
- To stop them being eaten by animals
- Chemical
- Conifers
- Carbon, hydrogen, iodine, sulfur, arsenic
- 2400 cm2
- It reflects the heat coming from the turkey and stops it escaping into the air
- Gravity, air resistance, friction, upthrust and thrust (if you believe he has an engine on his sleigh)
- Galaxy
- Physical
- X-rays
- Parallel
- Mince pie
- Any colour of the spectrum apart from red (it reflects red light)
Another fun activity for your students in the run up to Christmas is Christmas Science – Making lip balm.
By Gemma Young for Smart Learning