The water cycle

Riddles (black letters): a person from the team selects the card and reads the riddle out loud, allowing all the teams to hear it. The person with the question card is then permitted to approach their team and discuss the answer. There is only one attempt at guessing the riddle. If the riddle is answered incorrectly then the question card should be returned to the question box. Taboo (red letters): a member of the team selects the card. They are permitted to give a maximum of five clues. Their team is not allowed to speak until the team member talking indicates that they have finished giving their clues. There is only one attempt to guess the correct word, although the team members may discuss possible answers among themselves before settling on a final answer. If answered incorrectly then the question card should be returned to the question box.True or false(Green letters): a member of the team selects the card and reads the statement out loud, allowing all the teams to hear it. Then they are permitted to approach their team and discuss with them whether they think the statement is true of flase. If answered incorrectly the card is returned to the box.

Activities

Spelling (blue letters): one person from the team selects the card. Once they have seen the word they select a person from their team to spell the word outloud. Only the person with the question card can see the word. The selected team member has only one attempt to spell the word correctly. If it is spelt incorrectly then the question card should be returned to the question box.

Activities

Trivial: Water Cycle

Time: 45 minutes1.- 5-10 minutes-explanation and organisation of activity2.- 35 minutes- activityMaterial: Trivial cards, small boxDescription of activityThe aim of the game is to answer two questions correctly in each category, and so complete the trivial “cheese”There are four categories: spelling, riddles, taboo and true or false. All of these categories are based directly on information which the children have been taught about the water cycle.

Creating

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Water Cycle

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Question card selection

The selections of question cards is random. If a question is answered incorrectly then it will be returned to the box thus ensuring that another team, or even the same team, has the possibiltiy of answering the question.If a team has gained a cheese for a category (ie, answered two questions correctly from a category) and selects a question from said category then they may return the question card to the question box and select a new question card.

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