Quiz your community

Before you begin

• Plan how you’ll take the quiz into your local community – once you’ve decided on the details, you’ll need to sort out a risk assessment and let parents and carers know.

Introduce the idea

1. The person leading the activity should remind everyone that many refugees and displaced children have had to flee their homes because of conflict or crisis in their home country. Ask what people know about current conflicts or crises around the world. Ask if people can remember the difference between ‘refugee’, ‘migrant’, and ‘displaced’.  

Encourage people to give as many answers as possible, even if they’re not entirely sure if they’re exactly right. You could encourage more answers by asking questions like ‘Where is Afghanistan?’ or ‘What could the UK do about the situation?’

2. The person leading the activity should ask everyone if they can remember all the things that have just been said. People probably won’t remember everything.

Don’t forget to congratulate people for everything they know.

3. Everyone should think about how they can share information in a fun way that’s more likely to engage people and help them remember it.

If people don’t reach the idea of a quiz, prompt them. Listen to their other suggestions too – they may have some good ideas you could also try!

Make the quiz

1. Everyone should think about what they like (or don’t like) about quizzes. What makes them enjoyable?

People could think about the sorts of questions (for example, multiple choice or not), how tricky the questions are, and whether they prefer different rounds with different themes.

2. The person leading the activity should ask everyone what they’ll need to make a really good quiz.

Among everyone’s ideas, listen for someone saying information, facts, or answers. They’ll need to make sure they know about a topic before they can write questions.

3. Everyone should think about how they can make sure the things they know are accurate. Where could they get more information?
4. The person leading activity should remind everyone that Save the Children have plenty of information and resources and show them the fact sheets.
5. Everyone should split into groups. The person leading the activity should give each group a few copies of the fact sheets.
6. Each group should read the sheets and make sure they understand it all. If they don’t understand anything (or have any questions), they should ask the person leading the activity.
7. Each group should decide how they’ll structure their quiz. Will they have more than one round? What sort of questions will they include? Will they give people half points if they’re nearly right?
8. Each group should work together to think of their questions and write them down.
9. Each group should join up with another group to test their questions. Do they all work? Do any need to be made easier or trickier?
10. Everyone should come back together and chat about how they found practising their quiz. Did any questions work really well? Does anyone remember anything they learned? Did people tweak any questions?
11. Each group should decide how they’ll track people’s answers. Will they ask the questions and write down people’s answers or give them the questions on a sheet? If they give people sheets, will they collect them or let them keep them?
12. The person leading the activity should remind everyone people often like to get rewards for participating. Everyone should spend a few moments thinking of an easy reward they could make, for example, stickers that say ‘I took a Scout quiz and learned lots about how to help children who have to flee their homes! Ask me what I know.’

People could make these from sticky labels if they have time (and resources), but it doesn’t matter if they stay as an idea.

The quiz

1. Everyone should take their quiz into their community and see what they can discover.

Make sure that everyone sticks together in groups and that leaders are present.

2. Everyone should compare their results and talk about the conversations the quiz prompted. What did (and didn’t) people know? Was anything surprising? Did people notice that different people tended to know different things (for example adults compared to children)?

It’s up to you whether you do this straight after you take your quiz into the community or the next time you meet.

3. Now they know what people need to learn, everyone should think about how they could teach their community more about crises which force children to become displaced in their own countries or flee their country as a refugee.

This activity helps contribute towards some of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Find out more about the SDGs, and how Scouts across the world are getting involved.