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Run Around Quiz

Purpose: To test Scouts knowledge and provide information on a given topic

Development Stage:
• Developing Awareness
• Measuring change

Instructions:
• The leaders of some of the Scouts should develop a multiple choice quiz with answers A – D on your chosen topic.
• Designate 4 different areas of the meeting place and label them A,B,C and D.
• Everyone starts in the middle of the four areas.
• Leader reads out the question with the four possible answers.
• Scouts then run to the base they think corresponds with the correct answer.
• Leader reads out the correct answer and comments on it as appropriate.
• Participants come back to the centre.
• The next question is asked.

Alternatives:
You could choose to use colours or numbers rather than letters for the bases

Equipment Needed: Cards with 'A', 'B', 'C' & 'D' or cards of 4 different colours. Questions on a topic with four possible answers

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