Do you remember the days when as a child, you used to grab your daily newspaper or weekly magazine and start solving puzzles? Decoding those fun quizzes and riddles made you feel satisfied and accomplished, which just made our day! With the storm of the online world, how many quizzes or puzzles that pop on your social media account you have solved? Even today, we have the zest to solve such quizzes, so why don’t our children also indulge in the habit of conquering various puzzles.
Play some entertaining quizzes and puzzles with your child in this COVID-19 pandemic, make the utmost use of your child staying at home. We at Nalanda International School, one of the top schools in Baroda have brought some exciting ideas for the development of your child.
What makes a quiz an interesting classroom tool? Here are 8 reasons for you’re a few minutes of tea-break that might get you thinking about using quizzes in your in-house classroom:
1. Quizzes Boost Confidence
Imagine, the first time when you play a quiz game and score 4/10. This instigates you to remember the answers where you went wrong, and you play again till you reach the score at least 8/10. This urge to accomplish builds confidence in students.
2. Quizzes are Fun
Most of the students’ love playing quizzes in their break hours. And if learning is fun, then we learn better. Playing quizzes can be a few minutes of relaxation with learning and building knowledge.
3. Quizzes help to Retain Information
Reading information is useful, but playing a fun quiz after reading information is even more useful. Your brain retrieves the data, ensuring that it can be used in the future. So, of course quizzes do help us retain information.
4. Quizzes can help in identifying gaps in knowledge
When children play quizzes, they realise the areas of knowledge they lack and come up with ways to improve those areas.
5. Quizzes are less stressful
Playing quizzes at one's home is much less stressful and is effective to test oneself especially for shy children who rarely raise their hand in class for fear of getting a wrong answer and making a fool of themselves.
6. Quizzes are useful for revision
Playing quizzes is a great way to revise the topics your child studies. This way, a child knows where they stand and what areas they yet need to study more.
7. Quizzes make children more enthusiastic.
Playing fun quizzes also makes children feel good and so, makes them enthusiastic about playing more. Basically, the more oftentimes they play, the more extra they will learn. This develops their interest to learn things.
8. Help children to concentrate.
Playing a quiz or games requires concentration. A child learns to focus and with time, learns to concentrate at one task at a time. Unlike reading textbooks, which can make your child distract after a point of time.
Read more: 20 fun activities for students after schools shut down due to coronavirus.
Quizzes and games not only build knowledge but also helps in the personality development of your child. Children are stressed in the pandemic, use some of the stressbuster games mentioned in the blog and make your child play some fun quizzes. Enrol your child in one the best schools of Baroda, Nalanda International School, we believe parents and students both need support and guidance in the COVID-19 scenario. Contact us!
