Florida AgSafe Training Materials

Safety/Jeopardy Game

Prepared by Dr. Carol Lehtola, University of Florida

Purpose

Safey/Jeopardy is a version of the popular game show that you can use in a classroom setting for a fun and engaging safety training activity. This might be especially useful with younger audiences or with audiences in required training sessions where the information might not be new to many participants. The Safety/Jeopardy game is a good way to engage the interest of audiences in a fun and lightly competitive activity.

The purpose of the Safety Jeopardy Game is to serve as a safety ‘refresher and review' of items that specific audiences need to know to work safely. Answers which are not obvious to the audience can generate helpful discussions.

The game is similar to the popular television show with its clever categories and range of values for the questions. We have created many sets of questions (scroll down to see them). In these question sets, players do not supply the correct question for an answer, instead, their task is more straightforward; they simply supply the answers to questions.

The game can be played in two parts like ‘single' Jeopardy and ‘double' Jeopardy, if time permits.

One game of ‘single' Safety/Jeopardy takes approximately 45 minutes depending on the audience and the amount of discussion.

Materials Needed

We have seen many set-ups for the Safety/Jeopardy game using a variety of poster boards, paper pockets, hooks, colored paper, etc. You can easily improvise a game set-up on a bulletin board using sheet protectors and colored paper. We have instructions for a canvas game board that rolls up.

There are many sites on th Internet where you can create your own Jeopardy-style game that you can then save as a PowerPoint presentation and use whenever you want to. One is available at he Holton Middle School Web site (scroll to the bottom of the page; this version even includes the music!). Other versions area available -- use your favorite search engine and enter "Jeopardy game."

Game Set-Up

Select six categories for your game. Remove the Question Sheets and save them for the questioner. Set up the ‘board' with Title Pages and Value Amount Pages. A set-up for ‘single' Safety/Jeopardy is shown below.

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Game Rules

  1. Begin the game by asking for a volunteer to select a category and dollar amount. The questioner then reads the question.
  2. Participants raise a hand if they know the answer. It is helpful to have an assistant to identify who raised a hand first.
  3. If a participant answers correctly, give them a small prize, and remove the Value Amount Page from the board and give it to them.
  4. The participant who answers a question correctly selects the next category and amount. However, anyone in the audience can raise a hand to answer the question.
  5. At the end of the allotted program time, each participant should total the dollar values on all the Value Amount Pages won during the game. The person with the highest dollar amount will be the first to go to the prize table and make a selection from the larger prizes, and so on in descending order of dollar amounts. (Be sure to collect all the Value Amount pages!)

Notes

The questions that are provided can be used as guides. Feel free to be creative and add questions that relate to specific rules of the participants' workplace. The intent is also to incorporate some discussion with the answers if more explanation is needed.

When time is limited, use fewer categories that are more specific to the audience. For example, for lawn care workers, play a game of ‘single' Safety/Jeopardy with three to six categories, and then a game of ‘double' Safety/Jeopardy with one category like "Grass is Greener."

 

Question Sets

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