Lessons In TR

Here are some more ideas I came up with about how you could play the game 🙂

Use the Full Sheets

Print the PDF sheets and glue the full sheet of questions to a full sheet of colored paper that designates the level (beginner, etc.), and laminate them. Some ideas:

• Put barrels around the arena. On each barrel put one sheet from each level. Riders ride to the barrels and choose which level to answer. Volunteers read the questions and if the rider answers correctly, they get another question, but if they get it wrong, they need to ride to another barrel. You can put obstacles between the barrels that the rider must ride over before visiting another barrel.
• If you are doing an activity that requires waiting, have the sheets in a specific place that the volunteers can use to quiz the riders while they wait their turn. For example, while waiting their turn to ride the obstacle course the rider halts at a barrel or post that has the questions sheet on it that the volunteer* can then use, bu doesn’t have to carry around with them.
• Use the sheets during classroom time at horse camp as a verbal trivia game. Divide the group into teams and whoever gets the most points wins extra treats for their horse.

Use the Individual Questions

Cut out each question and glue each one to its own strip of colored paper that matches the level (and I’d suggest laminating them so they last).

• To indicate how many points each question is worth, you can leave it blank so you must remember which color is which level and points, or you can write the number of points each question is worth on the back, or you can put a number of stickers on the back for how much it is worth which would involve counting.
• Put the trivia questions around the arena on barrels or in cups. The riders must go get a question and bring it back to you to answer it, so you can keep track of the points. Or, have them answer the question with their volunteer*, who keeps track of points. You can add obstacles the riders must go over or around before getting their question. Or no obstacles but incorporate how to ride in arena traffic and not run into each other.
• Same as above, but velcro the questions onto a piece of colored paper for its level, and you can even attach that to an upright pole. So each upright pole could have one sheet of paper with questions velcro’d to it, or 3 sheets of paper the same, one for each level (so the rider can choose which level). This incorporates more fine motor skills of pulling the question off the sheet of paper.
• Create a game board with pockets or velcro for the questions (kind of like Jeopardy – you could even make categories like “horse genders” and “true or false”). Play this together in a group or make it one station in an obstacle course. The board could also be used for horse camps.

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