Jeopardy Game

Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Risk

 

General directions

This is conducted similar to the TV game show Jeopardy. Display the categories where everyone can see them.  Have participants choose the category and a point value (100, 200, 300, 400). Ask the corresponding question (i.e., 100 = question 1, 200 = question 2, etc.). If they get it correct, they get the points. This can be done in teams as well.

Below are the categories and questions for each section. 

What Is Risk and Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

  1. What are the five Gotcha topics suggested in activity 1?
  2. What are the three key concepts in activity 1? 
  3. What are the three groups that students compare their risk ranking to in activity 2?
  4. How many environmental risks do students need to prioritize in activity 2? 

Chances Are…Understanding Probability and Risk and Risk Assessment: Tools of the Trade

  1. What are 2 of the objectives for activity 3? 
  2. What is the purpose of part B in activity 3? 
  3. What are the 4 risk assessment tools discussed in activity 4? 
  4. What is the debate question for part C of activity 4? 

Communicating Risk and Weighing the Options: A Look at Tradeoffs

  1. What are the skills to be learned from Activity #5? 
  2. Where can you find suggestions for effective risk communication? 
  3. What will students debate in activity 6? 
  4. In what subjects could activity 6 fit? 

Decision Making: Ecological Risk, Wildfires, and Natural Hazards and Taking Action: Reducing Risk in Your School or Community

  1. Where can you find a comparison between the ecological risk assessment process and the human health risk assessment process? 
  2. What are the two decision-making tools highlighted in activity 7? 
  3. What are the objectives for activity 8? 
  4. What are the tree elements of activity 8?

The Special Topics

  1. What are the special topics? 
  2. What are the six interest groups represented in the simulation for EMF special topic?
  3. Where can you find a description of the element chlorine? 
  4. What are the objectives of the Plastics special topic?

The Appendices

  1. What is risk? 
  2. Where can you find what subjects each activity relates to? 
  3. Where in the module can you find suggestions on how to conduct a debate? 
  4. Where can you find additional background material that relates to a number of the activity topics? 

Other

  1. How do you know if a word is in the glossary? 
  2. What are the four steps of a commonly used risk assessment paradigm listed in the Background Information for Educators section? 
  3. How many teachers and risk professionals reviewed the module? 
  4. How are references cited throughout the module? (Author’s last name, year, section of the reference appendix)

 

Updated 9/28/2025