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Yom Ha'Atzmaut
Israel Independence Day
More than a Quiz Activity
Suggestion #1 - for younger participants:
Using line drawings of Israeli sites and some of your own, make an outline
map of Israel in several copies [one for each team] and run this as a
competitive activity for teams, each of which should have an Israeli name,
of course!
Use the "Israel Tour" below to make up location cards.
Teams receive an envelope with eleven place cards, another envelope
with all 22 line drawings, a packet of pins or tape and have to compete
to match the right drawings with their locations AND pin them on the map.
You can help them by having a control map on the wall or on a transparency.
Suggestion #2 - for teenagers:
"Inside Israel" a pre- or post-Israel Experience Media Program:
For this you will need to have slides of Israel or copy these and other
line drawings onto transparency to make your own slides. Alternatively,
take and make clips ahead of time from a few Israeli tourist film onto
a master tape.
You will also need tapes/cds of Israeli and Jewish music plus a means
of editing a soundtrack/video - and a lot of time!
The assignment can be prepared at various levels of sophistication -
just music with a series of slides or clips edited together or a fully
scripted magnus opus, focusing on any of the experiential aspects of going
to Israel, a diary around Israel, learning about Israel, the importance
of Israel. The tour material below will serve as background information
or a possible shot list.
Suggestion #3 - for teenagers:
As part of your events for Yom Ha'atzmaut, hold a short quiz with two
teams or four individual competitors. You will need projection equipment,
slides, line drawings.
Question cards can be made in either of the following ways, according
to level of knowledge:
Give the definition and ask for the famous place or:
Give the location and ask for why it is famous [3 points for each major
detail]
Alternatively:
Make this a family team competition, on the lines of "Give us a Word".
This means that there are two teams of four [2 or 4 families]. It is worthwhile
picking cards of equivalent difficulty and doing one round if time is
limited. If you are going to make an evening of it at a small community
gathering, you will obviously need more locations - more cards - and you
can change teams around so that everyone gets a chance to play.
The question master holds all the name cards and calls one person from
the first team, showing him or her the first card. The competitors' task
is to mime to their own team in absolute silence - and in under one minute
- the name of the place they are shown. Participants are allowed to use
conventions for indicating number of syllables, "sounds like" and so on.
A name guessed in 30 seconds brings 3 points; in 60 seconds - 2 points;
in 90-120 seconds - only 1 point.
Next, the question master calls the first person from the opposing team
and the game continues in this manner.
Israel Tour
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