As the end of the school year approaches, teachers will begin to prepare students for their final exams. If you're like me, that means playing review games! Each day I play a different review game with my students. Here are my favorites.
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Battleship Battleship is an easy review game to throw together 10 minutes before class starts. I typically divide my class into two teams and have each student attempt to answer a question. Get it right and you get to fire on the other team, get it wrong and the other team has an opportunity to answer the question correctly and fire on you. It's a big game board so you can go through a lot of questions! This review game is ideally suited for an interactive whiteboard. I use my Wiiboard when I play this game. The students enjoy coming up to the screen and choosing a square to reveal. |
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Jeopardy Today I split my classes up into groups of three to four students and gave each group a clicker. We then went through the entire Jeopardy board (20 questions today). I use questions from tests they took this semester. The clicker system keeps track of the team scores and after the time runs out for each question the correct answer is displayed on the screen. This provides an opportunity to talk about the question and why one answer is better than the rest. At the end of the game I show the scores and crown the Jeopardy champion! As far as review games go, Jeopardy requires a significant amount of work to set up. Before class I went through all of my old tests and transferred the questions onto the game board. Jeopardy isn't the game you want to use if you need something quick, but if you have time to plan ahead it's always a class favorite. |
Editor's Note:
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What review games do you play with your students? Do you have any suggestions? Let me know in the comments!
Until next time,
John Sowash
Google Certified Teacher
John Sowash is a high school teacher and the Director of Online Learning for Global Christian School Online. John is a Google Certified Teacher and Trainer and enjoys providing inspirational professional development training for schools and businesses. You can connect with John via his blog (electriceducator.com) or Twitter (@jrsowash).
