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| Games are a great way to imbed skills and increase student interest! |
Our students love games - let's give them games that have an imbedded skills review! It's a win-win when students can enjoy the novelty and pleasure of playing, and we can give them additional exposure to practicing skills.
When using games, you have a choice. You can use the format of traditional games (think Bingo or Monopoly) and change the spaces, cards, or numbers using information that you want to review. The benefit of this type of game is that most students already know how to play the games. However, you can also opt to create your own games using game boards that you can design yourself. Then you can create the rules for the game.
The Jefferson County school system in Tennessee has a website that contains a wealth of information about using both types of games. You can get pre-made bingo or wordo cards, powerpoint versions of Jeopardy, Password, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Wheel of Fortune, as well as Excel games - even the Twister game. If you prefer to design your own game, you can download and print off specially designed game boards that relate to your grade and subject:
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/wordo.html
Enjoy,
