Please read TSSFFAP Chapter 5 (Gluing Students to Their Seats and Other Fun Social Science Games and Activities) and do the on-line quiz. Also, look through the games on the “Gluing Students to Their Seats” blog:
http://socialstudiesgames.blogspot.com/
Prepare a learning game/activity and play the game with any group of students you choose. If you are doing your junior field experience, it would be great if you could try your game with the students in one of your classes. If you are having trouble finding a group to play your game, let me know. I can arrange for my IDL students (or perhaps my History 424 students) to play the game.
After you have presented your "learning game," post it here and add a description of how the game went.
After you have presented your "learning game," post it here and add a description of how the game went.
This game can be used with any number for groups, at least 2 groups with 3 people on a team. Most school floors have title flooring and you can use that as a game board, if carpet, then use scotch tape to make 10 squares for a start and finish. Have a number of questions to ask, then each group is asked the same question. The students will agree on a piece of paper and read it out loud. The groups that get it right, step forward one step. If they get it wrong the first time, they stay in the square they are in. If they get two wrong in a row, that's two steps back. Three wrong in a row, three steps back and so on. The start line is the furthest back they can go. So, its a race to the finish line. If they reach the end at the same time, it turns into a duel with harder questions. That will go on till one team gets it right and one gets it wrong.
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't suppose students would learn that much about the Civil War, but the sock battle sounds like a lot of fun anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in 8th grade, we had a student whose dad was a semi-professional film producer. He made it possible for us to produce a filmed version of Pickett's charge. Students more than 10 years later still had to watch our movie.
Simple is good. This would work well as a review game. An interesting variant might be to have the ball tossed high in the air with the answer required before the ball is caught.
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun. Got a name for your game?
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