POWER POINT GAMES
ADAPTING THE POWER POINT TO FIT YOUR STUDENTS’ NEEDS!
The example of the Word Wall Jeopardy Game can be adapted to meet your needs in the classroom. Keeping the same set up, simply copy the Power Point slides to your computer and change the words being reviewed or tested.
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The Word Wall Jeopardy Game can be saved and completely revised to serve as a test or review of history, biology, health, etc. terms that you want the student to know.
My students will use the Word Wall Jeopardy Game as a review before the actual vocabulary test using team points. Students will be placed in groups of 3 to form teams. Each team will take turns choosing a question from the Word Wall – points (bricks) are included for each category but all teams write an answer when the question comes up on the screen. If a team chooses correctly, the computer will give them a positive “You’re Correct” and “knock down” the number of bricks associated with that question. If the team’s answer was incorrect, the slide will have a sad face and no bricks will be knocked down for that team for that round. How do they choose their answer – just like the game of Jeopardy, they write it down and hold their answer up ONE AT A TIME!!
The object of the game is to “tear down the walls of ignorance” FIRST. So, the team with the most bricks down at the end of the presentation WINS!
Adaptation to Game: Have the students review the words on their own by downloading the game and practicing on a laptop or at home.
Another Adaptation to the Game: Print out a copy of the slides with the questions and give it as a quiz or test. Then go over the Power Point version for corrective feedback!
HAVE FUN!!!
EVALUATIVE REPORT ON “WORD WALL JEOPARDY”
I implemented the Power Point called “Word Wall Jeopardy” to my English II transition class which consists of six 10 th grade students who are classified as 504 and have are at least three grades below grade level in reading and writing. The goal of the class is to create a learning environment that is more responsive to their individual learning styles so that they will have a better chance of passing the state mandated TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) in the Spring.
I decided to call it “Word Wall Jeopardy” because the students actually read aloud, point out words they do not know in the oral reading and physically create a word brick with 10 new words they do not know using a preschool cardboard play brick. Since the students are tactile learners, they spend time decorating their word wall brick, typing out the words in various fun fonts in Word, locating the definitions of the words and attaching clipart or hand drawn pictographs to represent the words. After the word bricks are completed, we add them to our wall which right now (it’s early in the year) consist of a spiraling stair that is half way to the ceiling in my classroom.
I created the Power Point and then connected my computer to a projector in order to show the slides on a larger scale and make the game more visually appealing. The class split up in to 3 groups of 2. They were given a small lap chalkboard and a piece of chalk and eraser. You can get the perfect size cheap at Dollar General!
I wasn’t sure how it would play out with the points, but I soon found that it really didn’t matter because the students really loved the game. They liked writing their answers secretly on the chalk board and seeing the words on the big screen. I will definitely use this game – each week in fact for review. When I gave out the test last week- all of the students passed with flying colors.
My goal is to save the slides and eventually print them all out as the semester vocabulary test. It will save me time going back and retyping out the questions! I had never heard of Power Point games before and was intrigued. I am glad I took the time to watch the skill videos and build my own. I didn’t even know you could “link” your slides to play as a game! THANK YOU!!
Submitted by: Angelia Greiner
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