Review games and ideas

You can also use it for classroom rewards. Students will love dropping the ball, and then you can ask them a question based on color-coded categories.

Get the full instructions here. Source: Love, Life, Celebrate. But maybe bring it out for a reward or special occasion. The trick here is getting students to go one at a time.

Source: The Star Spangled Planner. Have you heard of Kaboom? It seems like once teachers learn about this game, their students never stop wanting to play it. There are many ways to play, and blogger The Star Spangled Planner sums it up nicely. Check out her pro tips here. She uses it for history review, but you can use it for any subject you want. Source: Nurturing Learning. This is a simple idea from Nurturing Learning where you use soft-sided dice for curriculum review. The plastic pockets make it easy to slip in different categories or questions.

Source: The Learning Effect. Kahoot and Quizlet are a couple of our favorite online quiz websites, which this teacher writes about on her blog. Source: The Art of Education. Continue until only one student is left standing. Occasionally on missed questions, you can ask a student who is knocked out or sitting if they know the answer so they can rejoin.

Break the class up into two teams. Draw on the board for each team 8 lines like you would when playing the game Hangman. If a team gets the question correct, a letter is added to the opposing team. If they answer incorrectly, the other team gets a chance to answer. The first team to have schooled spelled out is the losing team. You could even pretend to be on a game show by bringing up a player from each team and having them face one another and placing one of their hands behind their back.

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Each student receives the same amount of Monopoly money. They are allowed to wager their money based on how confident they know the answer to the review question you ask. If they get the question correct, they keep the money, if they are wrong their money goes to the next person who gets the answer correct.

At the end of the game they can cash their money in for prizes. Family Feud — Divide students into two teams. One person from each team must go against one another to answer a review question. If they get it right their team gets a point. To engage the other students while they are playing, have the rest of the team write the answers to the questions in their journals.

The Hot Seat — For this review game, have one student sit facing the class. Write a vocabulary word on the board behind their seat. You can find downloadable Jeopardy formats on the internet, or create your own. To begin, create questions and answers worth a specific amount of points. Divide the students into two teams and have each team choose a number. Their goal is to answer the question that is attached to the number they chose.

Pass the Chicken — You will need to purchase a rubber chicken for this fun review game. To begin, have students sit in a circle. Randomly ask one student a review question while the rubber chicken gets passed around the circle.

The chicken is then passed to the next person, and so on. If they do, then they may get out of the pot and go back to the circle.