High School - All Stand Alone Games

[kaymac]

In my own experience of showing one Kim Jong Il picture to my students when we were talking about blood types the reactions were not that great- boos, general insults, and assertions that Kim has no blood. I think it may have been embarrassing for the kids who had the same blood type on some level even. Given that my windows are also open for teachers passing I think I'd have to give this game a pass. Maybe if I had an extra class of advanced students where we could preface it by talking about propaganda or something, and then play.

[Cranberryopah]

This was tonnes of work! I was able to render them in doc if anyone's interested. I keep crashing when I try to upload the card doc file. I'll try again.

[JD]

I think this worked. I also fixed a later slide. Jenny's family lives, not live.

[huitailang]

this game worked great with my class. they took it with an attitude of general humor. the slides with "YOU" were a hit. thanks for the post.

[shhowse]

Clue seems to be a really difficult one to track down in Korea, in English anyway. I've been searching for awhile with no luck so far. If anyone happens to come across some for sale, please let me know where you found them.

[seoulsister]

It was impossible for me to find in Korea, so I ended up ordering it from eBay.

[Alex0909]

BAM game template. Tech. high school level.

[aodell]

After three years in Korea, Typhoon is still my favourite game!

For those not familiar with the game, here the basics:

On the board there's a grid. Each square is named A1 or B2, etc. I have made the grid into a powerpoint to be projected directly onto the whiteboard, but you can just as easily draw it.
When it's a team's turn, they pick any of the squares, which you then cross off to mark as done.
Each square corresponds to a question, bomb, or missile.
Questions are worth between 1 and 5 points, 1 being easy and 5 being hard.
If answered incorrectly, the next team has a chance to answer. If they can't answer, the next team may, until all teams have tried once. There are no negative points (except for loud obnoxious teams!).
I usually give them a time limit on answering before I pass their turn.
If a team chooses a square that corresponds with a bomb, they lose all their points. Since I have classes organized into 7 teams, I say that bombs erase the points of the team who found the bomb as well as the teams immediately next to them. (So if team 2 found a bomb, teams 1, 2 and 3 lose all their points).
A missile is the opposite of a bomb. If team 2 finds a missile, teams 1, 2 and 3 are safe. But teams 4-7 lose all their points.

It's a pretty exciting game because everything can change at the last minute! Even the worst team can win!

In this game, I asked questions about common mistakes Korean students make.
Some are spelling questions (they are the ones that just appear as a word with a point value, ex: Shoes. 1). As soon as the kids make one wrong letter, I pass them.
Some are questions about numbers. The students have to say what the number is in English. After the first number question, I quickly explain to them how to read English numbers (up to a trillion even!). I have them copy it down in their notes for later usage. (I teach it by first teaching 100,100,100,100,100 then 200,200,200,200,200 then 202,202,202,202,202 then 222,222,222,222,222. They seem to grasp it pretty quick after that!) I usually don't stick to the numbers in the squares. I just try to make it progressively harder as they understand it better.
For fun, some are questions about movies. I name an actor and they have to name a movie they starred in. If they say the movie name in Korean, that's a wrong answer.
And since I have a giant world map in my classroom, there are also questions about world capitals (수도). For these, they were allowed to run to the map.
And there are random questions about fruits and vegetables.

This is a pretty random game and a lot of fun. But I found by the end of the day, the students had fixed their most common spelling mistakes and can then count up to a trillion!

[thankQ]

I found this today, it's amazing!!!

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/ppt-games/

[ichyc]

This is a pretty basic game that the kids get into. I teach 2nd and 3rd Graders of a reasonably high level, but it has also worked well with lower level students.

Divide the class into teams (I have around 40 students, and go for 8 teams of 5). Explain to them that you will reveal one sentence/clue at a time. If they guess the answer to the riddle correctly with just one clue, then their team receives 5 points. Two clues gains 4 points, three clues 3 points and so on. The important thing that they need to understand is that they get only 1 chance per question, so if they try to guess early to gain the highest points but are wrong, then their team is out until the next round.

There are 50 questions here, so you can divide them up and use a few each class if you have extra time, or use them in bigger chunks for post-exam classes etc. Hope this works for you, and let me know if you have any hints to improve it.

[lizardflix]

I just wanted to mention this thing I started this week although I'm sure people already do it.   Basically I've introduced a Jenga game as an addition to another game.  I won't do this every week but it has really added a lot of excitement and drama to the games and students are clearly more motivated to get the answers right. 

What I do is introduce the game (this week was Jeopardy) and then bring out the Jenga.  The just seeing it come out creates interest in the students.  Then I explain that as the game progresses, each team must play one round after they answer their question.  They have to do this whether their answer is correct or not (I want the jenga tower to build quickly).   If the stack falls, that team loses all their points.    I was a little worried at first that this would be a little harsh but the students totally get and accept it.  A team in the lead can easily fall to last place in one move. 


To move things along more quickly, I take the last 6 blocks and stack them crosswise to each other and tell the students they have to continue the stacking in that manner.  I make these changes to normal Jenga because I want there to be a real challenge as the game progresses. 

Anyway, the results have surpassed my expectations and the only problems that I've seen is a little too much excitement that I'll have to figure out how to tone down without killing the fun.  I say Jenga but this is a Korean knockoff I got for about 5,000 won.  Real Jenga costs about 30,000 won. 

If anybody else has other uses for Jenga in a class of 20 teens, I'd love to hear them. 

Edit:  I uploaded the specific Jeopardy game I used for this class.  Of course any such game could be used for this. 

[ichyc]

Happy to hear this is proving useful. If anyone uses the template to create some more questions then it'd be great if you could post them here. I'm planning to make another 30 or so questions later this semester and I'll be sure to upload them when I'm done.

Cheers

[jksmith6]

This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you so much for posting this :) I'll see if I have time to add some additional questions in the near future.

[jksmith6]

This sounds like a great idea. What type of questions do you ask your students for Jeopardy? Could you possibly send a link?

[exodus2171]

I have tried using jenja in my discussion class. I write down "thinking" question on the blocks for the students. Now not only do they have to pull a block out, they have to read the correlating question and answer if. Once i am satisfied with the answers that i have gotten, i tell them to let the next team/person go. There are only 15 kids in the class, so it is easily handled by my co-teacher and myself

[lizardflix]

I tried using Jenga for particular questions but for me it dragged in a large class.  This method means the stack is going to fall in not too many moves and I believe the kids get invested quicker.

The jeopardy questions were all related to my "What did you do during Break" lesson last week.  I'll upload it later here.  I just gave them clues and they had to form sentences from that and the category they chose. 

Another great thing is a game of this(with Jenga) lasts an entire 50 minutes and the kids are actually creating sentences the whole time. 

[barcode]

This sounds awesome, I am just starting and always worried about what I'll do if a lesson runs short.  Thanks.

[Here2day]

A long time ago a downloaded a powerpoint which was along the lines of a bombgame and when you clicked on it it presented a subject and had a countdown time for one minute. The person then needed to speak about that subject for one minute.

Hopefully you can help me find it! I have been searching the past hour with no luck so if you know the game please please post the link!!!!

[minceandcheese]

http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,1299.msg21726.html#msg21726

[Levviathen]

Hello,

Here is a fun way to get students warmed up or spend some after school class time with the old game show 'The Price is Right.'

Enjoy