Korean Culture Jeopardy

[thedudepeters]

I used this with my 2nd grade middle school boys.  They really enjoyed it.

I have 36 students in each class so the way I have the class set up is by having 6 teams each with small white boards and markers/erasers.  I roll a 6 sided die to choose the team who will select the category.  They select category/point value and we read the question as a class (slowly).  I count down from 10 usually and then say boards up.  I have the boys hide their answers until then.  I count slower or faster depending on the difficulty of the question.  After they show their boards then I click on the slide revealing the picture and then answer.  Then they shout and celebrate!  It's a lot of fun.  If only one team gets the correct answer, I'll let them choose the next category/points; if not I just roll the die to select.

Enjoy!

[bleakronnie]

That's amazing, it must've taken a lot of work.
Question: Where did you get 6 small white boards?!

[thedudepeters]

My school has a ton of these little white boards.  Ask your co teacher to buy some if it's in the budget to do so...

[bleakronnie]

I've converted the .ppt to a .key for mac users and sorted out the compatibility issues. However this site doesn't allow uploading of .key files so if you want it, message me and I'll mail it to you. 

[kmark]

If you don't have white boards, we laminated some regular printer paper. They work pretty well and will last longer than expected. White board markers work best, but most of my students have marker pens they can use and erase them with pencil erasers.

[gmhahn]

Thank you so much for this. I've seen a lot of games posted on here lately, and they're all good, but I like this one since it's simple and easy to use!

[hankmcmasters]

wow.  i cant believe this has been downloaded 500 times.

i wonder if anyone can tell me about the students' response to these questions.  are they ever too easy?
im wondering if they are.  all of the students are korean, and many of them have been taught lots of korean history.

i've played bomb games before where the questions were just simple enough that the game turned into a race to scream out the answer/raise your hand first/or flail the answer board.

[thedudepeters]

hank-to prevent it from being a race, I count down from 10 and have all the groups raise their whiteboards.  Any team with the right answer gets points.  I don't play it like traditional jeopardy...in a way, my title is a little misleading!     I guess it should be called "boards up" or "white board game."

[hankmcmasters]

after playing this game with my classes yesterday I decided to make some changes

i rewrote the rules, turning them into bullets.  i find that my students turn off their brains when there is too much English on the screen.

i rewrote a lot of the questions, making them more simple, correcting others.  Yin Yang is chinese, 음양 eum yang is the korean equivalent.

i rearranged the art slides, i think the difficulty level matches the point value better this way.  i would give all the lifestyle questions double the point value, if i could figure out how to do this without breaking the hyperlinks.  my students had lots of trouble with those questions

I fixed a typo or two as well

usually this game takes up the whole class period perfectly. 

thanks for the original upload.

[chadteacher]

Thanks, guys, I'll be putting this to use.

[ToniV]

hankmcmasters, what did u want to explain in bullet point number 1? It is just a bullet after the number 1. This is on slide number 2.

I really want to use this, but I need to know what you meant first.

Thanks!

[hankmcmasters]

for bullet one I wrote this:

돈트 스피크 코리안
   왜냐하면 죽을 거예요

which says:  dont speak Korean
because you will die

i picked a font that i thought looked better, and today in class that bullet showed up as a black DOT.  so, ive switched back to the ugly default font.

anyways, if they speak korean, i.e. chat a lot in korean while discussing the answer, i subtract ten points.
this can be a huge challenge for the students, especially because they are talking about korean culture.

another rule that ive implemented when one team got further ahead was subtracting the point value for wrong answers.  one class's winner had -10 points.  there were a lot of wrong answers.

[ToniV]

Crazy! Of course, after you told me what you wrote, I went to change the ppt i downloaded and it was already there! the DOT was no longer visable... ooh... s-t-r-a-n-g-e...... lol

thanks!

[hankmcmasters]

and, the slide for namul has a terrible picture. the picture has namul in it, but also a lot of other things, making it look like bibimbap

[hankmcmasters]

i changed the picture and some questions

nothing major, but its better

[JDK]

When a questions is finished and I return home, the point value for that question doesn't disappear or change colors. Is this a compatability problem, or just the way the game was designed?

[hankmcmasters]

when i played it the numbers changed colors after i clicked them

[bfontaine]

Wow great stuff. Will put this to use.