review games?

Question

does anyone know any review games for teaching?

Answer 1

I love playing review games with my students and they love it too! Take any game that you like or that the kids like. You can turn any regular game into a review game. Some ideas that I have used and have been successful in my classroom:

-Jeopardy (Make cards and categories. Put questions on the backs of the cards and split the class into teams. Let them pick a category and a dollar amount and play just like the game show.)

-Basketball (Split the class into teams and one person from each team answers a question. Make 1 point, 2 point, and 3 point questions. If that person gets it right, they get to pick one person from their team to make a basket. I usually bring in an empty box or empty, clean trash can and a cheap bouncy ball from the store. If the question was a 1 point question, they shoot from the one point line which is closest. If the question was worth 2 points, they get to shoot from the two point line, etc. I also usually give them 1 point for getting the answer right to begin with. So if they got a 3 point question right and make the shot as well, they get 4 points total on that turn.)

-Baseball (Played a lot like basketball, but I use an overhead of a baseball diamond and overhead manipulatives as the players on bases. And of course, use baseball rules instead of basketball rules.)

-Poker (It may sound strange, but let the kids draw cards if they get a question right. Make each of the types of hands worth different amounts of points. For instance, two of a kind may be worth 10 points, but a royal flush could be worth 100.)

-Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (Again, write multiple choice questions and let different students be the ones in the hot seat. Play just like the game show.)

-Around the World (Start with one student standing by another students' desk. Ask a question. If the student standing gets it right, they advance to the next person's desk. If the person sitting gets it right first, then the person standing sits and the person who was sitting advances to the next person's desk. The person to get around the classroom and back to their seat first, wins.)

-Picture Puzzle (Glue a poster of something the students will recognize. Like a Harry Potter poster or a poster of their favorite rap artist, or something like that. Cut it into puzzle pieces. On the back of each piece, write a question. Hide the questions all around the room. Let each student take a turn looking for the puzzle pieces all over the room. They may put their piece into the puzzle if they can answer the question on the piece correctly.)

-Golf (Set up a putting green. You can buy little fake ones at Wal-Mart. Ask students questions. If they get one right, they can putt. If they sink the putt, they get points.)


These are just some ideas that I've used that have worked with 6 and 7 year olds all the way up to high schoolers. I hope this helps. Again, just take ANY game and you can turn it into a review game.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I play a lot of the games mentioned above, but I had never heard of the golf idea or the puzzle. Good ideas!

I also have a board game that I photocopy. Kids can use anything that they have as board pieces. Type up questions and put them in an envelope. Kids can play on teams of 2 or groups of 4 (2 against 2 or each 1 on his own). They roll a die, take a question and if they can answer it they move forward the amount that they rolled. If they cannot answer it then they cannot move.

Make a checker board. The spaces should be black and white. In the white spaces write questions or vocabulary words. I use bingo chips for the checker pieces. I put 2 different colors of chips into baggies and have used them for a few years with no problems. The kids have to give the answer before they can move. If the answer is wrong then they cannot move there. It makes the game of checkers a little more intense. I even had kids ask to go to lunch late so that they could finish their game!

Battleship... make a grid. Put things on top and on side that they can match up. I teach Spanish so I use numbers 0-9 on one side, and by 10's up to 100 along the top. The kids will say for example "dos, ochenta" to tell their partner where they want to strike. The partner then asnwers hit sink or miss. Again, it is photocopied so that the students can mark the hits and misses and they also have to place their boats. I put 2 grids on one paper; one to keep track of their own boats and the other to keep track of the partners/opponent. I also use it for conjugating (pronouns on side, verbs along top).

Board races are fun and help a lot with the learning. When the kids know that we are going to the board they try hard to study so that they do not let their team down.

For jeopardy and millionaire you can use sentence boards, or you can make a powerpoint.

Concentration is a good one. You can do it as a whole class and use an overhead transparency. One side has the questions (vocab terms) and the other the matches (definitions). Use post it notes to cover them up. It is easy to remove them to reveal the choices without uncovering the whole board. I have also typed the words into text boxes and then had a student aid cut them apart. You need about 15 for most classes. Put each set into an envelope and let the kids play against a partner. This way you are sure that ALL students are actively involved, rather then some kids being passive as a whole class activitiy. Sometimes colored paper is better, because the white paper can be see through.

Word scrambles are a fun 5-10 minute activity that the kids can do in groups. Take terms for a certain chapter that are important and scramble them. The kids have to work together in small groups to unscramble them. It helps them to become familiar with the new terms and to get the spelling down. You can also have them define them as part of the task. The first 2 groups to finish get candy.

Flyswatter game; put answers all over the board. I write them with chalk; a peer of mine writes them on cardstock then puts sticky magnets on the back so she can reuse them every year. Divide the class in half and give one member from each team a flyswatter. Ask the question. The first person to hit the correct response gets a point. I set rules; you may only hit ONCE (otherwise you have that 1 kid who will hit EVERY word until you tell him it is right) and they may NOT hit each other!

Answer 3

I got a document with lots of games for different activities in the class, send me an e-mail with your address and I'll gladly send them to you.

Answer 4

Play Jeopardy. Let them do all the work.