Week of Giveaways: Day 2

For Day 2 of our giveaways, we are sharing both Back to School Feud Powerpoint Games.

Just like the classic game show, Family Feud, these classroom powerpoints are sure to bring the fun and competition into your class!!  They make exciting ice breaker while also reviewing some classroom expectations.

Includes all the bells and whistles of the original game, including:
- theme song
- bells for correct answers
- buzzers/disappointed audience for incorrect guesses
- colorful clipart
- EDITABLE, so you can add/edit questions and answers to suit your needs

The powerpoint also flows perfectly, allowing you to move from round to round with the click of the mouse, and by clicking the gameshow host you jump back to the board to update scores! 

Each game includes 3 Rounds and 5 Fast Money questions, along with directions and key.
Examples:
~ "Name a common classroom rule."
~ "Name a way your teacher can tell you are not paying attention."
~ "Name a reason a student might raise their hand in class."

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*Contest ends tonight at 11:59pm CT.

Classroom Feud Games







These are my new and favorite lessons: Classroom Feud!  My kids love playing them and have really grasped the vocabulary.

 

 

You can get all "Feud-Themed" items for 15% off at my store all week!!

 

You can create your own games for your class or to sell:

 



 

Or sit back and play a game that has already been created for you:



~Mrs. Scott

Wii in the Classroom

My husband and I bought this game some time around my first year of teaching 8th grade math: As soon as we started playing I realized some of the games had objectives that I had been teaching in class!

Perspectives:
Ordering Numbers:
I had the bright idea to unplug my Wii and take it to school! I think it was the most engaged my class of 35 students had been all year! Since then, I make a point to have "Wii day" a couple of times a year and the kids could not be more excited!

I have looked on Amazon and found a couple of other educational Wii games, but haven't bought any yet. Maybe future grant?

ThinkSMART appears to have games best for high school: Science Papa lets you explore chemistry, biology, physics, and paleontology through science experiments.
Reader Rabbit has a couple of games for early elementary grades (I think I saw Pre-K through 3rd grade).
My Word Coach looks like it would be great for GT and high school classes, but may be a fun warm-up for a typical middle school classes too.

Jump Start advertises being great for ages 5-9.As if you haven't seen this show! Upper elementary classes would love this:
We recently bought an XBox Kinect for our son and may have to start checking out games for that too! If you know any other games, please share!

~Mrs. Scott

WAR!!!

My students have had a blast playing the card game War in class this week!

Remember War, the game where each player flips over a card and the person with the highest card gets them both? We put a spin on it for math, putting fractions on the cards to be compared (picture and numerical versions). Later next week we are going to use decimals, and then mix the stacks to compare both.

I have also thought about making other decks in the future for...

Math comparing:
Rational numbers
Squares/square roots
Scientific notationArea/perimeter/volume

Language Arts comparing:
Number of syllables
Number of nouns/adjectives/verbs in a sentence or paragraph

Science comparing:
Number of protons/neutrons/electrons
Age of trees based on tree ringsTemperature by reading thermometers
Calculated speed/force/energy

I would love to hear your suggestions as well!
~Mrs. Scott