A fun, collaborative, summative assessment game
Jeopardy is not just a fun way to review material at the end of a unit - what I really love about it is that it makes me narrow down key concepts, information or understandings to the 25 tiles available.
Selecting these top-priority content pieces upfront allows me to have clarity in the middle of a lesson on the points I want to drill in or check for understanding on. It also helps pin down key terms and help layout potential scaffolding by ordering the answers from easiest to most difficult.
Using this specific tool, you can save, edit and share Jeopardy games for free, so they can easily be reused or modified to meet the needs/ interests of a particular cohort. It can also be shared with students afterward as a study tool.
I set up this Civil Rights Movement Jeopardy as a fun way to review at the end of our unit. The game is super easy to set up for your own purposes, but if you are looking for one specific to the Civil Rights Movement, look no further!
I had a middle school Spanish teacher who used Jeopardy in her class and it was always a favorite for myself and my peers. As a teacher, I see it as a great tool to formally assess the knowledge base I have built for my students to help me gauge what topics my students connected with most.
To play, students break into groups of 3-4, are assigned a number and are given a team buzzer. (I got these ones, but if you have the budget there are better options available that display which team buzzed first).
Team one chooses a category and a point value and students rotate as speakers to request their answer. For example, "We'll take Groups for 100." By clicking on the appropriate box, the answer will appear. Then all groups have the opportunity to quietly discuss and hit their buzzer when they feel they know the correct response. A team member will phrase the response like a question.
If the team is correct you use the plus sign at the bottom associated with the appropriate team to add the points and then that team gets to choose the next box. If the team is incorrect, you use the minus sign to detract the amount of points from that team.
At the end of the game, the team with the most amount of points wins. To make things fun I brought in these pop-it keychains as prizes for the winners.
If you want to play, just head over to my Civil Rights Movement Jeopardy game!
Happy learning!
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