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| Zap Board I made and used for Science Review - it can be used for any subject! |
You'll need the following supplies to make the board:
- Library pockets (or make your own! - I did!)
- Poster board
- Cue cards to write the Zap! clues on
So I've been teaching this Science unit about the Circulatory system and as we've come to the end I had to come up with a review activity I wanted to do with the students. After checking online and thinking about the things I've done as a student in the past I came up with Zap!
...OKay so I didn't actually come up with it, someone who posted it on Pinterest did and here it is!
The thing I liked the most about Zap! is that it can be used for almost any subject review because it is a game. What happens is:
1) Get the students to make up review questions from their textbook. Make some of your own as well to ensure the important topics are getting hit.
2) Brake them into teams and number them off - this will ensure there is no arguments over who goes first/last and each student gets a turn. It also allows you to do this beforehand and to split them up by ability.
3) Get each team to make up a name and set up the game board (made ahead of time)
4) Ask each team a question from the list, going in order of teams and in order of each person on the team.
5) If the team gets a question wrong it is passed from team to team until someone gets it right or it comes all the way back around. If it makes it back around the original team gets a point.
6) If a team gets the question right they get a point but they also pick a number off of the game board. The number is a pocket that holds cards - each card has a variety of things:
- Switch scores with another team
- Add 2 points to your (or another) team's score
- Take points away from your (or another) team's score.
- or ZAP! (yours, one team, or all) which eliminates all points.
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| Some examples of Zap! cards I've made. |
This sounds like so much fun! I did Jeopardy review with my class once and they LOVED it, but it's nice to learn about other methods that are still game-like while using a different format. I do have one question - did you moderate the questions that students came up with? I know that your grade level was higher, so maybe they already had the skill set to do that successfully. I was just wondering how much extra prep time that process might add.
ReplyDeleteWell I found that it did not take too much time to make up my own questions. I also looked through the questions they completed and circled ones I liked, using those papers when we played the game. The only trick is that you have to remember to give them their questions back at the end so they can study from them :)
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