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A media literacy simulation teaching concepts like media bias, framing, sound bites, and chyron bias, applied through a press secretary/news anchor roleplay game.
Match domino tiles whose terms/statements/questions on light reflection and refraction correspond to each other (e.g. matching a term to its definition or a diagram feature to its label), following standard dominoes play rules (draw 7 tiles, match ends, first to empty hand wins).
Choose the body-system or organelle set and review unfamiliar terms before play. Model questions about function or location so students use science knowledge to eliminate possibilities.
Play the printed Snakes and Ladders board game, answering the question printed on each numbered square when landed on (e.g., name a famous Chilean person, describe two important historical events, identify the currency and describe the economy, describe a place worth visiting in Chile).
Play a Jeopardy-format review game (teams or individually), selecting categories and point values to answer questions about Shakespeare's life and each Act of the play.
Answer trivia questions about digital citizenship and cyberbullying (e.g. social media age restrictions, what counts as cyberbullying, digital footprint, data mining) to claim tic-tac-toe squares, playing in teams or as a class.
A physical education game packet of 10 net/racket/striking games (each named after a popular streaming show), each with a lesson plan, gym layout visual, and supplemental materials, to build net-game skills, teamwork, and striking with an implement.
Read biographical/historical content about astronomers, complete an astronomers chart, play a history-of-astronomy timeline card game, build a lapbook on the planets, and complete a space-exploration timeline; the introduction also references word searches and crossword puzzles as part of the study.
A multi-activity worksheet packet reviewing multiplication/division facts, factors, multiples, prime factorization, and LCM/GCF for older students who still need fact fluency practice.
This is a World History II Jeopardy Review Game. There are 6 categories for students to review: - World religions - Empires - Revolutions - Nationalism - WWII / Cold War - Who Am I?
review DNA and DNA replication vocabulary (e.g. nucleotide, helicase, replication fork, Okazaki fragments) through a BINGO-style game
In small groups, select numbered squares on a 64-square point board and answer the corresponding personality-psychology question to earn points, with a steal mechanic for incorrect answers and one 'Bazinga' bonus square.
Role-play apartment seeker/owner conversations using provided apartment listing cards; play a 'Price is Right' style grocery-cost guessing game and use a calculator to score it; track personal/family monthly expenses in a notebook; play a dice relay game to practice saving for goals; make a labeled 'money saving…
Provide a novel-agnostic student notebook/packet that scaffolds independent or small-group literary analysis of any assigned novel through scavenger-hunt-style element identification, open-ended questioning, central-idea tracking, and a culminating essay.
Solve kinematics word problems (average velocity, projectile motion, acceleration, hang time, displacement) at task-card stations placed around the room, record answers, and match answers to words on a posted chart to assemble a hidden quote.
Students analyze each group of four terms and determine which one does not belong with the others, applying neuroscience vocabulary knowledge.
In teams, one student ('the giver') describes a landform-related keyword on their card to teammates without using the word itself or 5 listed taboo words; teammates guess the word to score points.
Get assigned a U.S. state to represent as Senator, review a scoring spreadsheet showing point gains/losses for that state on each of 8 bills, negotiate and make deals with classmates before voting, vote on all 8 bills as a class, and tally final scores to see who achieves a positive score ('gets re-elected')…
A 7-week Physical Education scheme of work (unit plan) for teaching Grade 10 basketball, covering tactical awareness, skills, and full-game play.
Students play a board game, moving a pawn along numbered squares; landing on a square prompts a task such as naming cities, dishes, or famous people of France, describing a historical event, or answering a reflection question about visiting France.
Study character relationships and genealogy, complete multiple-intelligences project options, engage with a Jeopardy-style review game, and map characters/plot on a love-and-hate schematic.
Students solve algebra practice problems presented as puzzles and games (e.g. a cross-number puzzle, symbol-matching/shading activity, and a 'follow the answers to the treasure' properties-of-real-numbers exercise).
Students play a board game, moving a pawn along numbered squares; landing on a square prompts a task such as naming cities, dishes, or famous people of Japan, describing a historical event, or answering a reflection question about visiting Japan.
Play a chain-matching dominoes game, matching a term or statement (e.g. 'the symbol for helium', 'the Latin name for sodium', 'molecule of a compound') to its correct answer tile (e.g. 'He', 'Natrium') around the domino chain.