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Engaging Lessons . Using Games to enhance/review concepts in your classroom. Games. Students are naturally competitive Use this competitive spirit to keep students engaged in your lesson and enhance their learning. Students will practice being in a cooperative setting
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Engaging Lessons Using Games to enhance/review concepts in your classroom
Games • Students are naturally competitive • Use this competitive spirit to keep students engaged in your lesson and enhance their learning • Students will practice being in a cooperative setting • Students will remember and truly understand the material much better with games
Golf(objective is to recognize and understand fragments, run-ons, and sentences) • You will need 18 4x6 notecards • Each card will have two (2) examples of either a fragment, run-on, or sentence • Give each group of students an index card and have them discuss and decide what the examples are • When enough time is given and each group decides, give a score and tally on whiteboard
Scoring • Team 1 correctly identified one and missed the other scoring a par (even) • Team 2 incorrectly identified both examples and scored a bogey (+1) • Team 3 correctly identified both examples and scored a birdie (-1) • Continue with the next holes for a cumulative score after 18 tries
Golf Game • Golf Game idea from “Project Intercept,” a district initiative from the mid nineties.