Book? Who Needs the Book? Games That Teach !

1. Book? Who Needs the Book? Games That Teach! Morton Ranch High School- Katy ISD Courtney Bathe Christi Hurley Melissa Smith Ashlee Woods

3. Fun Classrooms Avoid Discipline Problems! Play Music Change Your Style Embrace and Move On Be exciting! Think outside of your box! Make your room exciting and the place to be!

4. Sometimes Smart kids do dumb things…. Can opener Can of Biscuit

5. How to use Games • Review for test • Stimulate conversation • Bell Ringer (starter) • Check their knowledge (to see if retest needed)

6. Games • Minute to Win It • Team that wins the challenge then gets bonus questions to answer. Group that answers questions correctly gets to play game for bonus points.

8. Nutrition Related: • Blow rice grains across table and catch it in a cup. • Using spaghetti noodle string penna pasta onto the noodle, can not use hands. • Catch shell pasta in a Dixie cup tossed to student from a partner. • Pass noodle from one student to another using only a spoon held in student mouth. • Eat a plate of popcorn without using your hands. • Move a teddy gram cookie down students face without hands while setting in a chair. Need 2 students, one to sit and one to place cookies on forehead. • Clip as many food coupons as you can. You could break it into just fruits or vegetables, etc. • Name as many __________’s without repeating the same thing twice. Types of cookies, types of fruits, kinds of cereals, etc. • Trash can toss a wad of paper, student could be blindfolded, or toss backwards. •  Set the table in less than a minute

9. Minute to win it Dixie toss!

10. Child Development: • Clip as many baby related items from newspaper ads. • While tasting baby food they must identify its flavors. • Diaper as many baby dolls as possible in 1 minute. • Match the definition with picture of body parts.

11. Fashion Related: • Thread 3 sewing needles within 1 minute. • Thread sewing machines against time. • Fill and wind a bobbin the fastest.

12. What’s for Dinner? • Cut up grocery store ads and place those foods into a grocery bag. Students then must create a well balanced meals using only the groceries given. A change could be that they use the food given and then allowed to purchase additional items within a budget to complete their meal. Students must write out a menu, and recipes to go with the meal they create.

13. Food Chains • Students must log their food consumption for 3 days. Students then break their log into categories and for each serving from the food groups they add a link to their food chain. I use the following colors of construction paper cut into 1x10 inch strips. Grain =orange, Milk=blue, Protein=purple, fruit=red, vegetables=green, empty calories or fats=yellow. Students should link foods according to like groups; meaning all the grains together then fruit, then vegetables, etc. Students can then lay out their own chains and compare and contrast their food intake with classmates. Students can discuss how in increase needed servings and discuss how to improve their daily nutrient intake.

14. Fiber Search • Lay out empty food wrappers and boxes around the room. • Students make a list of 15 food sources from around the room and their fiber content. • Student with the highest finer total wins a prize. This will take a 10 minutes or so.

15. Chopped • Give students a secret ingredient to prepare as their own creation. I like to use Cauliflower. (Taste is mild, and many are willing to eat it. The students really like it. Just lay out all the leftovers from your refrigerator and allow the students to use what they think would be tasty. Give students suggestions on pleasing flavor combinations. Suggest ways that the main ingredient can be prepared. I suggest steaming, boiling, mashing, stir-frying, etc. Let them choose what seasonings would be best for their preparation techniques. Students at the end of class must present their creation and describe using the correct preparation terms how they made the dish.

16. The Great Grain ID • Place a small sample of grain products in individual sandwich bags. Label each bag with letters and have students guess what each item is. I like to use different types of pasta to see if students know thin spaghetti from penne or shell noodles. I usually give the students a list of that are on the table and let them place the letter beside the correct answer. Group with the most correct gets a prize.

17. Games for Housing/ Interior Design • Have students identify the various lines the quickest • Show pictures of home and have them place in correct time period the quickest. (Quickest in a minute)

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19. This was found on pinterest.com and would be great in interior design or child development. Create a toy for a school age child.

20. Interior Design - Show pictures while describing the house, neighborhood, etc to students ask them to choose the one that costs the most. 4/2/2 located in Katy Texas- 3200 sq feet. Large back yard. 2/1 studio located in New York City- 325 sq feet. 3rd floor walkup.

21. New York City!!! Get a Rope! $200,000.00 $249,000.00

22. Model Home Villages • Interior Design field trip to model home showcase. • Lets students identify all concepts learned in class. • Fun to get ideas for their future.

23. Interior Design Class • Chandelier from yarn, water, glue, and a balloon. • Could also be used as a craft in a child development class. • Blow up balloon, dilute white glue with water in a cup. Use yarn to wrap around the balloon and then paint yarn with the glue mixture. When dry pop the balloon and mount on a drop light. • Fun way to dress up a students room.

24. Games- Fashion Related • Who can name the texture by touch the quickest • Show pictures of various clothes and have kids put in correct spot – fad, classic, avantegarde • Matching game – sewing equipment definition, picture and use.

25. Fashion Decade? • Fashion Design - Show pictures of different time periods and have students arrange them under the correct time period • Match the year to the photo. • Fastest table wins! • Photos are on one set of cards and years on another set. • Years include: 100AD 1600 1700 1900 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2010

26. Fashion Decade

27. Fashion Decade 2010 100 AD 1700 1990 1950 1970

29. 1920 1940 1930 1960 1900 1980

30. Trashy or Flashy • Create Outfit from recycled objects. • Great ideas can be found on pinterest.com

31. Recycled Paper Challenge • Make a garment out of newspaper, magazines, duct tape, soda bottles, wrapping paper. These photos are from the internet and not our students!!

32. Easy fashion design! Great for Jr. High My sweet Callee! She is a student at Bremond Jr. High School! Go Tigers!

33. Fashion Related Activities • Accessorize a mannequin • Mini Me outfit draped on mannequin • Make a hat using elements and principles of design and wear it. • Sew on small scale- have student cut out the fabric pieces from the patten guide and make it on a small scale first. • Make a Quillow- this is a blanket that folds up into a pillow. • Sew a beach towel into a roll up bag for the pool, unrolls into a chair cover and has place to keep phone. Pinterest!

34. Memory Quilt • Make a quilt out of old t-shirts. • Cut 15 inch squares from the front and back of students favorite shirts. • Then sew them together 3 across and 4 down. • Perfect for a football game or lap quilt at nursing home.

35. Review Ball- General to be used by all! • Find a large plastic children’s ball and write review questions on it. Have the students toss the ball around the room and whatever question the students thumb lands on they have to try to answer that question.

36. Relay • Great way to teach a process. Divide class into teams, team member must stay in order and if they do not properly complete task they are out and the task must be preformed by the next team member. Once task is done properly then they may advance to next step of recipe, process, • Students love this one • Use this anywhere you want to teach steps to something. • Multi step math problems • Recipes • Order

37. Eggriffic- • plastic Easter Eggs get recycled. • Teams must get their eggs into the basket. Students must move egg down the room without touching them, they can flap a folder, blow them with a straw, etc. If a team misses the question they are not allowed to move egg until they get it right. Question back and forth until all the eggs are gone. Team with most eggs in basket wins. Can be used in all subjects, place review questions inside egg.

38. Trash can toss with plastic eggs!

39. -What Am I? • Quick game where you give clues to the answers you want. • What am I? I am found in pasta, and I'm the main source of energy for the body.- (Carbohydrates) • Trashket Ball • Newspapers from the recycling bin gets a second chance. • Ask review question and correct answer gets to wad up paper and take a shot, team with the most points win.

40. YOUTUBE.com • Unwrapped from the food channel- less than 5 minutes. Find out how gummy worms are made. • Undercover boss- great to show different jobs and their challenges as they pertain to a career. I like the one about pretzels. • Child abuse PSA • Sometimes I show old commercials can get the class started, students love these. Great intro. • I am a farmer and I grow it. Clip is wonderful take of song I am sexy and I know it! • Fashion how to. See step by step.

41. Around the World • Great way to review, not just for elementary school. • Polleverywhere.com • Embrace cell phones by making them educational tools. • www.polleverywhere.com Student’s love that they get to use their phone. Provides instant feedback! Free to educators. Questions can be open ended, true false, or multiple choice.

42. Technology / Video clips Values.com TV shows This site provides PSA’s with positive messages. Subject include doing the right thing. Love the one where down syndrome child is elected prom queen. 2 kids passing notes during the test- one students writes back – lets not cheat. Child abuse, friendship, table manners, etc. Video clip from show Frasier, A valentine for Niles.- You tube it! About 6 minutes long. Niles breaks every safety rule known! Cuts himself, burns his pants, runs with scissors, ends with fire!

43. Family Game Night • Model in class what family game night should be. • Divide up let students play games, serve pop corn, or a fun meal. • Great time to interact and visit with family. Teach students how to get conversations started. • Generation Y children must be shown!

44. Something beautiful can come from something broken. • Clay box in placed in paper bag. • Each student gets to hit pot and name something that stresses families. • Using duct tape put the pot back together. Student’s then write on tape with sharpie resources that can help the family. • Plant seeds and watch them grow.

45. White Boards • Get shower board at Home Depot. • They will cut it into small pieces. • Can purchase them at the dollar store as well. • How to use it! • Brain storming • Gallery Walk • Games- students write their answers and hold it up. • Math problems • Drawing of designs prior to development. • Mapping of concepts or countries.

46. Jeopardy Game Show • Templates are all over the internet. • All classes can use this, good for all learners of multi level classes. • http://www.glenrosearkansasffa.com/lesson%20plans.htm • Pictionary • Great way to vocabulary

47. Ideas that can be used to teach children about healthy snacks!

48. Creative ways to get children to eat! Nutrition class would have to identify the nutrients and their functions in the dishes presented.

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50. Teacher Appreciation • “Thank you for helping students grow” • Great way to honor teachers during FCCLA week.