Give Me Your Best Ideas For A Review Lesson (High School)

amother

OP ↓

Yesterday at 11:40 pm

I can't give a test yet, but I need to devote a lesson to review before moving further. Ideally it's something that doesn't require much prep on my part and somehow keeps the girls engaged and motivated to look back at their notes. It must be age appropriate and I much prefer lessons with structure. In general my method is to keep things moving constantly, so review is especially tricky. It's my first year teaching this material (which I don't want to share), so I need some fresh ideas, and I'll see which ones can be applied to this subject. Whatcha got for me?

amother

↑ OP ↓

Yesterday at 11:51 pm

amother Banana wrote:

Following

I have an idea that doesn't work for me, but might be useful to you. You have the girls fill in various words or phrases pertaining to the subject matter into a bingo board. For example in biology, they can put in all the names of the parts of a cell. In history, names and dates. Etc. Then you say the question and the girls need to cross out the box with the corresponding answer. The first girl with a line gets +1, and the first girl with the whole board gets +2. You need to check her answers against your questions because she might have crossed off the wrong answer, which then gives other girls another chance at winning. Realistically though, the girls usually call out the correct answer. Smile

This idea works very well because it keeps all girls busy all the time. It requires enough knowledge of the material in both phases of the game, filling in the box and answering the questions. You set the pace, how quickly or slowly to move.

I don't have how to incorporate it for my material right now.

BrachaVHatzlocha ↓

Yesterday at 11:54 pm

Games I have done:
Bingo using terms (say the definition and they have to cross out the word that matches)
Matching/memory of terms and definitions on index cards on the board (I do science. U can probably do same for history - names/dates, etc)
Conductor (this won't have them looking in their notes though ).
Pictionary (girls need to guess what one girl drew)

amother

↑ OP ↓

Yesterday at 11:57 pm

BrachaVHatzlocha wrote:

Thank you for your ideas. Bingo, matching, and pictionary won't work. I don't have many terms/definitions. Conductor is the only option here, but I'm wondering how well it works in a high school classroom. I'm concerned that the rest of the class wouldn't keep up while the two girls are being questioned. What's been your experience?

↑ BrachaVHatzlocha

Yesterday at 11:59 pm

amother OP wrote:

Some girls lose focus during any of the games. It might not work....

amother

Crocus ↓

Today at 12:05 am

BrachaVHatzlocha wrote:

How do you play Conductor?

amother

Strawberry

Today at 12:08 am

What is conductor?

Games I've done-
Races where I ask a question with multiple answers--5 roman emperors, 3 factors that lead to a war...and each team has to beat each other/the clock to write them on the board

Hangman, but instead of guessing letters the girl who chose the word gives clues

Around the world

amother

↑ OP ↓

Today at 12:08 am

BrachaVHatzlocha wrote:

Some girls lose focus during any of the games. It might not work....

Yeah, some girls lose focus while I'm teaching too. TMI

I remember playing conductor in elementary school for spelling/math and in junior high for all kinds of subject, but never in high school.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Today at 12:09 am

amother Strawberry wrote:

Can you explain more please? How is hangman a review of your material?

What is around the world?

amother

↑ OP ↓

Today at 12:10 am

Conductor goes like this:
The first girl in the first seat gets up and stands next to the girl in the second seat. Teacher asks a question. First girl to respond correctly moves on the next seat to compete with the next girl. The losing girl sits down in the seat where she lost. The game ends when a girl makes the full round and comes back to her own seat. She wins!

amother

↑ Banana ↓

Today at 12:42 am

amother OP wrote:

Love this! Thanks for sharing!
Will it get noisy? I always have a complex with the principal hearing noise out of my class LOL

amother

↑ Banana

Today at 12:43 am

amother OP wrote:

I agree.

amother

↑ OP

Today at 10:10 am

amother Banana wrote:

Love this! Thanks for sharing!
Will it get noisy? I always have a complex with the principal hearing noise out of my class LOL

It can get noisy, but not terribly IME because you keep it moving. The girls might call out the answers, and you can either go with it, or remind them that it's an individual game and they need to think the answer quietly (and they might not listen to you lol). Regardless, you're in charge of the game, so even if there's noise, it's not hefker. If the principal hears noise and comes to check it out, at least she'll like what she sees. Wink

Now pretty please do you have an idea for me? Subject matter is similar to math where specific examples are the only way to practice.

amother

↑ Crocus

Today at 12:37 pm

amother OP wrote:

Ah ok, conductor seems to be the same as around the world

For practice example games- what about whiteboards? Somehow, it's more fun to do the examples on your own whiteboard and hold up the answer. You can even play in teams and for each right answer, they receive a point on their team.

Or what about trashketball? You give them a problem to solve and choose one random girl on the team to say the answer, if correct, she comes up and stands by a line far away from the garbage can and gets to throw a ball, if lands in garbage, gets the amount of points by the line she's standing... the eraser game is similar idea, just get to shoot the eraser down the eraser tray at the bottom of the board and depending where you land, you get different amount of points

mushkamothers

Today at 12:40 pm

I've done jeopardy where the girls have to write the questions. First do a sample 100-500 so they get an idea of how hard the questions should be. Or provide question stems using blooms taxonomy.