academic games. engaging students on some good days we may have 70% of our students engaged in...
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Academic Games
Engaging Students
• On some good days we may have 70% of our students engaged in learning.
• Good teachers make sure that it is a different 70% that is engaged throughout our time with the students and all students are engaged at some point in time.
So why is it necessary to change up instruction?
As your brain gets numb-er Your brain gets dumber
Changing STATES
Change up instruction 5-10 min. for pre-adolescents, and
Every 10-20 minutes for adolescents into adults.
Thinking About It
• Why would you want to change states when you finally have students quiet, sitting in their seats, and looking like they are listening to you?
• Because the brain needs a chance to refocus and start again.
• When you stand up blood flow to the brain increases.
The Importance of Processing Time
• The brain needs time to create connections and pathways to create long term memories.
• The hippocampus can only hold so much • Example of glass of water.• Too much, to fast, it won’t Last.• 10-2 or 5-1 rule
Lecture
Reading
Audio-visual
Demonstration
Discussion Groups
Practice by doing
Teach others/immediate use of learning
Average Retention Rate after 24 hours
5%
10%
20%
30%
50%
75%
90%
Adapted from David Sousa’s figure 3.9in his text, How the Brain Learns p 95
Boosting Retention
Art and Science of Teaching
• Question #5: What will I do to engage students?
• The teacher uses academic games and inconsequential competition to maintain student engagement.
Games and Inconsequential(Just for Fun) Competition
• Games should always have an academic focus.• Regroup students so that all students
experience winning and losing.• Points are tallied but not used to increase or
decrease scores or grades.
Research on The Use of Games to Improve Student Learning
Marzano Research Lab reports the results of three meta-analyses.
Student growth in classrooms that used games ranged from a 13 percentile gain to an 18 percentile gain.
This is significant.
Two General Categories
• Vocabulary games– Vocabulary Games for the Classroom,
Carleton & Marzano, 2010
• Turning questions into games– Asking questions elicits students’ attention
Vocabulary Games: Which One Doesn’t Belong?Middle School Examples
Martin looks like a fox. bear, bare
The house felt like a cave. torn, ripped
The car was a pigpen. steal, steel
The taffy was as smooth rain, reign
as butter.
TABOOThis favorite game is a
great tool for students to practice vocabulary and summarize. The object is to get someone to say the word using clues that don’t use the “taboo” words.
14
president
Obama
White House
Republican
Washington
Lincoln
TABOO
Star WarsLuke SkywalkerDarth VaderYodaMoviePrincess Leia
TABOO
Bo PeliniNebraskaCoachFootballMemorial StadiumCornhuskers
Create Your Own
• Write a taboo term or concept on a notecard
• List up to 5 taboo words
Who am I?• On note cards, teacher writes names of people
studied in class, vocabulary words, places or things from content.
• Student puts on top hat (or baseball cap) or sticky note, and chooses a card without looking at it. The other student tapes the card to the hat, or put the sticky note on his/her back.
• The student determines the name on the card by asking yes or no questions.
Who am I?
•Let’s play.
•In your group, pick one person to turn away from the screen.
•The name appears on screen.
•The “It” person asks yes or no questions until he or she answers correctly.
Who Am I?
• Tom Hanks
Who Am I?
• Bill Gates
Social Studies Examples: Who am I?Elementary
• Daniel Boone• Amelia Earhart• Abraham Lincoln
• Albert Einstein• Dwight Eisenhower• Sigmund Freud
Social Studies Examples: Who am I?Middle School
Social Studies Examples: Who am I?High School
• Joan of Arc• Ulysses S. Grant• Aristotle
Other Examples?
What Am I?
Science
• Insect• Mammal• Gravity• Force• Compound• Element – (specific)
English
• Parts of speech • Poetry• Essays• Genres• Literary Techniques• Titles
What Am I?
Math
• Order of operation• Scientific notation• Pythagorean
Theorem• Variable• Slope• Intercept
Social Studies
• The Constitution• Republic• Democracy• Free trade• States Rights• Electoral College
What is the question?Jeopardy: The answer must be in the form of a question.
Language Arts examples– The form of word after all of its prefixes and suffixes
have been removed• What are ___________________?
– The part of a word that comes before its base• What is a ____________________?
High school examples
•The person who is telling the story in a book or movie.
– What is a _________________?•Ideas or rumors spread to help or hurt a specific person or cause
– What is __________________?•A law that prevents the reproduction or use of an author’s original work without permission
– What is __________________?
DonDon’’t forget to use physical movement.t forget to use physical movement.
• Stand up and stretch (the oxygen effect)(the oxygen effect)
• Body representations (acting out (acting out important content) e.g. have four students important content) e.g. have four students do a visual representation of a celldo a visual representation of a cell
• Give one, get one (standing, students (standing, students compare notes and identify additions)compare notes and identify additions)
• Vote with your feet (Correct? Partially (Correct? Partially correct? Incorrect?)correct? Incorrect?)
Talk a Mile a Minute
Things Associated with the American
Civil WarRobert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Gettysburg
Slavery
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
Things Associated with
Outer SpaceSun
Orbits
Mars
Venus
Saturn
Galaxy
Meteors
Shapes
Square
Circle
Rectangle
Triangle
Right Triangle
Oval
Diamond
Artists
Vincent Van Gogh
Michelangelo
Picasso
Leonardo da Vinci
Monet
Rembrandt
Andy Warhol
Units of Measure
Inches
Meters
Gallons
Hours
Quarts
Square Yards
Liters
Parts of Speech
Noun
Verb
Adjective
Preposition
Conjunction
Adverb
Pronoun
Name that Category
Things that happened in the 1970’s
Types of government
Things Albert Einstein would
say
Liquids Titles of plays
Battles
200 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
Things you find on the moon
Types of music
Things a shark would say
Nursery Rhymes
Planets Presidents
200 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
Things you find in China
Kinds of fish
Things a tree would say
Soda Pop
Flavors
Cities Vegetables
200 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
Summary
• How can academic games help students learn?
• What games do you want to try?
• Talk a Mile a Minute, Name that Category and a Jeopardy power point are posted on the ESU 6 Craft Knowledge wiki at http://esu6craftknowledge.wikispaces.com/