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BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
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ANY SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS?:
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These can be decent activities to vary up how you discuss a concept because, again, you can't do a "traditional" presentation of material for very long effectively, even within a period, because: students will tune out, students will get restless and classroom management issues will become more pronounced, and material that you may have presented clearly will be forgotten because you talked passed their retention abilities.

= Here are some useful activities, games, etc. that you might find helpful: =

TITLE: ﻿ The Memory Game! IS THIS A GAME, ACTIVITY, DOCUMENT, WEBSITE, VIDEO, ETC: ﻿Game

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
 * Take a sheet of colored paper, and cut it up into 4-6 pieces and write on only one side of them (you can also use index cards if they are available, but if you want to use paper, you will want 3-5 sheets.
 * The point of the game **is to come up with things that match (e.g. a word and a definition, a part of a cell and its function, Vitamin A and foods that are good sources of Vitamin A, step 2 of the scientific method and what that step actually is, etc. - I will give a quick example below).**
 * You will need to have a bunch of cards and things matched for this to work effectively for your whole class, breaking students up into groups of 2-4.
 * Each team will go one at a time.
 * Each team will flip over one card and read what is on the other side and then will try to find the card that "matches" somewhere else - just like the standard memory game!
 * If they flip over two that match, they pick them up and hold onto them. If they flip over two cards that don't match, they flip the cards back over and have to try to remember what was written. Then the next team goes.
 * This continues until all the cards have been chosen. You will want to mediate this activity closely.

ANY SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS?:


 * Have at least two rounds, maybe the first with 16 cards face down (8 matched pairs) and the second round be only 8-12 cards (4-6 matched pairs).
 * This game is not a full period game, so it can be a warmup activity or a recap at the end of class
 * Have the students within each group alternate who flips over the cards (only one student from a team should touch the cards on a given turn). If the student who flips the cards over is not sure if the two cards match, allow the student to confer with his/her team before giving their final answer. You might even want to have a "timer" and tell the students they have no more than 20 to arrive at an answer (the cards shouldn't be face up for a long time, preferrably).

SOURCE: ** Paul Natland, but my chemistry teacher from the Breakthrough program when I was a student, Minji Kim, was the one who first showed it to me in 1996! ** **If there is a relevant document, please upload it here (meaning, please "paste" it here):** None.


 * TITLE: ﻿ ** Hot Potato, Cold Hard Facts!


 * IS THIS A GAME, ACTIVITY, DOCUMENT, WEBSITE, VIDEO, ETC: ﻿ ** Game


 * BRIEF DESCRIPTION: **
 * If have done some kind of more "traditional" instruction for ~15 minutes and you want to break things up, getting the students out of their seats for a moment before you move on with something else, you can do this activity.
 * Tell them to review the notes they just took for 30-60 seconds and then to get in a circle in one spot of the classroom (I recommend even timing them and letting them know when they have 5 seconds left before they need to be in the circle).
 * Then, you get something small that you can easily toss around, and you ask all the students a question from what you just went over - tell them to just raise their hands, and not to yell out the answer, make grunting noises, or make the "oo,ooo,ooo" pick me noise.
 * Toss a student the object, and if s/he answer it right, you can have everyone do a props "clap" or just have the person toss the object back to you. If the student gets the answer wrong, just ask if someone wants to help the student out, and have the student who got the answer wrong toss you the object and then toss the object to the other student - the object being tossed should probably always go through you, but you can be the judge of the situation.
 * Duration of the activity: Can vary significantly based on how much you want to review....the more questions you ask, certainly, the longer it will be. Ideally it would probably be between 5-15 minutes.


 * ANY SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS?: **
 * There are certainly many ways to alter this activity. Have fun with it!


 * SOURCE: ** The idea came from Jorge L. Rodriguez (Ransom 2010) and Paul Natland (mentor teacher 2010, graduate 1998)

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Title: Matching Mania!


 * Is This a Game, Activity, Website, Document, etc.?:  GAME **


 * Brief Description: **
 * This is a great game that reinforces terms
 * This can be done directly after a direct discussion or it can be done the next day as a hook or review. It might be longer so a shorter version would be ideal if it were to be used as a hook.
 * You should write the words and definitions scrambled on the board. While you do this, the students can review their terms, definitions, etc.
 * Separate the class into teams of 3-4.
 * The teams then have about 10 minutes to match each term with its definition.
 * After every minute, you will erase a match from the board. If the students ask what the erased match was,do not tell them. This reinforces the fact that they must pay attention to detail as well as their surroundings.
 * After the ten minutes are up, you will check the answer of all of the teams. The team that completes the matching correctly the fasterst wins (or, the team that has the most correct matches).


 * Any Specific Recommendations?: **


 * The rules of this game can be altered to fit your teaching style. Go with what you want!


 * Source: This idea came from the one and only Veronica Cruz (Ransom 2010, graduate). **


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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Title: <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Guess who?


 * Is This a Game, Activity, Website, Document, etc.? <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: Game **

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For example, a student (Student A) will have a post-it that says lungs. Student A might ask "Am I an organ?" The rest of the students will say yes. Student A will keep asking questions until they are able to guess what the post-it says.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brief Description: **
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This game helps with reviewing materials
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write specific terms on a post-it. (You can do this earlier or you can do this on the spot)
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have the students sit in a circle and put a post-it with a term on their forehead so that they can't see it.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The student will go one by one asking questions about who or what they are and will try to guess what they are.
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The rest of the students can answer the questions with a yes or no answer.


 * Any Specific Recommendations?:**
 * This game is great to have before a test. As long as you can think of terms, it can take the whole period if you want.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Source <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: This idea came from Yumi Suh (Ransom 2010) **


 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If there is a relevant document, please upload it here (meaning, please "paste" it here): None.﻿ **

Title: “Twisted” Mafia


 * Is This a Game, Activity, Website, Document, etc.?: Review Game **


 * Brief Description: **
 * This game is a modified form of the game Mafia.
 * You will need at least 8 players sitting on their desks in a circle.
 * There are three types of people in this game: the moderator or “God” (in this case, the teacher), mafia members, and townspeople (doctor, sheriff, and regular citizens).

Any Specific Recommendations?:
 * There are several ways to play this. Here’s one way: **
 * Get small pieces of papers. You will write one of the following letters on each one of them: “T” (for regular citizen), “S” (for sheriff), “D” (for doctor), “M” (for mafia). Make sure that there is only one doctor and one sheriff. There could be two to three mafia members and the rest should be regular citizens.
 * Deposit the pieces of papers into a small bucket/container. Go around each one of the students and have them randomly pick their role. Students MAY NOT reveal their identity to other students - the neat thing is that throughout the game, no one can tell the difference between friend and foe.
 * The moderator asks everyone to go to sleep (put their heads down). Then, the moderator asks the mafia to wake up (only those who got “M” on their pieces of paper would put their heads up). The moderator asks them who they want to eliminate (kill) and they must silently agree on getting rid of someone by pointing at them. After, the moderator asks them to go to sleep.
 * The moderator then asks the doctor (letter “D”) who he would like to save (he may also choose to save himself). Then, the moderator asks him to go to sleep.
 * Next, the moderator asks the sheriff to wake up and asks him/her who he/she thinks is in the mafia. Then, the sheriff is asked to go to sleep.
 * Finally, the moderator asks everyone to wake up. This is the exciting part since the moderator will have to improvise on stories to capture the students’ attention. The moderator could say something like: “Last night, Bob decided to go to the store to buy some lollipops, but he got killed by the mafia around the corner. Fortunately/Unfortunately, the doctor was/wasn’t able to help him.”
 * Then, the moderator mentions who is the suspect for being in the mafia. Everyone votes if they believe that that individual is in the mafia. If the person gets the majority of the votes, he/she is out UNLESS they can answer a review question correctly in order to “redeem” themselves for their actions.
 * The game continues as those who are out may keep their heads up as they watch who killed them, who accused them, or who did not save them. The people that are out must remain silent as the game goes on. The game continues until the sheriff is killed or there are no more mafia members.


 * Come up with the review questions before hand.
 * Also, if the doctor is killed, you can improvise by continuing to pretend there is still a doctor.
 * Lastly, make sure you have enough time to play several rounds.

Source:
 * Modification done by Jorge L. Rodriguez (Ransom 2010) **


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Title: Class Food Web Game

Is This a Game, Activity, Website, Document, etc.?: Review Game

Brief Description: Any Specific Recommendations?:
 * ** Students sit in a circle, they should have already gone over basic food web vocab **
 * The teacher gives each student a card with an animal and information on what they eat (i.e. Hi, my name is Alex the Owl and I love to eat rabbit with fresh morning grass...)
 * The teacher picks any student, asks him what he eats and then the student throws yarn to the person/animal/plant he eats.
 * Students will understand the complexity of energy flow in an ecosystem.
 * When everyone has been included students go back to their desks and the teacher calls on students one by one to recreate the web on the board so that they could write it on their notes. As they go up the teacher should ask them questions about their animal: is the animal a herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, producer, scavenger, predator, prey, competitor...?
 * Do not have the kids standing when throwing the yarn! Even the quietest most well-behaved student will start to move around and get rowdy.
 * Try to do the yarn throwing part as quickly as possible.
 * They like the stories on the back of the animals.Have actual yarn that won't get knotted easily.


 * Source: ** *Modification done by Ana Vargas (Ransom 2010)

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Title: Who Wants To Be a Millionaire!

Is This a Game, Activity, Website, Document, etc.?: Game

Brief Description:

Any Specific Recommendations?:

Source: Morton (Carrollton, 2010)

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