Small Group Games
This game is best for learning vocabulary, and is best utilized by 2-5 people.
What is a crossword puzzle?
This game encourages good study strategies by making students look up concepts in their textbook/notes, encourages group learning, and knowledge acquisition.
What is Divide and Conquer to The Max!?
What is Guess Your Vocabulary Term?
This study skill helps the brain connect what it is hearing to understanding material and committing it to memory.
What is handwriting notes instead of typing notes?
This type of question asks students to comprehend, apply, and evaluate material.
What is an open ended question?
This game involves the instructor making mistakes on purpose and playing devil's advocate, challenging the students to think critically about the material.
What is the "dumb" tutor?
This activity shows students common errors and gives them experience identifying potential mistakes as well as how to correct them.
What is Gallery Walk?
Students record the lecture using concise sentences and keywords, recite concepts from memory, reflect on concepts, and review concepts.
What is the Cornell Method?
This is a strategy that gives students a chance to process what the instructor just said.
What is asking a question and WAITING?
This game involves students having to do one step of a problem and handing it off to the next person, which cultivates problem solving skills.
What is relay Olympics?
What game is best used for concepts that can be drawn? Subjects such as organic chemistry, biology, etc.
What is Pictionary?
This game allows students to create a note card where they have compiled information of equations, vocab/definitions, examples, or anything they think would help them succeed on quizzes/exams.
What is Team Experts!?
Striving for understanding and application; not simply remembering or memorizing.
What is the best outcome of studying for students?
Verbalizing your thoughts while reading orally or working out a problem. Students will see how the instructor's mind responds to thinking through trouble problem and constructs meaning from text materials.
What is modeling for students the thought processes that take place when difficult material is encountered?
This game is best for problem based classes and is best utilized to increase student to student interaction. It challenges students to think through a problem step by step.
What is Think Aloud!?
Cover all answer choices, Read the question, Answer in your head, Match answer in your head to answer choices
What is the CRAM testing strategy?
This strategy allows 3 students to comment before you comment or fill in understanding gaps after a student asks a question.
What is 3 Before Me?
This game is best for checking for learning and/or understanding of students. The instructor should focus on current material but include two or more concepts they want the students to understand.
What is informal survey?
Organize and review notes in order of importance, review and recall concepts, rewrite all important information and recall own explanations of material, create a list of questions that might be on the exam and answer them, prepare by reviewing notes and relax
5 Day Test Prep Method
This is when activities require students to use more than one sense to increase the capacity to learn.
What is active learning?