Here are my top 5 games!
- Bop or Flop
- This is more of an activity than a game, there are no real "winners" unless you count the points for songs. In this activity, students will hear a selection of a song, after they have heard a good amount they vote "bop" if they liked the song and "flop" if they didn't. This is a great way to authentically start conversations about music in my class! I just use a google slides page with a Pear Deck add on voting tool.
- Kahoot (www.kahoot.com)
- I feel like this goes without saying, but Kahoot is ol'reliable. Kahoot is a quiz-game style virtual game that create the perfect amount of competition in my class. Teachers can design questions or use pre-made Kahoots and students have to guess the correct answers. Students are given points based on quickness and correctness.
- Blooket (www.blooket.com)
- Blooket was the game I couldn't get my students to stop playing. There are over 8 different game modes you can play, which basically means it'll never get boring. Just like Kahoot, you design or pick the questions and students get "tokens" to use in the games. Students must answer the questions right to earn tokens for their games.
- Jeopardy Labs (www.jeopardylabs.com)
- Not gonna lie, it's a personal dream of mine to play Jeopardy (Rest in Peace, Alex Trebek). So I love playing this with my students. I create categories and clues based on the information we learn in class. I love to use this for review!
- Would You Rather
- Would You Rather is a campfire style game, you are asked a question that starts with "Would you rather" for example "Would you rather only eat chicken for the rest of your life, or only be allowed to drink pickle juice". I put a few slides on the board and students select their response, I usually assign a rhythm to it- so students clap the response they would rather do! It's great because students start to really learn to listen for the choices of others around them!
Here's a jeopardy labs I made this year! 
HI erin!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for creating this great list of resources! Jeopardy labs is one of my favorites! I have not giving Blooket, Would you Rather or Bop or FloP! Bop or Flop I can definitely use as a coversation starter in French. My students also really liked GimKit last year! It isn't free, but there is a free trial. They have an "Among Us" like game, that my students really appreciated.
Thank you again!
Kelley
Hi Erica!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this list of fun activity resources! I really appreciate the descriptions and how you used it in your class. Kids of all ages love playing games. Most Friday's in my small pullout math we play games. We actually played mostly Kahoot. A LOT! Although the kids enjoyed it everytime, I feel the need to switch it up. So, I am very happy that you wrote about different games. I would like to try Blooket. I have never heard of this one. I have played Jeopardy a few times, but I bought a templet off of Teachers Pay Teachers. I will also like to try Jeopardylabs. Thanks again for the resources. I really enjoyed reading! ~ Andrea
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ReplyDeleteHi Erica,
ReplyDeleteI love the list of different online games that you use with your students. One of the resources you shared that I would like to start incorporating in my virtual classroom is Jeopardy Labs. I think my students would love to use this in class as a review for any upcoming math or reading assessments. Another one I would like to use is Kahoot. Although I have used this game in professional development, I haven't used it with my kids. I'll have to keep this list in mind when the year starts up. Thanks so much for sharing these resources with us!