Hello Patricia,
I love the idea of having the students create their own game. I also like the post-it notes to label body parts! What do you use to keep the post-it notes from falling off the student/maniken?
And, thank you for sharing!
In the past I've created a semi-jeopardy game. Which students seem to like but I get bored playing it. So, now I have other games that I will implement ASAP! I like the Whole Brain Organizer! I'll try this game this week! Thank you!!
Susan, thank you for sharing the script writing idea. This is wonderful!
Michele Deck
Some activities I have used in the past are, Script team writing and acting. Having students come up with a scenario using as many med terms we discussed that week and then have the team act it out.
I have done speed spelling with a ball, spelling the word while tossing the ball back and forth in their hands. They pass the ball off to another student after spelling the word right.
Med Term Bingo and most recently a type of round robin with med terms.
Jeanne, it is a great thing that your are personalizing which activities you use with each class. Keep up the good work!
Michele Deck
I have used crossword puzzles, practice quizzes as exercises from the text book people, puzzles using construction paper body parts and various enzymes they need to place on the organs for digestion of certain macronutrients. I have used plastic play food to be organized for the various nutrients they contain. I have used the students as certain elements in a short performance to show the movement of nutrients and water from the capillary to the cell for metabolism and then the return of the waste products and water from the cell to the capillary again as venous circulation.
Each new class is unique and they each have their own dynamics and preferences. I try to find activities that will suit each group the best. It is a challenge but part of the fun of teaching and seeing them make connections as they learn.
Ellis, an activity can be very short and still very effective.
Michele Deck
Various Jeopardy!-based games. Also, many mini-games of less than a minute that challenges individual students to creatively reassemble course content.
Linda, I'm so glad you have chosen to use a number and variety of activities. Enjoy!
Michele Deck
I have created many activities for my students to enjoy during our activities time (only 30 minutes of class time). I created Baseball, wheel of fortune, name that term, and monopoly.
An activity I have created in the past is making a rhyme out of term words. It's fun and the class gets to laugh.
Damien, I like the idea of having the students create posters. This assesses their knowledge and allows them to be visual with their poster and others.
Michele Deck
I've had students design a poster listing and showing pictures of all the parts of a given body system
We have done many different games in my classes. Many times I will ask my students to make up a game and teach it to the class. They seem to like to do this one because it gives them a little power. On the first day of class I like to have an ice breaker and so I take a small ball or balled of sheet of paper and we toss it around the room to get information about each student. Later in the moduel we will do the same game only the student are more involved and get to ask questions to each other regarding the subject we are on.
Cross word Bingo Jeaperdy, guess the word
The word match, word search, xword puzzle.
I have used jeopardy and hangman, they seem to be very useful, and the students seem to like playing them.
Joyce, hangmans is a reliable activity that can be one of the teaching tools you use.
Michele Deck
Chloe, thank you for sharing your Guessaroo game. It is good to see you are creating activities that work.
Michele Deck
I made a game called Guesseroos and its basically a group of people having vocab words and they work it out with movements and talking.
