Sunshine State Standard

SC.E.1.2.4

Materials

large pocket chart, strips of construction paper or cut up sentence strips, markers, (computer optional), musical instruments (teacher made or store bought)

What to do

I use this reinforcement activity while studying any major concept and to reinforce vocabulary. Right now, we are doing "Planet Jeopardy". For Social Studies, we played "President Jeopardy".

After introducing a concept and/or vocabulary, make up game cards. (Depending on chart size and amount of information, you will need about 15 strips of paper.)

Write the answers (or prepare them on a computer) and place them on strips of paper. You can sort your facts into categories or simply have columns labeled A,B,C. Give number values for each answer (counting by 10's, 100's, etc) and place the value card in front of your answer card. When the students play the game, they will call out the column and value (example: B 300). For this example, you will remove the 300 value card in column B and read aloud the "answer". The first student to "ring in" first will try to give the correct answer in the form of a question. For example, an answer could be "the largest planet". The correct response would be "What is Jupiter?." If correct, the team gets 300 points. If incorrect, the team loses 300 points (just like the TV show). The team with the most points "wins".

Additional Information

Explain the game Jeopardy to the class before you play the game. Ask students to go home and watch the game on television so that they can understand how to play the game.
For those kids who haven't seen the game, they catch onto the rules very quickly after a few questions.

Submitted by

Candy Richardson

Lee County
Bonita Springs, FL
candyr3@lee.k12.fl.us