Box BINGO
Overview: A great way to keep students focused during the lesson.
Number of people: Groups of two to four.
Materials: One empty cardboard box per group, paper, tape and pens.
Time: Around 5 minutes to start – carrying on through the lesson.
Directions:
1. Teacher writes the lesson title on the board and presents students with a list of twenty to thirty simple questions about the topic which are likely to be answered during the lesson. The questions are pre-written – either on a slide or sheet of paper, and given to each group to look at.
2. Each student in each group must pick ONE question (to which they don’t know the answer) from the list and write it on his/her sheet of paper. They then stick their question to one of the box sides. As there are six sides to a box, some students get to write more than one question.
3. The teacher should try to keep the question sheet in front of them during the lesson to monitor which questions are asked as the lesson progresses, but the idea is that as soon as a question is answered, any student who has written this down on their team’s box should write the answer on the box, under their question.
When a team’s questions have all been answered they can stand and shout “Box!” (or any other suitably-entertaining word).
4. A joke trophy could be awarded to the winning team (eg, a gold, spray-painted box mounted on a plinth) to create a ceremony and this could be used as a regular way of keeping students focused on the lesson topic.
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