Games worked well

For the first 15 minutes of every science class this week, I had one of the groups present their games to the class.  With some help from me in getting the class organized, the games they came up with have been quite creative.  We are just getting a sneak peak of them within 15 minutes, but I will definitely use some of their games again in the future.  We will bring them out again at the end of the unit as a review.  We are playing the games as one big class, but in the future they will play them in smaller groups and I think they will learn a lot by playing the games.  So overall, I would say it was a success.

First Try!

I am trying something with the vocabulary list for Ch.2 & 3 in Science.  First I had the class work in pairs to create cue cards for the words.  I then had them get in groups of 4 to create a game to help them and the class learn the vocab words.  They had a class and a half to create the game and then next week they will all present the game to the class.  We will start every science class next week with one of the groups presenting their game and getting the class to play it.  Today it seemed like they had some good ideas.  We'll see how it goes next week.