(Not) Just Playing Around

Meeting 1:  2/17
Students will demonstrate knowledge in a variety of subjects by playing a quiz game.  There are 5 categories; grammar, famous people, authors, mathematical prefixes, and fill-in-the-blanks featuring questions pertaining to pronouns, science, art, and history.  Each category has 11 questions.  Then the players advance to a times table portion where they have to answer multiplication problems (32 problems).  For each question or problem the player earns 10 points for correctly answering without help or choices, or they earn 5 points for correct answers with help or choices.  The teacher will keep track of scores.
Meeting 2:  2/24
Students will review concepts from grades 4-6 in a quiz-game format.  There are 5 categories.  The first category is "Machines and Planets".  There are 11 questions about simple machines and planets in our solar system.  The second category is "Conflicted".  This category has 11 questions about the American Revolution, WWI, and WWII.  The third category is "Health".  There are eleven questions regarding concepts like protein, carbohydrates, amino acid and the like. The next category is "Math" in which 11 questions are asked regarding perimeter, area, factors, diameter, and radius.  The final category is "Homonyms".  Eleven questions require the students to fill in the sentences with the correct homonym. After the questions there is a final game of states and capitals.  32 states are revealed and the students must name the capital for each state.  Students earn 10 points by answering with no help or 5 points by choosing an answer from among 3 choices.  The teacher will keep track of the points.  
Meeting 3:  3/3
This is a review of content in grades 4-6 via a quiz game format.  There are 5 categories; definitions, famous people, country capitals, inventions, and geometry with 11 questions in each category followed by a spelling round with 32 words to be spelled.  Players can choose to earn ten points by answering the question with no help or five points by choosing an answer from three choices.
Meeting 4:  3/10
Students will review concepts from grades 4-6 by playing a quiz game.  The first category for this game is "Lefties".  Students are asked to identify 11 well-known people who are left handed.  The second category is "Haiku am I" .  Students are given a haiku poem describing a famous person and the student must guess who that poem describes.  There are 11 haiku poems.  The third category is  "Literary Devices" where each question refers to literary devices such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and personification.  There are 11 questions.  The fourth category is "Probably".  This features 11 questions dealing with the most basic concepts of probability.  These involve one flipped coin or rolling one die.  There are also a couple questions concerning basic factorials.   The final category is "Calendar".  This features 11 questions about astrology and moon phases.  After the questions are completed there is a final game featuring sentences and fragments.   32 lines are given and students must decide whether each one is a sentence or a fragment. Students can earn 10 points by answering with no help or 5 points by choosing the best of three options for each question.  The teacher will keep track of points.  
Meeting 5:  3/17
Students have a choice of five categories just using content covered in grade 6.  The first is Reading which contains eleven questions about book plots, point of view, mood, tone, and similar topics.  The next category is Social Studies which has eleven questions dealing with early governments up to and including The Renaissance.  The next category is English.  These eleven questions include punctuation, verb tenses, affixes, and connotation versus denotation.The next category is Math.  These eleven questions deal with inequalities, graphing, integers, range, mean, median, and mode.  The final category is Science with eleven questions featuring cells, atoms, energy, and waves.  After these categories there is a rapid-fire game of vocabulary words from each category.  The definition is given and the word must be names.  Students can earn points for each correct answer in his game.  The teacher will keep track of points.