Using Games to Increase Student Performance

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Using Games to Increase Student Performance

• Presenting Tatia Morrison
• Chris Bogdanow
• Consulting Ed Morrison

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Why Use Games?

• Foster the Love of Learning
• Learning Should be Fun
• Use Instructional Practices That Work
• Student Engagement
• Differentiation
• Quick Dirty Assessment
• Monitor Adjust Instruction

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Research-Based Strategies

• Classroom Instruction that Works Research-Based
  Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement
• by Robert Marzano, Debra J. Pickering,
• and Jane E. Pollock
• ASCD Publication, 2001

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Setting the Stage

• Warm-up Activities
• Critical Thinking Outside the Box
• Curiosity
• Routine Immediate Engagement
• Anticipation

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Types of Games

• Game Shows
• (i.e. Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire,
• Hollywood Squares, etc.)
• Interactive Games
• (i.e. Password, Bingo, Card Board Games,
  online games, etc.)
• Kinesthetic Activities, Tricks, Gadgets
• (i.e. Relays, mini white boards, whisper
  phones, body movement, etc.)

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Game ShowsJeopardy, Hollywood Squares, etc.

• Low Tech
• Overhead Projector
• Poster Board
• High Tech
• Computer (PowerPoint)
• Data Projector
• Smart Board (for interactive touch response)

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Practice Play

• Jeopardy
• Questions Answers (25, 16, or 9 boxes that
  become progressively more difficult)
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire
• 15 Multiple Choice Questions (progressively more
  difficult)
• Hollywood Squares
• 9 Questions Answers

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Producing A Game Show

• Audience (grade level ability)
• Content
• Length of Game
• Match the Game to the Content Students

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Game Design

• Approach
• Focus of Game
• Introduction of New Material
• Review of Facts and/or Details
• Develop Fluency
• Culminating Activity
• Use an Organizational Template

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Organizational Templates

• Paper and Pencil Style Matrix
• Excel Spreadsheet Matrix
• Word Table Matrix

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Approach to Questions Answers

• The pure Jeopardy approach provides an answer
  and the contestant phrases a response in the form
  of a question.
• Consider an age appropriate modification of the
  game.
• Question (teacher writes question)
• Answer (student responds to question)

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Sample Jeopardy (25) Matrix
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Build a New Jeopardy Game

• Chunk the big ideas for the topic
• Open the template
• Save the new game
• Title of game
• Grade level
• Date
• Type the Category titles in the template (slide
  4)
• Type in questions and answers (slides 5-54)
• Type in Final Jeopardy questions and answers
  (slides 56 57)
• SAVE the new game

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Build a New Who Wants to be a Millionaire

• Open template and save with a new name
• Develop 15 multiple choice questions that become
  increasingly more difficult
• Type the questions into the appropriate slides
• Type the multiple choice answers into the
  appropriate slides
• Type in the correct answer for each of the 15
  questions

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Sample Millionaire Matrix
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Build a New Hollywood Squares

• Open template and save with a new name
• Develop 9 questions
• Type the questions into the appropriate slides
• Type the answers into the appropriate slides

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Hollywood Squares Template
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Preview the New Game

• Proof and edit for errors
• Basic Questions
• Does this game address the desired content or
  concepts?
• Does the level of difficulty appropriately match
  the target audience?
• Do students have the background knowledge to be
  successful (and have fun)?
• Will this game produce teachable moments?

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ChallengesUsing Games in the Classroom

• Challenges
• Super Competitive Groups
• Random bonus points
• Carefully select groups
• Sequence student participation
• Blurting Answers
• Penalty points
• Missed turns

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Challenges Continued

• Reluctant Participants
• Pre-Teach or Review the Basic Concepts
• Content Becomes Progressively More Difficult
• (Easier questions build confidence)
• Clues
• Slates or Mini White Boards
• Student Coaches
• Encouragement Enthusiasm
• (Learning is fun!)

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Advanced Applications

• Students Develop Game Questions Answers
• Jeopardy
• Requires ability to group and categorize
  information
• Determine the content or concepts that are
  important
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire
• Understand construction of multiple choice
  questions
• Think about likely wrong answers
• Develop strategies for eliminating answers
• Hollywood Squares
• Select most important content or concepts

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Vocabulary, Sorting, Sequencing, and Comparison
Games

• Password
• Builds Vocabulary
• Promotes Communication of Concepts
• Samples
• Sequencing, Sorting, and Comparing
• Sort -- Dimensions
• Distance, Weight, Time
• Sequence -- Measurement
• Ounce, pound, ton, inch, foot, yard, mile (sort
  by size)
• Compare English measurement to Metric
• Yard, meter, inch, centimeter, mile, kilometer

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Interactive Games

• Password
• 24 (various versions)
• Blink
• Set
• Bingo
• Many Others

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Kinesthetic

• Why Kinesthetic?
• Develop alternative learning modes
• Increase activity levels
• Change of pace
• Relays
• Develop speed and fluency
• Body Movement, such as Math Chi
• Movement connected to concepts and terminology

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Gadgets

• Phonic Whisper Phones
• Candl Foundation, 800-633-7212
• Case of 24 phones _at_ 2.50 each
• Mini White Boards (less than 3.00 each)
• Gel Boards, by Imaginetics
• Phone [phone]
• www.gelboard.com

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Contact Information

• Tatia Morrison, Principal
• Chapman Elementary School
• 503-916-6295
• tmorriso_at_pps.k12.or.us
• Chris Bogdanow, Principal
• Lee Elementary School
• 503-916-2650
• bogdanow_at_pps.k12.or.us

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Technical Support

• Ed Morrison
• Chapman Math Lab Volunteer
• 503-916-6295
• Email chapmanmathlab_at_pps.k12.or.us
• Click on Math Lab at www.chapman.pps.k12.or.us