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Using Games for Review and Increasing Interaction
Games can be a great way to review materials as well as to encourage interaction between students in the classroom. These games can be built in PowerPoint by just adding your own questions. Since you have access to each individual slide, you can also customize the graphics and look of each game.
PowerPoint Games
The following templates are in zip files along with accompanying music and graphic files. The games were created by different people who offered them for free download from the web for classroom use. Once you download the zip file, you must unzip it using a software program like WinZip. Make sure all the files stay in the same folder so that the links will work.
- $10,000 Pyramid
- 20 Questions
- Challenge Game (like Jeopardy)
- Famous Squares
- Millionaire
- Weaker Link
- Additional collection of sample games with downloadable templates
Hot Potatoes (free software to create games)
- Download Hot Potatoes
- Creating Crossword Puzzles
- Creating Drag-and-Drop exercises
- Creating Flashcards with Hot Potatoes
- Nursing Puzzles and Word Games (all ready to print out!)
Excel
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a demo on creating flash cards with ExcelWord
Create an instant word search puzzle - choose the Text option to copy
and paste the puzzle into Word. Also explore other puzzles at this free
website.
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