Friday Matinee: Holiday Fun With Goose Chase

The holidays are here and families and friends are getting together, although this year these gatherings may be virtual rather than in-person.  No matter which type you're joining, GooseChase allows you to set up a scavenger hunt where teams can compete against other teams.  Ready to give it a try?  Read on!

If you might use GooseChase with your class, I would create a GooseChase EDU account.  You set up the game on a desktop or laptop and play on a phone or tablet using their app.  There are games online that you can copy and use for your own scavenger hunt.  

Here's another video on creating a GooseChase EDU game:

Let us know if you try this over the holidays and how the game went!  Enjoy!

Here are a few other things you can try to make the holidays fun for your kids or grandkids:

Christmas Scavenger Hunt

Decorate a Gingerbread House

Build a Snowman

Each file will ask you to make a copy.

Friday Matinee: Kahoot for Student Engagement & Review

Kahoot! is a fun game based way to engage your students and also check for understanding.  You can create a variety of questions and either play it live (even via Zoom) or you can assignment it as a challenge game where students play at their own pace when they have time.  Instead of you creating the questions for the game, ask students to submit questions to let them take over the review process.  

The Basic version is free and allows you to play live class-sized games or student-paced challenges so that students can play at their own pace.  Games will use multiple choice quiz questions.  There are 3 levels of premium accounts with various features including questions that drive deeper learning like puzzles, student typed answers, and more. 

All games can be played via Zoom!

Resources to get you started:

How to create a Kahoot

Host Kahoot! games - a step by step guide

Kahoot! challenges: how to assign Kahoots as Homework

Playlist of Kahoot! Tutorials

EDU Webinar on Kahoot for Distance Learning (the free upgrade to the pro version is no longer available)

Want to try a self-paced challenge?  Click here.

Need help?  Just ask.  We're here to help.  Also check out our Remote Learning Resources website.  We keep adding new ideas!

Friday Matinee: Review Jeopardy Game Using Google Slides

It's getting close to the end of the semester and using this Jeopardy template will allow you to either create the game for your class to play as a review or you can let groups of students use it to create the questions and answer then share their game with the rest of the class.  

Jeopardy 5 Topic Template

In order to use this template, go to FILE and choose MAKE A COPY.  Don't forget to "file" it in Google Drive in a folder so that you keep your Drive organized.  You can do this by clicking on the folder icon to the right of the file name at the top right of the screen.  

If you would like to use this template again, I would suggest that you make not 1, but 2 copies of this file.  One I would add the word MASTER to one of them so that you will know that it is your blank template