Review Games Students LOVE | Elementary, Middle, and High School

My students play a game called Brain Bag. I tell them to write a brain dump about all of the information they remember from the unit. From the brain dump they write at least one question on an index card with the answer on the back. True or false and multiple choice work well in this game. Students need to write their name on the index card, too. We place all of the questions in a brown paper sack. This is our class “brain bag” with a bunch of facts we know. I put the students into teams and pull one card. The person who wrote the question asks it to the whole class. Each team records their answer on a small whiteboard, shows their whiteboard to me, and can earn a point for a correct response. The kids enjoy the game because they are generating the questions. It also helps to dispel misunderstandings if students write an incorrect answer for the question they submitted. As a class, we help to explain the correct answer.

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 for including in this title that these games work for primary AND secondary! I think every teacher could learn something from all of your videos! I know you’ve been a blessing to this secondary teacher! ❤️❤️

Michelle, have you tried playing Invisible Man with your students? They will love it. I see some similarities with your GrudgeBall game. Game: two or three teams; draw a stick-figure person on the whiteboard for each team (head, eyes, nose, mouth, arms, legs, feet... and to add more components to erase I write T-E-A-M 1 and T-E-A-M 2 at the top of each figure). With each question that is answered correctly, the student gets to erase any body part or letter from their own team’s stick figure. The winning team is the team who erases everything first. (Sometime I play Invisible Turkey or Invisible Christmas Tree or Invisible Snowman etc. depending on the season.) Enjoy!!

I love these! They've given me some great ideas for my first round of student teaching (my college does three levels). I've felt stuck because it's testing season and I'm with 4th grade and all of the time is taken up by test review. While the kiddos need to learn how to sit and focus on a task for an extended period of time, I feel like they need to shake it up a little.

Thank you!! Love all your game ideas. Now that is it is getting closer to the end of the term review games are great. THANK YOU AGAIN!!!

AWESOME! I bought the trash cans and the kids were so excited when we played trashketball. First time they played so well TOGETHER! You're the best!

Was not expecting trashketball to be your favorite - that’s awesome! Hahaha I bet my middle schoolers would LOVE that as a review game. They try to play it anyways. Lol Thanks so much for sharing!!

Thank you for these beautiful ideas! Maybe it would be helpful if you demonstrated them in class with your students!

I LOVED THIS VIDEO! As a preservice teacher, I'm super excited to use these games in my own classroom in the future

Awesome game review! Teachers need these types of videos bcs we forget about all the fun games that are out there. The amt of videos we tend to watch helps us to forget! Keep it up!😊

+Pocketful of Primary Michelle , Yellow is My Favorite Color so thank you for the insight there . Also wish My Teachers in elementary school did review games with me like that back when I was an autistic student in school . It would make the school day more bearable for me without so much work needed from the students to allow me to get in the mood and bring myself to positivity everyday . Keep smiling beautiful . - Dwight

I teach adults in a trade school and these games are the boooommmbbb!!! Thank u soooo much. Your tips and tricks have made ME one of the best! I owe it all to u. Thank u so so much!!

Grudge ball! Definitely put a hoop on my wishlist because that’s such a good game for my leadership students!

Thank you for sharing this wonderful / amazing video. I enjoy watching all your teacher videos.

Love all these ideas. Kahoot! Is an all time favorite for all my classes but they live trashketball as well. I have your template for that which is awesome. I will be purchasing your other two templates now. Thanks so much. 😊❤️

Thank you for the great ideas.

Taking notes here. Love your games. Thank you so much for sharing!!

I (and my students) love Kahoot! After making up 20-25 questions of content I always throw in a few questions about me. How old am I? What marathon HAVEN'T I run (yet)? Kids really like those questions. This week I discovered the beauty of Quizlet live. I tried it for the first time on Friday and oh wow that was a blast!

Love the content!! This is something I can share with my numerous teacher friends!! I love all 5 review games especially Jenga trivia and Kahoot!! Jenga trivia allows for strategy and cooperation among your students to keep the stack up as long as possible. Kahoot is a great review tool. It serves multiple purposes. You can use it as a review tool for an assessment, or you can use it as a guide to see who gets the information during a lesson, or who needs a little more support with the response data. I have used something similar to Kahoot in our medical practice and I love it.

Awesome ideas especially as we move into testing season!!!