Branium
Required: Dice, Pin or Bottle to spin, Paper, Pens, Answer sheet, Square Grid taped on the floor
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Make Words with letters: Game
Scategories: Game
Switch Steal Bust: Game
Mine Field: Game
Children spin a bottle on the floor which will then point to a corner of the room. The four corners of the room correlate with the four games on the board game. Once a game has been chosen, play the game.
Make Words with Letters: Give each team a piece of paper and a pen. The teacher will write 9-12 letters on the board at random. Students are then given a few minutes to write as many words as possible using the letters from the board. The team that has the most words at the end is the winner and is rewarded 10 points.
Example Letters: MABEHIGOFURY
Example words from letters: Be, Go, Fire, Maybe, Hi, Game…
Switch Steal Bust: The student rolls the dice to see which he/she has won. 1,2 = Switch a player from each team, or switch points. 3,4 = Steal points from the other team. 5,6 = Bust, Their team loses all points.
Icons:
Make Words with letters: Game
Scategories: Game
Switch Steal Bust: Game
Mine Field: Game
Children spin a bottle on the floor which will then point to a corner of the room. The four corners of the room correlate with the four games on the board game. Once a game has been chosen, play the game.
Make Words with Letters: Give each team a piece of paper and a pen. The teacher will write 9-12 letters on the board at random. Students are then given a few minutes to write as many words as possible using the letters from the board. The team that has the most words at the end is the winner and is rewarded 10 points.
Example Letters: MABEHIGOFURY
Example words from letters: Be, Go, Fire, Maybe, Hi, Game…
Switch Steal Bust: The student rolls the dice to see which he/she has won. 1,2 = Switch a player from each team, or switch points. 3,4 = Steal points from the other team. 5,6 = Bust, Their team loses all points.
Scategories: A student rolls the dice two or three times. Add the numbers to get the letter that will be used. Example from the chart in the picture. Roll 2,5 = 7 7= F I had students roll the dice to get 2 letters, But depending on the age and level you can use more letters or less. The teacher then chooses a category: Example from picture “Cost less than 200 RMB” Things that cost less than 200 RMB. Once students have their letters, and their category, each team then has a few minutes to come up with as many things in that category that start with the letters that were given. (F) (Fish, Food, Frog, Flower, Flag, Flour…) The Team that has the most correct answers is the winner and is awarded 10 points. |
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Mine Field: All Students must walk/jump across the 6X6 grid on the floor one at a time. If they step on a bomb from the teacher’s answer sheet they are dead. If they get across the “Mine Field” safely they are awarded 5 points.
*I made sure students tip toed across the field, where if I saw them slightly step into a square that had a mine they were dead. (this made it more difficult and fun) *I had one answer sheet that I used for a week, where I just turned it every time a student went across so that it was always changing and new. **For Older classes I had all students sitting facing away from the grid so that they could not see the players walking through the grid and get any hints of where bombs might be. |
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