Lesson Plan- Review Game- Pass the Monkey

TEACHER: Miss Gaskill
CLASS & GRADE LEVEL: 8th Grade American History
UNIT: The Revolutionary War
LESSON TOPICS: Review Day

TYPE OF LEARNING: Review
TIME ALLOTMENT: 1 Day

DAY: I day

STANDARD/BENCHMARKS:.
• Explain conditions, actions and motivations that contribute to conflict and cooperation within and among nations.
* Give examples and explain how governments attempt to achieve their stated ideals at home and abroad


OBJECTIVES:
Students will apply previous assignment and prior knowledge in playing.
Students will practice reading a timeline.
Students will display prior knowledge by playing a review game.
Students will discuss answers that have to have study guide.
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TEACHING MATERIALS:
Answer Key to Study Guide
Prepare 2 sets of 25 "scoring cards." On each of those cards, write a different instruction, for example:
* Earn 100 points
* Take 50 points from the other team
* Earn 70 points
* Double your total points
* Earn 500 bonus points
*Subtract 20 points from score.
Prepare 25 Questions
2 Monkeys

INSTURCTIONAL MATERIALS
16. Check the students agendas and stamp blue cards (5Minutes)
17. Have a couple students hand back work in the class tray
18. Tell the students that if their name is on the board I don’t have a score in the grade book for them. If they think that hand it and they don’t get it handed back, have them check the pile without names on it. If its not there do I don’t have it.
19. If their name is on the board and they get it back. Have hand it back in so I can record the score.
20. Have the students hand in any missing work.
21. Have the students get out their study guides. Go over the questions and discuss the answers to the work sheet.
22. When every questions has been answered split the class into two teams.
23. Have the teams sit in circles. Give each team an item to pass around.
24. Play music pass the time around when the music stomps that person has to come up and answer the question.
25. Have each contestant that is answering the question pick an index card (DO NOT SHOW THEM THE CARD UNTIL QUESTION IS ANSWERED)
26. When the question is answered show them the card if the answer is correct then do what the index card says.
27. Play the music and stop and the next person ends up with the object is the next contest.
28. The team with highest score wins at the end.


EVALUATION:
Students: How well are the applying previous assignment and prior knowledge in playing? Are the students able to practice reading a timeline?
How well are the students displaying prior knowledge by playing review game?


Teacher: Are the directions clear? How much time is this taking? Are the student just sitting there and not getting? What are they working on? What other question could be asked?