Gaming as formative assessment:

I am able to track the progress of my students by viewing their performances in class quizzes. Online quizzes are set as homework and students copy screen prints of their scores on a sheet of paper that they submit to me.

1. Quizzes/games.The following links are examples of some of the online quizzes that the students have benefitted from. I utilise these with boys either individually or in a group coming up to the Smartboard to attempt these interactives and then later for the boys to revise on their class wiki.Gaming also provides an opportunity for boys to play online games against each other in a competitive sense. The following links are examples that boys have played on the Smartboard in class. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/int/geog/rivers/flash/home.swf

and http://tiny.cc/G9LwG Multiple choice questions and answers

2. Non computer games: such as

Choose 9 directive terms from the following 15 below.

Account Analyse Critically Define Demonstrate

Describe Discuss Distinguish Evaluate Explain

Identify Justify Outline Assess Recommend.

Draw up a table with three columns and rows and put a directive term in each of the 9 boxes on your bingo card

     

     

Make sure you know what that word means because you need to know to win!!

Shout BINGO when you have a line or a FULL HOUSE!

Teacher reads out the definitions and MUST keep a record of the words used

3. Giving powerpoint templates to students and getting them to create their own games such as Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.

The game on the next page is called Roaming Bingo which I used as a pretest to reveal students’ prior subject knowledge.

1. Draw the map symbol for ‘Tourist Information’

2. Name the highest mountain in Europe

3. What is the world’s largest ocean?

4. Which country has the world’s largest population?

5. Name three cities in Brazil

6. Why are deserts cold at night?

7. Name one natural disaster from the last five years

8. Why do some parts of the world suffer from earthquakes?

9. What is the largest city in the world (population)?

10. Name one major Tropical Rainforest

11. What is the world’s longest river?

12. What is a refugee? 13. Name one conflict between two or more countries in recent times

14. What is a glacier? 15. What is a favela?

16. What is the UN? 17. What is the ‘La Nina’?

18. Why does North Sydney get more rainfall than Warragamba Dam?

19.In which city was the film Slumdog Millionaire shot?

20. Name one area of the world where people are affected by ‘Cyclones’

21. What is the largest river in Australia?

22. Name at least 3 things that a good map should have

23. Name one country which borders Switzerland?

24. What is the EU? 25. Which ‘Tropic’ is found South of the Equator?

Introduction to GeographyTo help you meet the people who will be in your class, find someone different to answer each question on your grid (even if you know it!)

1. Where there any questions which you thought had nothing or little to do with Geography? List these by number and discuss (later) with the teacher

2. Try to group some of the questions together under common themes (the teacher will discuss this with you). List these by numbers under a theme heading. Try to have between 3 and 6 groups.

3. The teacher will now talk to you about some possible groups which will simplify what Geography is about. Please list these below and now try to write numbers from the grid which might fit in each group.