Play Your Way to Better Grades

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Play Your Way to Better Grades

• ASTA 2008
• Leigh Ruland-Miller
• Palmer Pillans Middle School

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So

• Need to increase CRT scores
• Need to increase SAT and ASA scores
• Need to increase AYP
• Then PLAY!

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Advantages

• Once created youre done finito its saved
  forever
• You can edit your creation easily, simply by
  changing the questions.
• Use the skills learned by making your game to add
  interest to other class presentations.
• Post your games to your schools website
• Best of all, you really look smart!

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Let Play

• Jeopardy or a fair facimile of

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Let Play

• Just another little question and answer game

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Or

• Spiff up your lesson by teaching using a souped
  up graphic organizer

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How

• First, decide what kind of game your looking for
  and design a template to be used for other
  objectives.

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Smart Science

• Keep it simple or not its up to you youre
  the game master.
• Design all of your question, answer, and topic
  slides BEFORE inserting action buttons or
  hyperlinks.
• When doing this remember to INSERT and DUPLICATE
  SLIDE its a real time saver.

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• Question
• Category 1 5 points

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• Answer
• Category 1 5 points

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• Question
• Category 1 10 points

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• Answer
• Category 1 10 points

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• Question
• Category 1 15 points

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• Answer
• Category 1 15 points

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• Question
• Category 2 5 points

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• Answer
• Category 2 5 points

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• Question
• Category 2 10 points

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• Answer
• Category 2 10 points

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• Question
• Category 2 15 points

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• Answer
• Category 2 15 points

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• Topic
• Category 1

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• Topic
• Category 2

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• Now youre ready to finish designing your
  beginning board.
• Go to Slide Show
• Choose Action Buttons
• Select what type of button shape you want then
  draw the button on your game slide

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• When you draw the button, the action setting pull
  down menu will pop-up automatically.
• This is why you have to design the Q A slides
  already.
• Choose Hyperlink to then scroll down to the
  slide that you want to link this button to and
  there you have it.

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• Finish Designing your game and linking your
  slides.
• SAVE your work and end the name with TEMPLATE
• Then you can SAVE AS and title it
• Type your questions and answers in.
• Have fun playing with your students

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• Copy the action buttons and save yourself some
  time and theyll all be the same size and color,
  etc.
• Right click on the button and choose action
  settings
• Then change the hyperlink to the slide you want.

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• Finish adding buttons and typing by adding Text
  Box on top of the buttons
• Select the action button and text box and group
  them together by choosing the Draw menu

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• Dont forget to add two action buttons to your Q
  A slides.
• One to go back to the main game board and one to
  go to the answer to the question.

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Let Play

• Just another little question and answer game

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How

• Again, just like with the Jeopardy style game,
  youll need to create a Correct Answer slide
  and a Wrong Answer slide first.
• Then create your question slides and the opening
  game board slide.

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KNOWLEGDE IS POWER
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KNOWLEGDE IS POWER
Mass is measured using a

• Graduated cylinder
• metric ruler
• Triple-beam Balance

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WRONG
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KNOWLEGDE IS POWER
What sub-atomic particles are found in the
nucleus of the atom?
Protons and neutrons Neutrons and
electrons Protons and electrons
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WRONG
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KNOWLEGDE IS POWER
Whos your favorite science teacher?
Ms. Miller Ms. Miller Ms. Miller
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WRONG
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CORRECT
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Or

• Spiff up your lesson by teaching using a souped
  up graphic organizer

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No more excuses

• JUST PLAY!

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