By Adam Powley (@MrPowley) In the B.C. years of my marriage (that is Before Children) my wife and I rocked Guitar Hero. Neither of us play guitar but ability to pretend to be rockers, enjoy the music, and just be goofy with each other got us through some tough times. We were in the B.C….
Category: Gamification
An Epic First Day of School
Thursday was one of the best first days of school I’ve ever had. It was an event that hooked the kids in and hopefully left them excited for the school year. All day long I kept hearing “this is awesome” and “best class ever” and the occasional “Mr. Stock you’re weird.” Keep in mind this…
Epic Reverse Quest
As the year was coming to a close a couple weeks ago, I was trying to think of some epic way to wrap everything up and recap the highlights from the entire year. I thought about doing a review Kahoot! or some sort of challenge activity. In years past I’ve had the scholars create board…
Review Dominoes
Materials: Domino Pages Time: 10-15 minutes (depending on how many boxes you want students to complete) Directions: Divide the students into groups of 3-4. Give each group a set of domino pages. Instruct each group to line up the pages so that the picture before and the picture after share a connection. Groups must be…
The Grid Challenge
Materials: Construction Paper, markers, 5-10 terms for the side of the page Time: 10-15 minutes (depending on how many boxes you want students to complete) Directions: Divide the students into teams of 2-4 players. Ask each team to come up with a random letter of the alphabet and write those letters along the top of…
