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ELA 4: Create a Successful Jeopardy Review Game 25 Views
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When your grades are in jeopardy, there's no better way to study up than Jeopardy. As a review game, not just watching it on TV. Yes, unfortunately a wise-cracking Sean Connery won't be included in your game. Keep a stiff upper lip.
Transcript
- 00:06
[Dino and Coop singing]
- 00:14
Sometimes, studying can be downright boring. [Student asleep at his desk]
- 00:16
But it doesn't have to be. A great way to spice up any study/review session is to incorporate [Coop watching TV]
- 00:22
the most exciting and amazing gameshow in television history!
- 00:26
That's right.... come on down to… Shop ‘Til You Drop!
Full Transcript
- 00:30
Oops. Wrong game. We meant...
- 00:32
This… Is… Jeopardy!
- 00:34
So let's review the rules of this, uh… review. [Picture of Jeopardy presenter]
- 00:38
This is a jeopardy board.
- 00:40
Along the top you'll see six different categories. We've thrown in some placeholder [Finger pointing to the different categories]
- 00:43
categories in there, but your teacher will plug in what they want you to review.
- 00:47
Below each category are five questions. Each question is worth a certain amount of points.
- 00:51
And of course, the more points it's worth, the more difficult the question.
- 00:55
You didn’t think we'd give away points easily, did you? [Arrows show easiest questions at the top and hardest questions at the bottom of the grid]
- 00:58
Depending on what your teacher decides, you'll either play as an individual or part of a team.
- 01:02
The first player or team chooses a category and point score, and then the teacher reads
- 01:07
the question.
- 01:08
The first team to buzz in and correctly answer wins those points – and they get to choose
- 01:13
the next question to tackle. And they get to, uh…hear themselves talk a bit more. [Students playing jeopardy in class]
- 01:18
Bonus.
- 01:19
Unfortunately, famous Jeopardy host Alex Trebek will probably not come to your classroom to
- 01:23
lend a hand. He’s booked solid this week for mustache maintenance. [Trebek at a barber shop]
- 01:28
At the end of the game, your teacher might choose to do a Final Question, where you can
- 01:32
wager as many of the points you've earned as you'd like… in hopes of sealing the victory.
- 01:37
Of course, you shouldn't focus too much on winning. [Coop pointing at a blackboard]
- 01:40
In the end, the real winners are the ones who get the most out of the review sessions
- 01:44
– the points and teams are just a way to keep things interesting.
- 01:47
That said…kick some butt and rack up the most points. Because winning rules. [A foot kicks someone in the butt]
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