I wanted to share with you something that I have been doing with my Chemistry class to help them review for the midterm that is coming up. Students have been working with partners or by themselves to create review powerpoint presentations. They can choose to do a simple powerpoint or (and this is what most of the students choose) they could make a Jeopardy, Family Feud or Who wants to be a millionaire powerpoint game. I gave students four periods to work on this and their presentation had to cover a full topic as defined by the standards (when I teach it I teach each topic as 3 or 4 mini topics, so it's a good chunk of material to do a whole topic).
Then I reviewed their work and put them up on my webpage for kids to use when studying at home. They are also great to have when you are looking to fill 10 or 15 minutes in class. Plus the kids love that you use something they made. Their presentations are often challenging because they want to try to stump their classmates.
What things have you done in your classroom to review for major tests?
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