Week 16 - 3/2-3/6 Teacher Toolbox

Sep 27, 2026

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Week 16 (3/2-3/6) Teacher Toolbox compiles practical, time-efficient STAAR review activities and classroom games designed to increase engagement while reinforcing key terms, concepts, and skills. It includes structured team competitions, quick response formats using personal whiteboards or board races, timed group contests, and adaptations of familiar game shows like Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. It also adds movement-based gallery walks, vocabulary bingo, graffiti-style test prep routines, and a Kahoot! bonus option for live student participation.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages6

Reading Time15 min

AccessFree to download

This Week’s Feature

Review Games That Use Time Effectively

Time Effective Review Games Continued: Resource Links

Bonus Activity: Kahoot

Making Test Prep Fun

Week 16: 3/2-3/6 This Weeks Feature: Here are several different review ideas and resources collected for you. Pick some activities that sound inviting and let the STAAR review be fun and engaging. REVIEW GAMES THAT USE TIME EFFECTIVELY: 1. Just give points: Divide the class into two (or more) teams and start asking questions. Call on the first hand raised, and if s/he’s right, give his team a point. If s/he’s wrong, the other teams get a chance to answer. Keep a tally on the board, and the team with the most points at the end wins. 2. Personal whiteboards: If you’re able to invest a little money, purchase mini whiteboards and dry erase markers, enough for each student. You ask questions out loud, and the students write the answers on their boards and hold them up. The first correct answer wins a point for their team. This game wastes almost no time, and the kids love it. If you want to save money, you can create your own whiteboards by laminating sheets of cardboard or cardstock. Students would then write with wet-erase markers. 3. Race at the board: Divide the class into two or three teams. One representative from each team comes to the board. You ask a question or give a problem, and the first person to write the correct answer on the board wins a point for his/her team. The catch: the students at the board only get one try. If they all miss the question, you take the answer from the first person in the audience who raises his hand. Be sure to keep this game moving to minimize wasted time from students moving to and from the board. 4. Group work contest: Assign a set of questions or problems to be answered by the group in a set amount of time. The group with the most correct answers wins. You’re really just adding a contest to a regular assignment, but the students appreciate the twist, especially if it comes with a prize such as bonus points, a homework pass, or candy. Time Effective Review Games Continued: Resource Links are on last page! 5. Un-Wheel of Fortune: This is Wheel of Fortune without the wheel. Have a phrase for the students to solve (preferably a key term or concept you are studying) . Divide the class into two teams and ask questions to each student, going back and forth between the teams. Tally points for each team as follows: If the student answers correctly, give one point and allow him/her to choose a letter. Award additional points for each time the letter appears. (For example, if Gavin guesses E and there are 3 E‘s, he gets 4 points: 1 for the correct answer and 3 for the 3 E‘s.) The student can then try to guess the puzzle. Award 5 points to the team that solves the puzzle. 6. Game Show (i.e. Jeopardy): While you may think this game requires lots of preclass prep work, it doesn’t have to. Yes, you need to set up some type of game board, but other than that all you need to do is choose categories based on the topics you want to review. When a student chooses “State capitals for 200” simply glance through your notes for an easier question.“Verbs for 2000”? Just ask a harder question. 7. Around the World: This classic individual game still works so well! The first two students pair off against each other. You ask a question, and whoever shouts the answer first wins. The winner stands and moves to the next contestant. The goal is to move as many seats as possible before losing, at which point the losing student sits in theseat of the person who bested him. The game ideally continues until one student makes it “around the world” and gets all the way back to his own seat. Often, though, the game simply ends when time is up, and the person who traveled the farthest wins. Bonus Activity-Kahoot: Students get to be in their own game show by answering live questions on their own devices. Teachers first need to create an account at [kahoot.com](kahoot.com) and then they can either use another teacher’s Kahoot! quiz or create their own. Teachers will get a game pin number to pass onto

FAQs

How do students participate in the bonus Kahoot activity?

Teachers create an account on kahoot.com, then use an existing quiz or build their own. They provide a game pin so students play the same live game simultaneously.

Sep 27, 2026

Uploaded by nayy☆