How to make Power Point Jeopardy Game



How to create Power Point Jeopardy Game

Wow! Jeopardy! Jeopardy is “a television quiz game show based on trivia in topics such as history, literature, pop culture, and science. The show has a decade-long broadcast history in the United States since being created by Merv Griffin in the early 1960s (This definition comes from ).”

Today, educators consider applying the jeopardy game into their effective teaching strategies so that their classes increase integration of technology and pedagogy. When educators apply jeopardy game on their subjects’ areas, students will more engage in learning and studying. Hence, the jeopardy game becomes a successful approach for the teaching pedagogical role. The jeopardy game is an amazing way to motivate students in classroom and to review course materials. It also provides teachers with interactive teaching various activities and lessons that students love to play. I tried many times in my math classes during my practicum, and I found that students increased in their interesting, enthusiastic, collaborating on learning math courses. In addition, all students enjoyed and participated in playing the jeopardy game.

However, the problem is that when students have enhanced interests about the game in class, the class management will become harder control. Therefore, teachers should have good strategies for handling class or announce a game policy. In addition, class jeopardy game is different from television’s jeopardy game because it requires integrated team-based learning with game groups. Playing the jeopardy game with the team groups increases students’ participation, understanding course materials, their performance, and their course experience. Students focus on their learning and studying not for playing money. Some teachers use the jeopardy games on their review sections allowing students to understand concepts deeply, and students with team members can create their own jeopardy questions and answers which is another strategy for teachers to assess students’ knowledge and learning.

Here, I will tell some basic important instructions on how to create your own power point jeopardy game.

First, if you want to save your time, you can search on Google and type “jeopardy template”. You can decide which jeopardy template game you want to use it.

Second, you need to find how many categories with appropriate titles that you want to use fitting in your courses content. For example, I choose four categories making connection between Math and English courses, such as algebra, geometry, English terms, and famous literature.

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Third, each of the category numbers in hyperlinked to it correspond question. Therefore, you need to create your questions and provide the correct answers that are related to your courses materials. For example, I make one question and answer on algebra category with 10 points value.

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Fourth, you need to check your jeopardy game’s questions and answers that are correct posted on the playing board. Thus, you have to review the whole game one time.

Fifth, if you have more time, you can create more fancy ideas to add correct or wrong response sound, warning time limited, and so on.

In short, the team-based jeopardy game provides a good opportunity for students enhancing their learning interests and improving their performance. Moreover, the jeopardy game is a wonderful teaching strategy for educators on their instructional skills.

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