jeopardy review game for teachers

Okay, so I wanted to spice things up a bit in my classroom, and I remembered those Jeopardy review games we used to play way back when. Figured I’d try to make one myself. It sounded kinda daunting at first, but it turned out to be pretty manageable.

First, I brainstormed the categories. I teach 7th-grade history, so I went with stuff we’d been covering recently: Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, and a “Random Facts” category for good measure. You gotta keep ’em on their toes, right?

Next, I came up with the questions and answers. This was probably the most time-consuming part. I tried to make them range in difficulty, from easy 100-point questions to trickier 500-point ones. I used my textbook, old quizzes, and even some online resources to get a good mix.

I decided not to be overcomplicate things, just create a simple table in google slides, filling rows and columns with all I need.

• I created a table with six columns and six rows.
• I put the category names across the top row.
• Then, I filled in the point values down the side, from 100 to 500.
• The “hard” work was to populate those cells with the “answers” (which are really the questions in Jeopardy, but you know what I mean).

I made another slides with all the question correspoding with the answers in the table.

Finally, I tested it out! Played a mock round with my family, there were definetely something needed to be improved.

It’s not super fancy, but it does the job. The kids are gonna love it, and it’s a way more engaging way to review than just another worksheet. Mission accomplished!