From the end of the first quarter to the present, I have been having struggles with my 7th period. This period has many issues: its at the end of the day, many of the students are of the naughty variety, and many of the students are of the immature variety. Due to the time issue and student chemistry, teaching this period has been pretty painful so far until yesterday. I played a brainstorming game with my students that I found on the link below.
This game was successful and showed me that the students can work well together. At the end of the lesson, one of my students came up to me and said he wanted to play the game again next week. Whew! I must admit that having some success and making progress with this period feels pretty good. Use games! It works!
Thanks for the resource! I've tried a couple games with my students and they do work! The only issue I have is when their competitiveness turns into arguments but that could be solved fairly easily.
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