if you've never seen the tv show, I would suggest that you watch it.
once.
that's enough.
enough to make me a bit crazy (with major disappointment thrown in) at the number of adults in this country - educated adults - who fail miserably in this game.
one of the advantages of subbing is being able to see all the "stuff" in a variety of teacher arsenals, and try things out.
in a recent two-day assignment with 7th graders, I opted to try something fun for the last 20 minutes of a Friday afternoon.
using Brainquest, grade 5, we played our own version of "are you smarter..." and it was a huge success.
I asked them all to stand, and then went around the room, asking the questions in order off the cards.
if they answered correctly, they got another question.
if they answered incorrectly, they had to sit down, and the question went to the next person.
the "record" for number of correct answers in a row was 6.
and although it was very frightening when I went through most of the class before someone could tell me in what year we celebrated our country's 200th birthday, the kids had a lot of fun, and I felt as though it was "educational" fun, as well.
later,
Mrs. O'R
