SWAT THE SPOT!

This is a decidedly low tech game that uses two flyswatters. It will work well any time you have facts or vocabulary words to be memorized.

Just spread out your vocabulary words on the chalkboard or the wall. Divide the class into two teams (I personally divide the teams subtly so that I know they are somewhat equally matched). Each team sends a member up to the board with a flyswatter. I give a definition or a question orally. The first team to “swat the spot” (cover the correct word with a flyswatter) gets a point for his/her team.

The game is fast moving and sometimes little raucous, but boy does it motivate students!

Dauna Easley
Reprinted from Techniques, Sept. 2004, p.37