Back to basics - Bingo Review

I love my students. I really do; however sometimes they don’t make the best choices. While other teachers liked to use Kahoot and Booklet to do reviews, I had a couple students who lost their Chromebook privileges. Playing in teams wasn’t the best solution, and I wanted to keep them engaged. So I needed a low-tech review activity and fast. About this time I came across a Bingo game I had made for my kids when we were homeschooling to review Greek letters. 

Bingo! Perfect! 

 So I made up just enough bingo boards for my class, and used our note cards we had been making in class to call out definitions and we reviewed our Latin roots. The kids enjoyed it so much they asked to do it again. 


   During the review I realized how some of my students were really   visual processors. They kept asking me to repeat what I was saying.   Later in the day I was going to have several of them again for math, so   during planning I made a multiplication Bingo game with google slides   with the multiplication facts on them so I could put them up on the   board. I used a google extension to shuffle the slides between each   game.


Bingo became our favorite review activity - and the students didn’t mind not being on their Chromebooks for a time. If you would like a template to make your own bingo game, I have a free template on TPT. I have also added several cleaned up versions that we used in class for purchase.

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