With all the testing, assemblies, and various schedules in a 5-12 public school, teachers invariably end up having to supervise a group of students they may not even teach for an hour or two without any real lesson plan. When that happens, I\u2019ve discovered an activity that keeps the students engaged and requires no real planning on your part (unless you want to).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeopardy Labs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jeopardy Labs provides a web-based jeopardy experience. It works best if you have access to an interactive whiteboard and projector, but it could possibly work OK without them. All it takes is to go to the website, type in a topic (e.g. chemistry review), and it searches through hundreds of teacher-created jeopardy-style games. Find one you like and get started. It\u2019s that easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s also super-easy to create your own jeopardy game. It\u2019s great because there\u2019s no software to install\u2013just use your web browser. You can even use HTML to incorporate things like images, subscripts, bold, italics, etc. Maybe someday Jeopardy Labs will incorporate a rich text editor onto their site to make those things easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n