Use these PowerPoint games and the game cards to provide students an opportunity to practice and review new vocabulary.

• Jeopardy could be used for grades K-5 self-contained classroom.  The categories could be the content areas.  The teacher would type in a Jeopardy-like clue for each word. 
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire
• Hillsborough Squares is played like the old Hollywood Squares Game.  This game requires no advanced preparation.  Divide the class into two teams, X and O.  A team chooses a square, but can only put an X or O on the square by defining the vocabulary word card drawn.  Holiday Squares.ppt
• Wheel of Fortune
• Bingo
• $25,000 Pyramid Game
• Password

  The PowerPoint game is simple to setup.  The teacher types a vocabulary word on each slide in the subtitle textbox.  Then press F5 on the keyboard to start the game.  Setup directions are found on slide 2. Download Password Game

   

• The game cards listed below and in the right column contain the vocabulary words selected by a panel under the supervision of Dr. Robert Marzano for Tennessee schools, grades K-10, for each content area.  The game cards were created in Microsoft Word using the Game Card Template. The game boards may be printed from the Internet on a black and white or color printer.  The game cards can be printed on Avery Business Cards #5371 which can be folded and separated for use or printed on heavy paper and cut apart.