Students love to play games in class, so anytime you can create an educational game, you will have engaged students who are enjoying the learning process. Although games do require some advanced planning, even simple games like Around the World or Bingo can thrill students who are tired of the normal school routine.
Preparing to Play Bingo
In order to play Bingo in your class as a review of material learned, you must first create your bingo boards. These can be easily made from drawing on a piece of paper, or printing the grid pattern from the computer. Come up with a list of approximately 25 different terms or vocabulary words that the students should know. List them all on the board, and have your students decide which terms they want to include on their particular Bingo sheet.
Younger students who are not familiar with the game of Bingo should be encouraged to make their sheet unique. The more different their sheet is from their classmates, the better chance they have of receiving Bingo first, if they guess at which words you will call out. If you have a mixed ability group, consider either writing words on some sheets, or allowing students to help each other.
How to Play Bingo in the Classroom
Pass out markers if you like, or have students use a pencil to cross out terms as they are called out. You should have your own list of terms as well, with a question or definition pertaining to each one. Have your students raise their hands to guess the correct answer. Once the correct answer is determined, have students cross out that term on their sheets. You can determine the Bingo winner by whoever gets a row filled in, or whoever gets their entire sheet filled in, depending on how much time you have to play. You can also continue playing until you have a first, second and third place winner.
Extending Bingo to Math Class
You can use Bingo to teach a variety of money skills. You can review coin values, adding money, making change, and more. You can use Bingo to review addition, subtraction and multiplication facts. With a little bit of preparation you can use your Bingo sheets for any type of math review, with the answers on the Bingo sheets, and the questions called out for students to work out either on paper or in their head.
If you want, you can laminate your blank Bingo sheets before students write on them, and then have them use white board markers to mark their answers. After wiping the sheets clean, you will be able to reuse the sheets for any subject and class in the future. This cuts down on the advanced preparation necessary for future Bingo games. You can also alter the rules of the game to make the game take up more or less time as necessitated by your schedule.
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