Weather Jeopardy Review
Project Information
By: Dani D.,
Partner Teacher Information
Mrs. Andersen
Brief Description of Project
My project will teach the children about different types of weather, clouds, air, and storms in a fun, kid friendly way using jeopardy.
Objectives & Assessment
Learning Objectives for Partner-Teacher
She will learn that technology may be easier for her to use than anything else. It is also much more enjoyable for the students. Instead of them to just be sitting there listening to her talk, they can be playing a game and learning at the same time. Hopefully she will continue to use technology.
Assessment Plan for Partner-Teacher
My partner teacher will show that she has learned this by using the PowerPoint as a review tool before the test and continuing to use technology in the classroom and make more jeopardy PowerPoints to use for review.
Learning Objectives for Partner-Teacher's Students
They will learn that technology is much more fun to use instead of just sitting there listening to the lesson they can review things and have fun at the same time. Hopefully this will inspire them to maybe want to do this program when they get older or get involved in technology.
Assessment Plan for Partner-Teacher's Students
The children will show what they have learned by doing fairly well on the unit test, getting the answers right on jeopardy, and participating in the fun, educational review game.
Equipment & Materials
Hardware Needed for Project
Laptop, Multimedia Cart
Software Needed for Project
PowerPoint, Garage Band
Other materials Needed for Project
FOSS Science Kits, Science Text Book
Procedures
First, meet with your partner-teacher and discuss what type of project you would like to do and try to understand your teacher's expectations of the project.
Then gather all the information and materials that you will need for the project.
Go to atomiclearning.com and download the jeopardy template.
Edit the title to your liking so if you are doing a weather jeopardy like me you would title it, Weather Jeopardy.
You might want to email your teacher to see what categories and types of questions that they would like on the presentation.
Maybe you might want to get a science text book or kit to see for yourself what your partner teacher's class has been studying.
Gather all the information and insert it into the correct category of the presentation. After you finish about two categories, meet with your partner teacher and show them what you have done.
Continue working until finishing all the categories.
When completed, ask your partner teacher if they would like any special graphics or sound.
If so, add those in with GarageBand and such.
View your presentation once on your own to make sure every slide goes back to the game board.
Present your project to your partner teacher's class and have a good time doing it. Also make sure it is fun for the kids to play but that they are also learning at the same time.
Curriculum or NETS Standards for Project
Understand characteristics of weather conditions and climate, Identify types of clouds, Analyze the relationship between clouds, temperature, and weather patterns, Know basic weather tools
Results of Assessment:
Assessment Results for Partner-Teacher
Yes because she said that she will continue using technology in her classroom and make it more fun for the kids. She even helped me think of some new ideas to make the presentation better for next year.
Assessment Results for Partner-Teacher's Students
Yes, they did learn what they were supposed to because each team had just about the same number of points and every person from every team just about answered a question correctly.
Reflection on Project
Positive GenYES Memories
The best parts of Gen Yes were actually making the questions and inserting them into slides with pretty awesome backgrounds. Meeting with my partner teacher was very fun and presenting to her class was a joy.
Negative GenYES Memories
The hardest parts were making sure every slide automatically goes back to the game board and sometimes it was hard thinking of questions.
