The Crowd Game

The Crowd Game 

Level & Learning Outcomes

Through participating in this game students will review vocabulary and ideas that they have been studying


Materials needed 

  • questions and answer key

  • board and markers/ pencil and paper for keeping score

Object of Game

To get the most points by answering questions that your classmates cannot answer.


Rules of Play

  1. Choose one person to be in the hot seat. They will sit with their back to the crowd.

  2. Everyone listens to the question and quietly chooses an answer.
  3. If you need help in the hot seat, you can ask a friend (and find out how he answered), poll the class (and accept their answer), or ask the host for a clue (she will not give the answer, but can give guidance about how to answer. You can only use each help one time while you are in the hot seat.

Scorekeeping

If you answer correctly, you get one point for every member of the crowd who answered incorrectly. If you answer incorrectly, the crowd members who answered correctly split the points you have and the points you would have gained from the crowd  if you had answered correctly,

These examples come from the AE Live 20.5 Presentation Slides. Thank you to the AE Live Team who helped me design these slides.


Reflection
When I played this game with my teacher trainees, reviewing what we had learned about gamification, they loved it. When I played it on AE Live during the webinar, the participants also said that they loved it. The complicated part is the scorekeeping, of which I've tried several ways. The best was to give students who are not in the hotseat signals to use (I've used American sign language) or papers with ABCD that they can use. Although this game does not require technology, with my secondary school classes, I've created slide presentations, which helps keep the student in the hotseat from seeing how his or her peers are responding.








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