I want students to have fun reviewing so I use crossword puzzles, wordsearches and games.
We have a lot of standards to cover from 6th, 7th and 8th Grade...
so I divide the standards into categories: Nature of Science, Life Science 1, Life Science 2, Physical Science 1, Physical Science 2, Earth Science. Depending on how well students know the content I can remediate or enrich as I go.
Students start by completeing a crossword puzzle as homework.
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| Crosswords, BINGO & Quizzes |
We check it the next day in class and then depending on how well they did we will play BINGO or do a hands on activity such as a lab, station activity, cut and paste notes etc.
After every category, we take a quick 10 question vocabulary quiz. They are differentiated with a word bank. I also have anchor charts posted for students that need extra help.
We like to play games so I always have a board game ready to go. For FSSA Review I have game cards for each category: Nature of Science, Life Science, Physical Science, Earth/Space Science.
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| FSSA Science Review Board Game |
This game has 124 game cards. The gameboard includes illustrations and pitfalls (You got sucked into a black hole by gravity. Go Back 1 space.)
The game cards have the answers on them so the reader reviews while quizzing the other player.
I laminated the gameboard and copied the game cards on cardstock so I can use them again.