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Best Idea Ever: Swat the Answer

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Family and consumer science teacher Jennifer Low shares the following fun review activity. "On a wipe-off board or chalk board, draw horizontal and vertical lines similar to a Jeopardy board. Write the answers to the day's review questions in the squares - one answer per square -- in as few words as possible. Then arrange students into two teams and provide each team with a new fly swatter (the plastic handle ones are the best).

Choose a student from each team to go up to the board. Read a review question aloud and ask the two students at the board to find the answer and swat it. The first student to swat the correct answer scores a point for his or her team. Continue playing until each student has had a chance to go to the board. The team with the highest score when the game ends wins."

Submitted by: Jennifer Low, Creek Valley High School, Chappell, Nebraska.

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