SLAP GAME REVIEW TECHNIQUE

      This strategy is particularly good with vocabulary or term reviews.  It may be adapted for all sorts of science, math term, social studies, and English reviews. 

·       Plan some sort of winners’ rewards (Losers rewards are also nice…perhaps a piece of candy for each…?)

·       Be absolutely certain that one of the students elaborates on the correct answer after it is chosen.  (That way the review aspects of the activity will be particularly effective.)

PREPARATION

·       Make a list of events, ideas, terms, etc. which you wish to review; include definitions, etc. for your master copy.

·       Divide the number of participating students by two.  (That will be the number of pairs that you will have and the number of sets of  slap cards that you will need to prepare.)

·       Make sets of slap cards for each pair of students, printing them on card stock in characters large enough to be easily read by both players.

                                                                                ACTIVITY

·       Separate students into pairs by having them place their desks facing one another and creating a single playing surface.

·       Give each pair of students a set of cards to lay out on the playing surface, half with the writing facing each player. (That way, each player will have to read half of the items upside down, and no one can claim an advantage.)

·       Each student is to place both hands on top of his/her head, or out like wings, or folded in prayer, or whatever other attitude you can think of to make the game fun.

·       You, as the director, read a definition or description of a term from your sheet.  Students are to locate the card with the term that matches the definition.  The first one of each pair to get the slip takes possession of it.  (In case of a tie, use scissors/rock/paper as a tiebreaker.)

·       The person in each pair with more slips at the end of the game gets the superior piece of candy or whatever you have chosen to reward the winners.