Hello teachers!
I'll show you an idea of how to use
Kahoot program, a free software game-based learning platform designed to create
questions and interact with them in the classroom through different devices.
When a session is created, Kahoot gives us a password, and by that password all
of us can enter in the same session and compete and learn from each other at a
time. In this case we will use Kahoot to study the political map of Europe.
Target audience
The
activity created is thought to be developed with third key stage (5th - 6th
grade).
Aims:
- To revise
the unit we have been learning about the last sessions, the political map of
Europe.
- To create
a game in groups and play with their peers in class
Competences:
- Management
of information and digital: the students
use the computer or other devices.
- Knowledge
and interaction with the world: is a Geography
class, specifically we are working the political map of Europe.
- Interpersonal: In groups, they have to cooperate and respect
the opinion of others
Classroom Management
Having worked the political map of Europe in
previous sessions, all students will be disposed in groups of 3-5 students with
a device per group that they will use to create the activity. They will have 20
minutes to think about the 5 questions that will make to the other groups. The
teacher will go group by group observing that the questions are well made and
are not very difficult. When all groups have all ready to ask the questions,
each group will make to the other groups five questions and go counting the
points. At the end of class the group that has most point wins.
Material: One device per group
Assessment
The teacher will take into account the process
of creation of the game by the groups, not only the final result of the
competition. The teacher also will observe if all the members of the group participate
actively in their groups during the creation of the game, if they create the
questions in English correctly, if they need much help or not and if they
treated properly the computer or the device.
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
This activity is mainly a HOT in the Bloom’s
Taxonomy because the students have to identify
which contents they can use to make the questions in order to create the questions. Finally, when we have created the game, they use
LOTS because they remember what they
learned on the previous sessions.
Four English skills
The creation of this game involves mainly reading
and writing. In order to create the game all of them they have to read the unit
about the political map of Europe and write on the device the questions
correctly in order to make the questions. Although we could also use the speaking and
listening if we added a variant that students have also read aloud to his peers
the question.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages: it’s a very motivating game for
the students. Easy to use and very
intuitive. We don’t need to create an account, simply with a PIN we can play. They
learn playing.
Disadvantages: if the internet connection doesn’t
work we cannot play. Sometimes they get focused on the competition and forget
the real aim of the game. Another
problem may be the lack of participation of some students in their respective
groups.
