A Homemade PowerPoint GameBy

Kathleen SamulskiWayne State University

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Discovery Kids Network is launching a new television show, My Town, which will investigate towns all over the United States. They are searching across the country for articulate elementary students who will work as apprentice broadcasters to create and present their own hometown—live on camera! Discovery Kids is holding auditions in towns across the country, and thousands of students are trying out for the program. This week Discovery Kids is in your town, and the competition is tough! You must compete with other students displaying your finesse when it comes to writing conventions, vocabulary, and grammar. The well-spoken winner will secure the coveted spot as their town’s apprentice telecaster for Discovery Kids Network’s, My Town!

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The goal of the game is to be the first to cross the finish line and become the winner! Each player puts a game piece of their choice on the “start” space on the game board at the beginning

of the game. Students roll one die. The highest number rolls again to go first. Players rotate turns clockwise. Players begin each turn by rolling the die, and moving their game piece accordingly.

When players land on a video camera space, they may select a card. Players must follow the directions on the card and place the card on the bottom of the pile.

When players land on a star question space they must select a question to answer. There are 2 levels of questions: Beginner and Advanced. If players answer a Beginner question correctly, they move forward 1 space. Incorrect Beginner

answers cause players to move backward 1 space. If players answer an Advanced question correctly, they move forward 2 spaces. Incorrect answers will

cause players to move back 2 spaces. If a player lands on a space where another player has a game piece, they must send the other player

back 3 spaces. When players are sent backward for any reason, they may not answer a question if they land on a

question space! As questions are answered correctly, players “X” that question number off their game headquarters

slide printout from slide 12 & 13. Once a question has been answered correctly, it may not be selected again.

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Game board: Print out slides 6 and 7, cut off the edges, then tape together

Game Pieces: Print out slide 5, and cut out your selected game pieces.

Game Cards: Print out slide 8, and cut out the game cards.

Star Questions: Print out slides 12 & 13, and make enough copies for all game players to have 1 of each sheet.

Die: The teacher will provide one die to use when playing the game.

**The materials will last longer if printed on card stock!**

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Your co-anchor needs your help.

Trade places with any other player.

You have a hot lead. Move ahead 4 spaces.

You are stuck in traffic on

your way to a shoot. Go back 3 spaces.

You cannot

film your presentation due to bad weather.

Lose a turn.

You are on you way to

interview a government official. Take another

turn.

You forgot your notes. Go back to Start.

Read the following tongue twister:

She sells sea shells by the seashore.

Your microphone

is not working. Go back 1 space.

You won an award for excellent reporting. Move ahead

5 spaces.

You work well on

a team. Advance 2 spaces.

You flub your lines. Go back 3

spaces.

Give a weather report to your

fellow players.

Name a topic for a

news report that kids will think is important.

You get the award for

Employee of the Month. Move

ahead 4 spaces!

You’re late for an interview. Go back

2 spaces.

You break a big news story.

Advance 3 spaces

Educational ObjectivesAudience Students in Grades 2-4

Subject Area Objectives: Students will….

use common grammatical structures correctly when speaking including time relationships, verb tenses, and causal and temporal relationships.

In the context of writing, correctly use subjects and verbs that are in agreement; verb tenses; nouns and possessives; commas in a series; and begin use of quotation marks and capitalization in dialogue.

determine the meaning of words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms, multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and literary terms using strategies and resources.

use common grammatical structures correctly when speaking including appositives, participial phrases, adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs, and prepositional phrases to express ideas in more complex sentences.

identify the appropriate punctuation for different types of sentences.

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Copyright Copyright 2007 Kathleen Samulski Permission to copy this game at no cost is granted to all teachers and

students of non-profit schools. Permission is also granted to all teachers and students of non-profit

schools to make revisions to this game for their own purposes, on the condition that this copyright page and the credits page remain part of the game. Teachers and students who adapt the game should add their names and affiliations to the credits page without deleting any names already there.

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Adventure”!

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Select your question level:

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a. Work ethic

b. Truthfulness

c. Public speaking

d. Attitude

2. Please correct the punctuation in the following sentence:

Today I am reporting from Michigan, a great state for spending time outdoors biking hiking boating fishing skiing and camping.

a. Today I am reporting from Michigan, a great state for spending time outdoors biking, hiking, boating fishing, skiing and camping.

b. Today I am reporting from Michigan, a “great” state for spending time outdoors biking hiking boating fishing skiing and camping.

c. Today I am reporting from Michigan, a great state for spending time outdoors biking, hiking, boating, fishing, skiing and camping.

d. Today I am reporting from Michigan, a great state for spending time outdoors biking hiking boating fishing skiing and camping?

3.Complete the following analogy:

Big : Small :: Fast : ________________

a. slow

b. quick

c. car

d. last

4. Read the following groups of words:tall-long

honest-truthfulsilly-goofybig-large

What is the relationship between the sets of words? They are:

a. homonyms

b. synonyms

c. antonyms

d. rhyming words

5.Choose the verb that best completes the sentence:

This is Andre Benton, ________________ live from Michigan.

a. reports

b. reported

c. reporting

d. report

6. Complete the following analogy:won : one :: herd : ______

a. two

b. cows

c. group

d. heard

7. Select the verb which best completes the following:

Jeff Corwin currently __________ to save endangered ecosystems and species worldwide.

a. works

b. working

c. work

d. worked

8. What do we call words that sound the same but have different meanings such as:

sale-sailhi-high

bore-boar?

a. synonyms

b. homonyms

c. antonyms

d. adjectives

9.Complete the following analogy:

sick : ill :: difficult : ______________

a. simple

b. feverish

c. hard

d. healthy

10. Select the group of words which are antonyms:

a. funny-silly

b. time-thyme

c. smart-intelligent

d. excited-bored

11. Choose the verb that is in past tense.

a. run

b. running

c. runned

d. ran

a. walking

b. ate

c. found

d. will be

13. Make the following phrase possessive to show that the bike belongs to Shauna:

Shaunas bike

a. Shaunas’ bike

b. Shauna’s bike

a. Shauna,s bike

a. Shaunas “bike”

14. What are the nouns in the following sentence:

The cat slept lazily in her bed.

a. cat

b. bed

c. cat & slept

d. cat & bed

15. When listing words in a series, which of the following punctuation is appropriate?

a. periods

b. apostrophes

c. commas

d. quotation marks

16. What type of punctuation is used to make words possessive?

a. comma

b. quotation marks

c. apostrophe

d. none of the above

17. Words that mean the same or almost the same are:

a. opposites

b. rhymes

c. synonyms

d. antonyms

18. What is the name given to a person, place, or thing?

a. adjective

b. noun

c. verb

d. possessive

19. What are antonyms?

a. Words with opposite meanings

b. Words that have similar meanings

c. Words that rhyme

d. All of the above

20. What punctuation is used to show dialogue?

a. apostrophe

c. parenthesis

b. exclamation points

d. quotation marks

21. An adjective describes a(n):

a. verb

c. noun

b. question

d. all of the above

22. What punctuation is used at the end of a question?

a. period

c. comma

b. question mark

d. exclamation point

23. What punctuation belongs at the end of a statement?

a. period

c. exclamation point

b. hyphen

d. quotation marks

24. We use an exclamation point at the end of a(n):

a. question

c. exclamation

b. statement

d. none of the above

25. Which of the following should be capitalized?

a. a person’s name

c. the first word in a sentence

b. street names

d. all of the above

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CreditsAll teachers and students at non-profit schools can use, revise, or adapt this game at will at no cost on the condition that all prior designers are cited.

Originally designed by Kathleen Samulski School: Wayne State University, Date: October 21, 2007 Title: “The Articulate Anchor Adventure”

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