AVID Bingo

• Handouts

• Music

1. Distribute copies of Student Handout 3.5a: AVID Bingo Game Card. (A blank AVID Bingo Game Card is available for download via the Elementary Foundations curriculum webpage on MyAVID.)

2. While music is playing, students are to mingle with their classmates and find a category for which they can fill in their names. Inform students that they should keep going until the music stops, but remind them that this is not a race! Encourage them to have a brief discussion with their peer about the corresponding category when they find a name to record in a box.

   1. • 1. 1. 1. • Students should personally sign each other’s cards.

3. Start the music and tell students to begin.

4. Stop the music after about 10 minutes or when most students have talked to several of their classmates.

5. Allow time at the end for students to reflect and share, either verbally or in writing, some of the facts and similarities that they learned about their classmates.

To apply lesson for primary classes:

• Have students work with partners to complete the Bingo Game Card.

• Utilize an AVID Bingo Game Card Containing Images.

• Write letters or numbers that students are learning on the AVID Bingo Game Card. Have students identify the information, say things that start with the letter, or say things that represent the number written.

• Start the music each time students need to mingle and stop the music when it’s time to pair up with a partner.

To increase rigor:

• Use AVID Bingo to review core content before an exam.

• Provide students with a blank template and let them work in groups or with partners to create their own game boards.

• Vary the outcome expectations. Examples include the following:

  • • • • • • Blackout (i.e., all squares filled in)

            • Four in a row

            • Checkerboard