Materials Needed:
PowerPoint Template: Disney Characters, Avengers, Mario, Minecraft, SpongeBob, Disneyland Rides, Disney Villains, Disney Cars
Worksheet one per student
Wireless mouse or mouse students have access to
Directions:
Open up the Virtual Sticker Chart PowerPoint. DO NOT PROJECT IT AS A SLIDESHOW. Instead, open it up and keep it on the editing page. Make sure to hide the slide preview along the left-hand side so students can’t see the point values on the next slide. Duplicate your screen so the kids can see the PowerPoint edit screen. Place the mouse so students can walk up and move things around without your help! (Example picture below.) Divide students into teams or tables. Assign each table a color that corresponds to the color dots along the right-hand side of the sticker chart.
Students will work on their worksheet and/or task cards. As soon as they have one done, they should raise their hand, and the teacher will check it off. If they are correct, they will walk up to the computer and move one of their color stickers to a random picture’s column. The pictures are worth random predetermined point values that the student’s don’t know. They are essentially just guessing which ones they think are positive points and which ones are negative points. The game continues like this until their assignment is done or you run out of time. Some teams will strategize and put all their stickers in one column. Other teams will just put them randomly in all the columns. WARNING: Each student gets to move one stick per problem they do.
With about 5 minutes until you need to be completely done, stop everyone. Have one student be a scorekeeper for each team. They need to write down how many “stickers” they have of their color in each of the columns or pictures. (Example: Joy: 3, Rex: 4, Tigger: 0, etc.) When all teams have that recorded, change the PowerPoint to the next slide to reveal the point values. They will just multiply the number of stickers they had in each column by the point value it is worth. Then add all their points together. The group with the highest number of points win. (Note- Some teams will end up in the negatives. That is totally normal.)
FAQs and Tips:
To make the game more fun, sometimes I say the group with the highest scores wins and sometimes I say the group with the lowest score wins.
Be sure to change out the pictures and point values each time you play. You don’t think kids will remember, but they do. 😊 There are multiple versions on our website.
Use the same PowerPoint for different class periods but have a different scoring slide for each period. That way kids can’t go tell their friends which one is worth the most points during the passing period. That is why most templates have multiple point screens. You will only use one per period but should mix them up throughout the day.
REMINDERS: TO EDIT ANY OF THE TEMPALTES YOU WILL FIRST NEED TO DOWNLOAD THEM TO YOUR COMPUTER. NOBODY IS ABLE TO ALTER THE ORIGINALS AS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE USE THEM. ALL POWERPOINTS ARE MEANT TO BE USED IN POWERPOINT AND NOT GOOGLE SLIDES.