ERIC ED390680: Games & Icebreakers.

25 Pages·1994·0.65 MB·English

by  ERIC

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SE 057 312
ED 390 680
Games & Icebreakers.
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National Energy Education Development Project,
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*Alternative Energy Sources; Cooperative Learning;
DESCRIPTORS
*Educational Games; Electricity; Elementary Secondary
Education; *Energy Conservation; *Environmental
Education; Group Activities; *Science Activities;
Science Instruction
ABSTRACT
This booklet contains activities related to energy
conservation and sources of energy that are suitable for groups
containing people of different ages. The activities promote
brainstorming, group sharing, and cooperative learning. Activities
include: Energy Name Game; Energy Pantomime; Energy Source Relay
Race; Energy Chants; This Week in Energy Conservation, Energy Bingo;
Energy Roundup; Electric Connections; Energy Match Game; Energy
Eliminators; Bumper Stumpers; Most Wanted Energy Wasters; and Energy
Squares. (JRH)
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This Week In Energy Conservation
Energy Bingo
Energy Roundup
Electric Connections
Energy Match Game
Energy Eliminators
Bumper Stumpers
Most Wanted Energy Wasters
Energy Squares
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ENERGY NAME GAME
example: Bob Biomass, Martha Microwave, Georgette Gener-
ator, or Michael Megawatt. Tell the members of the group that
Purpose of ActMty
no relatives will be allowed in the gamethere can't be both
Bob and Barbara Biomass. Therefore, everyone should think
a short and easy way to introduce
Energy Name Game is
of two or more last names.
people in a group. It requires no preparation and very little
is suited for all ages.
time. This
activity
The group leader or a random group member begins by saying,
"My name is..." and then his first name, followed by his new
Preparation: None
energy last name. Then the person to his left says the first
person's first and last name, and then his new energy name.
Time: 10 minutes for a group of 12
Then, the third person gives the first two names and then his
own energy name. This continues until the final person, sitting
to the right of the group leader, gives everyone's name and then
his own.
GET READY
Before you get started, ask if anyone in the group is having a
No preparation required.
problem thinking of an energy last name. For those who are
having a problem, ask them to tell the group their first name.
GET SET
Then have the group brainstorm several last names for them.
If during the game someone in the group has a problem
Seat the members of the group in a circle facing inward.
remembering a person's first or last name, have members of
the group give that person a hint. For example: If the person's
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name is Tim Toaster, someone in the group could say "you put
your bread in it in the morning." If the person's name is Peter
The group leader should tell
the students that they will now be
Petroleum, a group member could say "you make gasoline
choosing new second names. Their new second names should
from it."
begin with the same letter as their first names and be energy
related. The second name could be a source of energy, an
energy consuming or producing device, or energy term. For
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ENERGY PANTOMIME
GET READY
Purpose of Activity
Duplicate the sheet of pantomimes (ten per sheet) according to
the number of people you want to have in each group. The sheet
Energy Pantomime is a quick and easy way to break a
of pantomimes is included in this booklet on page 16. Feel free
group into several smaller groups. It gets the audience
to use this sheet, or to make up your own. You will need enough
moving, looking, thinking, and acting. Energy Panto-
slips to hand out to everyone. If you have a small group, you
mime will produce a random mix of groups or a mix of
may want to use less than ten pantomimes.
groups by ages depending on how the slips are handed
out. It is short, easy to prepare, and fun for your audience.
GET SET
It requires only one staff member to run, although many
can be involved. This activity is suited for all ages.
separate pantomime slips. If you
Cut the pantomime sheets into
want your groups to contain a random mixture of people, hand
Preparation: Low
out the slips randomly. If you want to divide the groups by age
level, or by students' strengths and personalities, fold the
Time: 5 minutes
pantomime slips in half, write a student's name on each slip,
and distribute the slips.
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they must now begin to pantomime their energy source or user.
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They may make sound effects and hand motions, but no
Explain to the students that they are going to be broken into
talking, whispering, or reading lips. The students should walk
smaller groups. Tell the students that each of them will be
around the room searching for others pantomiming the same
source or object. Once all the members of the groups have
handed a slip of paper with an energy source or user on it. They
found each other, the students will be neatly divided into
must not say the name of their source or energy producing or
consuming device aloudjust read it, and put it in their pock-
groups.
ets. Hand out (or have assistants hand out) the pantomimes.
Once all the slips have been handed out, tell the students that
CONSERVATION FOR OUR NA11011
as there are group members. This should take five minutes or
so, depending on the size of the group.
Purpose of Activity
Explain the game to the group with this introduction: slap :our
thighs once with both hands and say CON, clap once and say
This activity teaches brainstorming and cooperation
SER, snap your right fingers and say VA, and then your left
skills to a group or groups of eight to 15 people. It
and say TION. Slap your thighs again and say FOR, clap your
reinforces ideas of group sharing and cooperative educa-
hands and say OUR, snap your right fingers and say NA, and
tion, as well as assuring knowledge of some conservation
snap your left and say TION. Slap your thighs a third time and
tips. It is a short activity, useful as an icebreaker for new
say CON, clap once and say SER, snap your right fingers and
groups. There is also a possibility of light competition
say VA, and then your left and say TION. Slap your thighs a
between groups. This activity is suited for all ages.
fourth time and say READY, clap your hands and say BEGIN.
This time between the snaps you must give a conservation tip.
PreparatIcn: Low
Each cycle should take three to four seconds.
lime: 20 minute§ for a group of ten
After the introduction, you should give three or four conserva-
tion tips between the snaps. Do not repeat the introduction with
each tip. You can reinforce the cadence by giving the instruc-
tions to the group between the snaps. For example: slap, clap,
snap YOU CAN ONLY snap, slap, clap, snap (sscs) GIVE A
GET READY
CON (sscs) SERVA (sscs) TION TIP (sscs) BETWEEN (sscs)
THE SNAPS (sscs) IF YOU CAN'T (sscs) THE GROUP
You will need a marker and a large sheet of paper (about
MUST (sscs) START OVER (sscs) AGAIF
poster-size) for each group. Seat the group in a circle near a
chalkboard or wall where you can hang up the paper.
Tell the group to study the sheet of paper because it will not be
posted during the game. Everybody will have to remember
GET SET
three to five of the conservation tips because no one can repeat
what someone else has said. If someone forgets or repeats, the
Select one person from each group as the group leader,
and one
circle must begin again. The person who has made the mistake
h group as the recorder.
person from eac
begins with the introduction, and the game continues until you
have made a complete
circle with everyone giving a tip be-
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tween the snaps.
Instruct the group to brainstorm ideas on
NOTE: If you are running more than one circle at a time,
energy conservation
in the home and on the road. The group leader should call on
instruct the groups that they may have to begin again on their
measures.
people from the group for energy conserving tips or
own if someone makcs a mistake.
The recorder should list these tips on the paper. Each idea
should be simple and no longer than four or five syllables. For
example, "Turn off lights," "Tune-up," and "Insulate" are
simple and short. The members of the group should all contrib-
ute to the list, and help each other with ideas. Continue brain-
storming until the group has at least the same number of ideas
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ENERGY SOURCE REM' RACE
through five. They should fold and tear the sixth sheet into
Purpose of Activity:
eight equal pieces. Inform the students that there must be no
talking at all during the game, and they must walk to the game
tests students' ability to rec-
leader and back to their groups. If they do run, they will be
Energy Source Relay Race
ognize important pictorial representations of energy
asked to return and walk. If they talk, they will automatically
sources or energy producing, consuming, or conserving
be disqualified.
devices and materials. It is based on the game show "Win,
Lose, or Draw." This activity is suited for
.. ages.
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One Went from each group is chosen as the opening artist.
Preparation:
Low
He will approach the game leader and receive the first energy
lime:
term as soon as the starting signal is given. All artists are given
20 minutes
the first term at the same time. The artist returns to his group
and draws a representation of the term. Tell the students that
writing words or letters, pointing, or using numbers is forbid-
GET READY
den. When someone in the group thinks he knows the answer,
he should take the second pencil and write his guess on one of
You will need six pieces of paper and two pencils for each
the eight small pieces of paper. Remind the students that they
group of approximately five students. First, determine which
are allowed eight guesses for five terms, so they can only afford
five energy terms to use during the game. For Elementary level
three mistakes. The artist nods to inform whether or not the
students you might choose light bulb, solar, biomass, television
guesser is correct. If not, guessing continues. If the person is
and petroleum. For Middle School students, coal, insulation,
correct, he takes the drawing and slip of paper with the correct
natural gas, wind and thermostat would be good choices. High
term and gives them to the game leader. The leader whispers
School level terms might include propane, nuclear fission
or shows the next term to the student. The student then returns
geothermal, hydropower and photosynthesis. Arrange students
to the group and play continues with that person as the new
in a circle on the floor or around a table.
artist. The person who correctly guesses the term is always the
one who draws next. The leader should move around the room
to avoid being closer to one group than another. The first group
GET SET
to correctly guess all five terms wins. Follow up with a discus-
Divide the students into groups of about five. On five of the six
sion of the energy terms and display various drawings from the
pieces of paper, instruct the students to write the name of their
individual groups.
group in small print on the bottom and number the pages one
ENERGY CHANTS
GET READY
For each student playing the game, make one copy of the
Purpose of Activity:
Energy Chant sheet found on page 17 of this booklet. Then,
depending on the number of small groups you need and the
introduces the ten leading energy sources
Energy Chants
number of students in each group, make the appropriate num-
also divides a
in an entertaining manner. This
activity
ber of copies of the energy symbols, found on page 18. Cut out
large group into ten or fewcr small groups. This activity
the energy symbols and have masking tape ready.
is suited for all ages.
GET SET
Preparation:
Low
Ham, out one Energy Chants sheet to each student and tape an
Time:
30 minutes
energy source to his/her back. Inform the students that they are
not to look at their backs or ask friends what energy sources
they are.
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Wind: Throughout the chant, spin your arms like a windmill.
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Hydro: With your finger tips touching, hold your hands under
Introduce the energy sources to the students. Go through each
your chin and glide your hands down like a waterfall during
source and reinforce one or two of the facts found on the chant
"Falling water." For "hydropower, hydropower" rotate your
sheet. Tell whether the source is renewable or nonrenewable,
hands around each other like a turbine.
and add some of your own information about each source.
Usually, three or four facts are enoughthe students can read
After you have demonstrated each chant, give the students a
the others on their own.
review quiz. Read off one or two easily recognizable facts and
tell them to give you the corresponding chant on the count of
OPTIONAL: You may wish to add visual aids to your presen-
three. This reinforces the information and reviews the chant.
tation. Make posters or overhead projector transparencies that
Do this for all ten chants.
relate to each energy source. You can also use the transparen-
cies from the Transparent Energy activity found in your Local
Next, tell students they have an energy source taped to their
Participation Kit.
backs. Their job is to discover what source it is. Using their
energy chant sheets, they should go around to other students
After you introduce a source, demonstrate its chant. The words
asking yes or no questions, asking each person no more than
are on the top of the chant sheet and you can create your own
one question. Naturally, the first question should be, "Am I
hand motions. If you have problems with the motions, you can
(non)renewable?" Once the student has discovered his or her
contact either the NEED Office or your Regional or State
source, he or she should start to do the energy chant for that
NEED Coordinator. A few examples of hand motions are:
source, in hopes of attracting others who are the same source.
After about two minutes of questions and searching, have
Coal: While chanting, "Working in a coal mine," pretend that
everyone stop. To help the students who may have not yet
you are shoveling coal. At "gruntHard hat!" throw the coal
found their group, give three clues about one group's source
over your shoulder.
and tell that group to do their chant once. Go through this
Natural Gas: After chanting, "Nat'ral gas, gas" snap once with
process with each group, and the large group will be success-
your right hand, once with your left, and follow with "a real
fully divided into smaller groups by energy source.
gas!"
Biomass: Hold your nose while chanting, "Garbage, garbage"
and during "Biomass!" shake your hands near your shoulders.
THIS WEEK IN ENERGY CONSERVATION
GET SET
Purpose of Activity:
Review with the students the structure of an actual news
program. Explain the role of an anchorperson in providing the
is fashioned after a
This Week in Energy Conservation
background information or "lead" to a news story. Ask the
weekly television show with student-correspondents re-
students to recall the various ways they have seen news stories
porting on a variety of energy conservation topics. This
in-studio, on-site, through interviews,
covered in the past
(i.e.,
activity will introduce students to ways of saving energy
or taped recordings). This will help them understand what they
both in the home and on the road.
will be asked to do during the "This Week in Energy Conser-
vation" show. Divide the class
six groups, and distribute
into
Preparation:
Low
a news lead to each group.
Time: 45
minutes
GO
Explain to the students that each group is now a team of energy
reporters. They should read the introduction to their segment
of "This Week in Energy Conservation," making note of the
GET READY
energy facts listed below each lead. Their job will be to develop
a story that follows the guidelines of the anchorperson's intro-
Prior to class, make copies of the six lead stories (found on
duction and includes six of the energy facts listed on their sheet
pages 19 and 20) that you will be distributing among the
of paper. Each story should be limited to two or three minutes
student groups. You may also want to gather the supplies
and the groups will he allowed 20 minutes to develop and
students may use in constructing props to accompany their
rehearse their story.
energy stories.
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incentive to do a thorough job conveying their facts and
After each story is presented, the other groups will have one
information to the audience. The team with the highest score
Minute to try to list six energy tips from the presentation they
after all the presentations is the winner. Either you or a student
just heard. Next, the presenting group reveals their tips. Each
from each group can serve as the anchorperson, providing the
group grades themselves using the honor system, getting one
show's introduction and the lead-in to each news story.
point for every tip they remembered correctly. Tally the scores
of all the groups watching the presentation, and award this
amount to the presenting group. This gives the presenters an
ENERGY BINGO
gives what you believe is a correct response, write the person's
name in the corresponding box on the lower part of the page.
For example, if you ask a person question "D" and he or she
Purpose of ActMty
gives you what you think is a correct response, then go ahead
and write the person's name and school/class/state in box D.
is a great ice-breaker for a NEED workshop
Energy Bingo
A correct response is important because later on, if you get
or conference since each person playing the game will
Bingo, that person will be asked to answer the question cor-
activity, it
meet at least 16 other people. As a classroom
rectly in front of the group. If he or she can't answer the
also makes a great introduction to an energy
unit.
question correctly, then you lost Bingo. So, if someone gives
you an incorrect answer, ask someone else! Don't use your
Preparation: Low
name for one of the boxes or use the same person's name twice.
Time: 45 minutes
Try to fill all 16 boxes in the next 20 minutes. This will increase
your chances of winning. After the 20 minutes are up, please
sit down and I will begin asking players to stand up and give
their names. Are there any questions? You'll now have 20
minutes. Go!
GET READY
During the next 20 minutes, move around the room to assist
Duplicate as many Energy Bingo sheets (found on page 21) as
the players. (You can also be placed on a person's Bingo card
needed for each person in your group. In addition, decide now
if you wish. However, if you do this, make sure you call on
if you want to give the winner of your game a prize and what
yourself later to give your name.) Every five minutes or so tell
the prize will be. (NOTE: each box on the Energy Bingo sheet
the players how many minutes are remaining in the game. Give
has two blank lines. One line is for a player's name and the
the players a warning when just a minute or two remains. When
other is for his or her class, school, or state. Decide what you
the 20 minutes are up, stop the players and ask them to be
want the players of your game to write in the second line.)
seated. Then give them the following instructions.
When 1 point to you, please stand up and in a LOUD and
GET SET
CLEAR voice give us your name and tell us where you are from.
Now, if anyone has the name of the person I call on, put a big
Pass out one Energy Bingo sheet to each member of the group.
"X" in the box with that person's name. When you get four
names in a rowacross, down, or diagonallyshout "Energy
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Bingo!" Then I'll ask you to come up front to verify your
results.
Give the group the following instructions for how to play the
game:
Let's start off with you (point to a player in the group). Please
stand and give us your name and tell us where you're from.
Energy Bingo is very similar to regular Bingo. However, there
(Player gives name and place. Let's say the player's name was
are a few things you'll need to know to play this game. First,
"Joe.") Okay, players, if any of you have Joe's name in one of
please take a minute to look at your Energy Bingo sheet and
your boxes, go ahead and put an "X" through that box.
read the 16 questions at the top of the page. Shortly, you'll be
(NOTE: You may have to repeat a player's name if others can
going around the room trying to get 16 people to answer these
not hear. Also, be sure to point to players in all areas of the
questions so you can write their names in one of the 16 boxes.
room and not just in one section.)
When 1 give you the signal, you'll get up and ask a person one
When the first player shouts "Energy Bingo," ask him (or her)
of the questions at the top of your Bingo sheet. If the person
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In case of a tie, ask the bingo winners to come to the front one
to come to the front of the room. Ask him to give his name and
at a time to verify their results. If time permits, you may wish
tell the group where he s from. Then ask him to tell the group
to continue the game for second or third place winners. You
how his bingo run was made, i.e., across from A to D, down
may want to change some of the questions to fit you group.
from C to 0, and so on.
Below are eight extra questions you can use instead.
Now you need to verify the bingo winner's results. Ask the
bingo winner to call out the first person's name on his bingo
Knows what energy source C3H8 is.
run. That player then stands and the bingo winner asks him the
Knows what gasohol is made of.
question which he previously answered during the 20-minute
Knows which state produces the most oil.
session. For example, if the question was "can name two
renewable sources of energy," the player must now name two
Knows which state produces the most coal.
sources. If he can answer the question correctly, the bingo
Can name two products made from petroleum.
winner calls out the next person's name on his bingo run.
Knows which energy source generates the most electricity.
However, if he does not answer the question correctly, the
bingo winner does not have bingo after all and must sit down
Knows th -.,:hemicat name for natural gas.
with the rest of the players. You should continue to point to
Kr ..ws which uranium isotope is fissionable.
players until another person yells "Energy Bingo."
ENERGY ROUNDUP
posters and the fact sheets on the lower half of the posters. Do
not secure ihe bottom edge of the number sheets to the poster;
the number sheets will be used as flaps.
Purpose of ActMty
Next, write tbe names of the energy sources on the posters.
Write the namos beneath the number sheet flaps. Now you
is a good activity to introduce an energy
Energy Roundup
should lightly secure the bottom edge of the number sheets
unit or to reinforce students' knowledge of the nation's
leading sources of energy. Energy Round-up divides a
(with a tack or Scotch tape, for example) to the posters.
group of teachers or students into ten or fewer groups.
Once you have finished making the posters, mount the posters
around the walls of the room. Space the posters as equally apart
Preparation: Moderate
as possible and set up chairs for each station. Also, put a piece
of paper and a pencil by each poster station. The players will
lime: 10 - 50 minutes
use these toward ihe end of the game.
GET SET
Assign players to groups by writing the names of the ten energy
sources on slips of paperlet thc players draw these out of a
GET READY
hat. You will need to make enough slips for each personan
equal number of slips for each energy source. (You can assign
Make ten energy posters, each approximately one foot square.
players to less than ten groups by eliminating one or more
The first step in making the posters is to write down six energy
energy sources from the hat. Even if you have fewer groups,
facts for each energy source. These energy facts can be found
keep all ten posters on the walls.) Instruct the players NOT to
on the Energy Chants sheet located on page 17. Write the facts
tell anyone which group they've picked; that would only hurt
on pieces of white paper. Do the lettering neatly, using letters
their chances of winning.
that are about one-half inch in height. Do NOT write the names
of the energy sources on these white sheets of paper. Next, take
ten smaller pieces of paper and write the numbers one through
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ten on them.
Give the players these instructions for playing the game:
number sheet on each
Mount one white fact sheet and cm,
poster board, using black poster boa. d for the nonrenewable
You hate all been assigned to one of ten energy source groups.
energy sources and yellow poster board for
Shortly, you'll be getting into these groups. First, though,
renewable
the
energy sources. Mount the number sheets near the top of the
follow My instructions.
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You cannot speak or communicate with anyone during the first
Please close the flap. If you're in the correct group, remain
eight- to ten-minute phase of the game.
seated. If you're not, stand up and look for your energy source
again. This time you have only one minute. Go!
Decide if the energy source you selected from the hat is a
renewable or nonrenewable source of energy. The ten posters
(Round two lasts one minute. You can continue rounds until
everyone has found his or her energy source. Subsequent
on the walls around the room have been color-coded to help
you find your energy source. The yellow posters represent
rounds last one minute each.)
renewable energy so 'revs; the black posters represent nonre-
After all the rounds are finished, give the groups these instruc-
newable sources. If you don't know if your energy source is
tions.
renewable or nonrenewable, then it may take you a little longer
to find your group.
You will be allowed to talk during this part of the game. The
members of your group must now decide which three of the six
When 1 say go, walk to the closest poster and read the six clues
clues reveal the least about your energy source. Eliminate the
that describe the energy source. If you think these clues de-
three clues that reveal the most. I'll give you two minutes to do
scribe your energy source, simply sit down in one of the chairs
this, and then I'll ask three people in your group to stand up
(or bring over a chair). If the clues don't describe your energy
one at a time and read a clue After the third clue has been
source, move on to another poster. Repeat the process until you
read, everyone in your group will say in unison, "Who are
think you've found your energy source.
we?"
You'll now have three minutes to find your energy source.
Now, one person in your group should take the pencil and
Remember, no ralking or communicating is allowed. Does
paper at your station and write the numbers one through ten
anybody have any questions? Ready? Go!
down the side of the paper. After a groups says "Who are we?"
(The first rounü lasts three minutes.)
the other groups will have 15 seconds to write down the name
of the energy source. Since every source has a number, just
Your three minutes are up and everyone must he seated.
write the group's name by the corresponding number on your
Remember, remain silent. Now, will the person closest to each
piece qf paper.
poster lift the flap of the poster so that the people in your group
can see which energy source the clues describe.
The group that identifies the most energy groups wins. Spelling
counts!
(Players lift flaps to reveal energy sources.)
ELECTRIC CONNECTIONS
GET SET
Purpose of Activity
Divide the students into groups of three to five. Give each
student a copy of the Game Instructions sheet. Review the
Electric Connections teaches students how different en-
game instructions with the students.
ergy sources contribute to the generation of electricity.
This activity demonstrates the advantages of working
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together in a group and reinforces the ideas of group
sharing and cooperative learning.
Have the students individually rank the ten sources of energy
in order of their contribution to the U.S. electricity demand
Preparation:
Low
give them two minutes to complete this task. As a group,
give the students six minutes to rank the ten sources of energy.
Time:
30 minutes
When they are finished, give each student a copy of the Power
Generation Source sheet.
OPTION: Before making copies of the Power Generation
GET READY
Source sheet, you may wish to white out the numbers under
the "Ranks" column. Have the students fill in their own rank-
Make an appropriate number of copies of the Electric Connec-
ings by checking to see how many million kilowatt-hours of
tions Game Instructions sheet and the U.S. Electric Power
electric power generation each source produces.
Generation Sourccs sheet found on pages 22 and 23.
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ENERGY MATCH GAME
would show me his answer while telling the class what his
Purpose of Activity
answer is. Say, for example, he had written SOLAR. The next
person on the team would then show me his answer. If the
reviews and reinforces students'
second person had written SOLAR, then team one would have
Energy Match Game
knowledge about energy. The activity can take as little as
a match and it would receive five points. If the second person
ten minutes or as much as an entire class period. It is
had written WIND, then there would be no match. The third
suitable for all ages.
person on the team would then show me his answer. lithe third
person's answer matched either the first or second person's
answer, then team one would receive five points. The fourth
Preparation:
Low
person on the team would then show me his answer. If the
fourth person's answer matched either the first, second, or
lime: 30
minutes
third person's answer, then team one would receive five points.
We would continue in this fashion until all members of team
one had revealed their answers. Then, we would repeat this
process for the remainder of the teams. Are there any ques-
GET READY
tions?
Select eght Jthe energy match questions listed below, accord-
MATCH GAME QUESTIONS
ing to the grade level of the students playing the game. The
two most difficult questions of the eight will serve as the final
Name an energy source, other than coal, that is used to
Energy Match Game questions and will be awarded a double
generate electricity.
point value. For each student, take two sheets of 8 1/2" x 11"
paper and cut them in half.
Name a nonrenewable source of energy.
Name a way to save energy in your car by proper driving
GET SET
habits.
Name a way to save energy in your car by proper mainte-
Put students into four to six rows so that students cannot see
nance.
what their fellow team members are writing. You need a
minimum of four Students per team. Prepare a score board to
Name a major energy consuming device in your home.
keep point values for each team. Give each student four sheets
Name a country from which the U.S. imports petroleum.
of paper. Explain to the students that they will have to write on
both sides of each sheet of paper in order to have enough paper
Name a product, other than gasoline, made from petroleum.
for all eight rounds.
Name a chemical characteristic of propane.
Name a unit used to measure electrical power.
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Name a source of energy tha, does not produce air pollution
Give the students the following instructions for how to play the
when used.
game:
Name an abundant source of energy that is used in the
During the past few weeks, you have all learned a lot about
United States.
energy. The Energy Match Game will revicw and reinforce
Other than the United States, name a country that uses a lot
what you have learned. There will be eight rounds in the game.
of energy.
The final two rounds will have a double point value.
Name a major petroleum producing state in the U.S.
To begin r round, I will read a statement and you will have to
Name a major coal producing state in the U.S.
write yot. ..nswer in large letters on one of the pieces of paper
I have given you. You may not look at the responses that any
Name an energy consuming device you could not live
of your team members are writing down. If you do, your team
without.
will be penalized 25 points and will be eliminated from that
Name your favorite source of energy.
round. You will have 15 seconds to write your answer and then
Name the first energy source used by people.
you must put your pen or pencil down. Every match will be
worth five points for the first six rounds.
Name the leading provider of U.S. energy in the year 2020.
Let me give you an example of how the game is played and
Name the leading transportation energy source in the year
scored. The sample question is "Name a renewable source of
2020.
energy." You would have I.5 seconds to write your answer on
Name a way of saving energy for home heating.
one of the sheets of paper, and then everyone would put their
pens and pencils down. Next, the first person on team one
Name a famous energy-related American, alive or dead.
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