If you haven't tried out the app GooseChase, I highly recommend this free app. be sure to sign up for your educator account here, so you can play with up to 5 teams for free. While there are a few limitations, like number of teams and games that can be played at the same time, the limitations are few and the basics you would need for your classroom are easily met. We have now played a GooseChase with faculty, students in Biology, Chemistry, English, and math classes. Goosechase in EnglishOur most recent GooseChase has been with our freshmen English classes. Before they read, The Monkey King, they wanted to introduce the kids to different parts of a graphic novel. Typically this is done through a PowerPoint where they show examples of items like, thought balloons, speech bubbles, the gutter, setting panels, image panels, etc. So instead, we made each of those parts into a separate mission. The mission had the definition of what the kids needed to find, then the kids looked through an assortment of graphic novels to find what they were looking for. When they found it, they took a picture and uploaded it. The last few missions had the kids create their own versions of some of the items. Here is a link to the GooseChase if you would like to use it: https://gsch.se/game/81cbb7f17c314052b4e261a05bbeaea0/share/ Below are pictures of submissions and examples of the missions. Goosechase in scienceBeing the former biology teacher that I am, I tend to be the most creative in science classes. We have had 1 GooseChases in biology so far this year and 1 planned for STAAR Review. The first one was over Cell Transport. It had a mixture of easy to difficult missions. Here are some examples below. I love how GooseChase allows for different types of learning to occur...they can act out, draw, do puzzles, write, read, ex. We also did one for our chemistry class when studying types of matter. Most of the students had a pretty good handle on types of matter already, so delivering content in this way made sense. Staff DevelopmentOf course the students can't be the only ones that have fun! We used GooseChase with our faculty on our first day back this year. Here is the game if you would like it: https://gsch.se/game/5879a7290f17425aaa505118d22c5f59/share/ And of course a YouTube link with all the fun that we had!
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