Blooket - gamify your study experience!

 Yet another entry coming to you now with another great ICT resource to help your students learn! Here, I present to you Blooket: a simple gamified resource where you can make question sets and then choose from a variety of game modalities to play your set. Before we delve into it, I have to say just one disclaimer: while you *can* use Blooket on the interactive whiteboard with the whole class, it's much more ideal if each student has their own device. I know this is asking a lot, most schools do not have such privilege, so in my case, I make question sets and then use the function assign as homework so the class has a personalized link and each child plays at home if they want to. That being said, let's check it out!

This is what the question-making screen looks like:

If you use Quizlet, you can import your pre-made question sets and not have to do the whole creation process over again! In my case, I don't use Quizlet so I do create my sets from scratch. But once you have a set made, it's yours forever! You can choose multiple choice for the answers (2, 3 or 4 options to pick from) OR EVEN "write in", where the students have to type the answers! I love doing this in 3rd grade and up because it ensures that they're not just randomly clicking and getting lucky, they have to really know the answer AND ALSO how to spell it and use the correct punctuation. 

Once you have a set made, you can choose to play solo or assign it as homework. If you assign as homework, you can set the duration that the game will be "alive" for and it will generate a link that you can pass along to your students. Then (even in the free version!) there's a small report that it generates for you, the teacher, so you can see who is playing and how they've been doing: which questions they've gotten right and which they haven't. 

Let's do a practice with the Café game mode:

The idea of the game is to serve customers food in your café. But to get the food, you need to hit "restock food" at the bottom. This will prompt you to answer a question. If you answer correctly, you get food to give to your customers. You need to keep up and continue answering to get more food or else your customers will leave hungry!

A typical question comes up like this:

And when students get it right or wrong, there is instant feedback:

There are many different game modes to choose from, the Café is just one of them! I have used this resource from 2nd grade up through Secondary and most students really enjoy it!

Here's the link for this particular question set! Let me know what you think! 

Blooket for Unit 2: Bedroom