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State Game

Posted By: Kim Johanson on January 19 2009 5:22 PM| Views: 1505
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We use this as a fun closing activity as we are waiting for teachers to pick up their kids. One teacher will need to go out into the hallway with a couple of student volunteers to witness that nothing can be heard from inside of the classroom. Once the teacher is gone the students inside of the classroom will choose a state. Once the state is selected the teacher will return to the classroom and try to guess the correct state. The teacher that stayed inside of the classroom will start naming states. The solution to this activity is to guess the state that follows a state starting with a vowel. So if I said Alabama, the teacher would know the next state is the correct one to choose. Sometimes the kids think we always pick a certain number so if they think that we will also let them choose the number the state is guessed on. The kids really enjoy this activity and have not ever figured it out.

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Jay Gustafson wrote: on Jan 20, 2009 03:31 PM
One more thing.... If the kids want you to guess it on the 1st try the teacher say's that "This one is going to be REALLY tough"... That cue informes the guessing teacher that State #1 is the state the students picked. I haven't played this game in years....but i will today. Thanks!
Kim Johanson wrote: on Jan 20, 2009 05:03 PM
Good tip!! Thanks,Jay.
KyleIL wrote: on Jan 21, 2009 12:15 AM
Once in a while I have classroom gym and we do "Black Magic." Same concept but the students select an object in the room! The solution is that we say something black before the object, for example is it the black tv, no, but it's the next object mentioned!
Kim Johanson wrote: on Jan 21, 2009 03:59 PM
That sounds fun also. Thanks!!
Barb Selvey wrote: on Nov 24, 2009 09:32 PM
I have always played it as Kyle Lindblom suggested above, "Black Magic", so we pick an object in the gym and the teacher knows the chosen object is the object right after the black colored object - spooky! But great cross-curricular with the state names!I will try that!!!

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