Great games using mini whiteboards.
You may be wondering how a simple whiteboard in a world full of technology can be a valuable tool for educating children. Whether you have loads of technological instruments in your school or not, many fun activities can be done while using a whiteboard.
So, grab your whiteboard markers and dry-erase boards, and get ready to start having fun with these fantastic activities listed below!
1. Spelling
Spelling tests will never be something of the past, so why not try to make it fun by reading words aloud so that each student can give their best to try to spell out the given words? You could vary this activity by getting teams of students to read out different spellings to each other. Alternatively, get each student to hold up their spellings after each word so that you and the other learners can see what everyone else has written. Students find this fun and motivating since it gives them the confidence to see that everyone can make mistakes.
2. Write a line and pass it on
Sharing is caring! Because students can share their mini whiteboards, they serve as great tools for collaborative writing. You can start an exercise by giving students the first line of a description, report, letter, or something else and have them finish the line. They then pass their mini whiteboard to the left, and the next student writes a line. Keep going until the text is finished. Texts can be simple sentences for lower-level learners or complex academic paragraphs for higher-level learners to help them with essay writing.
3. Hangman
Hagman, the most familiar game in the history of teaching! If you aren't familiar with this popular game, don’t fret. It’s an easy game to play. Playing hangman certainly keeps you guessing, since you would need a specific word to fill in the boxes given. Every time a person guesses wrong, a part of the stick figure is added to the rope. Once the stick figure is a completed shape, the student has lost the game. You can use the mini-whiteboards to get students to play the game with each other rather than play it as a class. This game will allow them to practice common English words.
4. Picture dictation
Let creativity fly with this fun activity. If your students are creative, they could make something up to draw, such as the layout of their perfect house, a map of their dream island or the best school, a scary monster, or a crazy invention. A variant of this fun activity is for you to give a detailed description of something, and all the students must draw what you describe. Drawing is loads of fun for most students, so it could help you study a student's perspective on a subject or category.
5. Voting
Using whiteboards for voting is motivating for both you and your students. By voting on whiteboards, you include all students, and give them a chance to answer a question in their way. For example, if you have a multiple-choice set of questions, ask students to respond by using the whiteboards. You can then ask the learners a question and give them 10 seconds to think and write A, B or C on their whiteboard, then tell them to show their answers together. Now you can see what they think and you can ask questions yourself such as “Why did you write A?” There are lots of variants on this game and it adds a bit more variety and fun to everyday classroom activities.
