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Make Your Own Jeopardy Board

March 16, 2012 by Katie Filed Under: Games, Therapy Ideas and Activities 7 Comments

Several years ago when I was working in a middle school (4th-8th graders) I found myself B O R E D in my therapy sessions. If I was bored, I am SURE my students were too, so I started getting more creative in my sessions. In addition, I was needing activities that would target MANY DIFFERENT goals at once! Antonyms! Synonyms! Grammar! Following directions! Social skills!

And then it hit me. Jeopardy!

 

In Jeopardy, there are many different categories of questions, which was essentially what I was looking for. So I made myself a Jeopardy board and let me tell you, my students LOVE IT!! What I do, is develop categories of questions based on my student’s goals. For example, I had some kids working on parts of speech, categories, and social/pragmatic skills. So I made up 5 questions under different categories and typed them up. I also included a topic of interest for one of my students with Asperger’s syndrome (spiders) to help motivate the child to participate. It worked!! She was THRILLED to see that as a topic!

I made mine in WORD and then printed it out, laminated and used velcro to attach the numbers. I know there are now many similar games made for Power Point these days as well. Have fun!

Cheers!

About Katie

Katie is a licensed, credentialed and certified pediatric speech-language pathologist and mom to four (8, 6, 3 and 6 months). Her passion for educating, inspiring and empowering parents of children with all abilities led her to start her blog playing with words 365 where she shares information about speech & language development & intervention strategies, parenting, photography and a little about her family life too. Katie has been working in the field of speech pathology for 12 years and is certified in The Hanen Centre’s It Takes Two to Talk ® and Target Word ® programs and holds a certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). In addition to blogging and being a mommy, Katie works part time in her small private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can follow her on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.

Comments

  1. kristy @ HearMyHands says

    March 18, 2012 at 7:50 am

    Awesome! I made my own Jeopardy on the computer (if you want a neat PPT version, email me! it’s really neat!)

    But the other one I use is on a big poster with 3x5s so this is much more flashy! 🙂

    Kristy

    Reply
    • Katie says

      March 18, 2012 at 8:40 pm

      Thanks! I know you could make one on PPT but when I made this (5 years ago?) I never used the computer in sessions! I may need to get yours!

      Reply
    • CC says

      March 23, 2012 at 10:02 am

      I’ve used the powerpoint version as well. It is AWESOME (well, except that I can’t figure out how to label each category…). 🙂 🙂

      Reply
  2. Dean says

    March 19, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    You can also make Jeopardy games on Quia (www.quia.com) to use on your computers. Just sharing ideas with you.

    Reply
    • Katie says

      March 19, 2012 at 1:23 pm

      Ah yes I have heard of Quia. If I used my computer in therapy more it would be a great idea! Thanks for sharing!

      Reply
  3. Bianca says

    November 1, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    Hi !

    I love your website and your ideas! I would love to use the game with a 7yr old I am currently working with. Could you send me some of the questions you used with your kids?

    Thanks!

    Bianca Jonas, MS.Ed
    Behavior Therapist

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    • Katie says

      November 1, 2012 at 3:51 pm

      Hi Bianca, I love using this game 🙂 As far as questions, you need to cater them to your students’ needs. I have categories based on their IEP goals so the questions vary from student to student and group to group. hope that helps 🙂

      Reply

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