Whiteboards are now widely used for a variety of reasons. They are portable and add many more visual options to any presentation than a chalkboard. But, did you know there are many games to play on a whiteboard? Here are suggestions that allow a whiteboard to become fun as well as entertaining.
Classroom Games
* HOT SEAT – Place a chair in front of but facing away from the whiteboard and ask a student to come up and sit in the “hot seat”. Write a word on the board that describes a movie, book, animal, place, or object. Clues are given to the person in the hot seat, so they can guess the word written on the board.
* HANGMAN – Divide the group into two teams. The teacher selects a word with the same number of letters for each team. She then draws a horizontal line in a row on the whiteboard for each letter in the word. The teams rotate calling out a letter for their word. If the letter is in the word, it is placed in the proper blank. If not, the teacher starts drawing a hangman. The team that fills in the blanks and …