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Reviving Reviews:
Refreshing Ideas
Students Can't Resist

Is review time a deadly bore for you and your students? Add a little fun to review time and you might be surprised. Games will spice up reviews, revive interest, and ensure retention! Included: Five activities for use in all subjects, all grades.

Stop the yawns. Put an end to indifference. Revive those often-deadly skill reviews with a game or two!

This week Education World offers five lessons (and a sidebar of hundreds of additional ideas) to spice up boring reviews and tedious skill practice sessions.

Looking for a place to start? Kids love games shows. And they love PowerPoint too! Why not combine the two and create PowerPoint games that are sure to engage your students? If your students are older and have a little technical know-how, consider having them create PowerPoint games that younger students in the school can actually use! Here are a few templates to get you going. Reminder: Some of these templates might take as much as 30 or more seconds to load.