Know Your Activities – Create Bingo Cards for Know Your Bingo

I recently wrote an article about the importance of teachers using know your activities to reduce classroom management problems and improve academic performance. In that article I shared one of my favorites. know your activities I call the “Interview and Introduction”. In this activity, students answer a series of questions about themselves on an index card, then the teacher rearranges those cards and then has students walk around the room “interviewing” each other until they find the person whose card they have. Students then “introduce” each other.

One of the great things about this activity is that the teacher can collect the cards and use the information on those cards for follow-up. know your activities.

In this article I would like to share with you one of those follow-up know your activities. I call…bingo to meet you.

It’s easy and fun…

First, I take the index cards I collected from the “Interview and Introduction” activity and use the information on them to create bingo cards. I just go through each card and place one thing about each student in each bingo box. Each student then gets their own bingo sheet and walks around the room trying to find which of their classmates matches which bingo box. When students find a match, they have their classmate sign that particular box. Five signatures in a row wins Bingo!

Of course, it is much easier to create bingo cards if you have some kind of bingo card creation software. However, even if you don’t own any software to create bingo cards, the time it takes is well worth it! Students are up and moving around the classroom and having a lot of fun, but more importantly, students form and develop their relationships with each other and this will have a huge impact on both classroom management and performance. academically throughout the school year.