Multiple choice games help build decision-making skills.
Multiple choice games help to build decision-making skills. The student looking at the choices has to decide which is the best answer. Making a game of it and allowing students the opportunity to practice this skill will aid them in life as they have to take multiple choice tests. Sometimes the choices in a multiple choice test are very confusing; a student needs the ability to sort out the best answer. Practicing this skill in a game format is a great exercise to hone this skill.
Multiple Choice Text Games
You can get students' creative juices flowing by creating a setting and character development for a story. Using a narrative voice to create the setting, introduce characters and put them in a situation where the student has multiple choices to continue the story. This type of multiple choice game gives the student some control over the storyline as they make their own decisions along the way. Choice of Games (choiceofgames.com) has a selection of stories where the student directs the storyline by choosing an answer from a multiple choice format.
Team Games
You can play a multiple choice game in your classroom by simply creating a choice of questions around a lesson that you have given the students. Rather than having them taking the multiple choice quiz on paper, make a game of it by choosing a host who will ask the questions to the students. Have the questions on an overhead projector so the students can read the choices. Break students up into four teams. The host asks the questions and the teams strive to be the first to agree and answer the question correctly. Each time a team answers first, and correctly, it gets points. If a team answers incorrectly, it loses a point. You can purchase buzzers for the teams to hit, or you can simply have the team stand when they are ready to answer the question. The host keeps track of the teams and their points on the board. You can take any lesson plan from any subject to play this multiple choice game.
The Hunt for the Right Answer
This is an interactive way to reinforce a lesson such as geometrical shapes for elementary students. Pass out a list of questions to each student. Have a table that is identified for each of the choices, for example if you have A, B, C, D and E as a choice, you will need five tables. Each table will have a piece of paper with the correct answer to a particular question. For example, if the question reads "What is another name for the diamond shape?" the correct answer is b: rhombus. Students go to table B to pick up the piece of paper that says rhombus on it. If they choose the wrong answer, the table will not have the word for them to pick up. This will force students to rethink the question, or simply make another choice. The first student to pick up all the answers wins.
Capitals Online Multiple Choice Game
Students love spending time on a computer. Even a group of students sitting around one computer helping another student play an educational game is rewarding for the students and reinforces concepts they have learned. Learning the names of state capitals has always been a memory game. Funschool (funschool.kaboose.com) has a free online version of a multiple choice game that helps students to memorize the capitals. Numerous other free educational games online feature multiple choice format.
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