Each day my homebase (or homeroom) has activity block. Activity block is from 11:05-12:55, which is almost 2 hours (yes, you read right). During this time, we have Channel One news, our student TV show, lunch (there's one hour), plus time for advisor/advisee activities and everyone's favorite, study hall/silent reading.
I came across this game the other day, and found it was too good to keep to myself. As a 7th grade teacher, if the kids ask to play the game again, it must be a winner!
Fishbowl:
1. Give each student 3 cards/slips of paper and instruct them to write 1 word on each paper. You can modify this for whatever you wish. My suggestion is that you use nouns as they are the easiest to describe. They should not use proper names!
2. Once they write down their 3 words - they can fold the papers and put them into a basket/container/fishbowl.
Now that you have words, you have options:
Catch Phrase - Object is to describe the word, but not say it. Set a timer for a minute. One person chooses the card and describes the word without saying it so his/her team can guess. Example, "Kentucky Fried..." "Chicken." After a minute, change teams and award 1 point per correctly identified word.
Guesstures - Object is to describe/act out the word, but not say it. In the game, the "actor" chooses 4 words to act out. That person has 1 minute to act out and/or describe all 4 words. In the game, the words disappear without warning. To add this element in, you could have a student or teacher remove 1 word every 15 seconds.
My homebase of 20 had a lot of fun with this activity! It was the perfect 25 minute activity before Channel One news. Best of all, they've asked to play it another day.
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