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[Betty Rubble]

Has anyone ever played this game in a large class? I want to try playing it with my middle school classes as a fun "after-finals" activity and I was wondering if anyone else has found a successful way to do so. I am imagining the class dissolving into chaos and no one participating.

My idea is to write a grid on the chalkboard for all the letters and have the students work in teams to find words within the grid. There are forty students in my classes so would groups of four work best? I figure about ten minutes per round would work. Any more suggestions?

Thanks!

[Fishead soup]

By boggle I assume you mean wordfind. Why not just get the word find copied onto that cheap brown paper and let them do it alone or in pairs.
It will be much easier to do it this way.

[MarionG]

I've done Boggle on the blackboard, it works very well. Your other poster mentioned wordfind...but to me that's a large matrix of letters from which you find words such as "thunger" "lightning" "snowy" after doing a unit on weather...not at all like Boggle, which requires creativity and a good eye.

[some waygug-in]

A friend of mine told me how he does this. He first writes it out on the board, divides the class in teams and then they take turns finding words.
Each player must get a turn, and only 1 person can come up at a time.
The seated players can try to help, but they can't come up.
Each team gets 1 minute to find a word. If they don't, it's the next team's turn.

1 point for each correct word.

When this is finished, he erases the board, then hands out the same thing as a wordsearch.

I guess it's up to you how you want to do it, but it seems to work well for him. I haven't tried it yet.

Cheers

[Col.Brandon]

I have a camera linked to a big-screen TV in my classroom and I just put the boggle game under the camera, and the kids write down their words in a notebook or on a piece of paper. It's pretty popular with the smart kids, but the dumb kids hardly come up with anything. Maybe it'd be a good idea to arrange the teams so there's a mixed range of abilities.

[mrsquirrel]

There is a nice Hasbro version available for DL if you search for it

[Bondrock]

Betty Rubble?

Hey, how's about some rocks on rocks?








PS leave Barney boy home.

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in the past i played BOGGLE using one of those big-eye (real time) projectors. (as mentioned) Writing on the white board also works. Allow students to use dictionaries if they are low-level.

[Betty Rubble]