Lesson Idea: Introduction to Psychology JEOPARDY

The content of this jeopardy is based on Chapter One of “IB Psychology: A Student’s Guide”

At the end of a unit or after a few topics where there’s lots of content to review, I LOVE making a Jeopardy game for students to play in small groups. In my experience jeopardylabs has the easiest and most effective software to use.

Here’s my Introduction to Psychology jeopardy that I will give students about 15 to 20 minutes to play at the end of our introductory lesson, on the lesson before their test. I used to play host while doing this as a whole class, but I found there was too little engagement for too many students. I now have them in carefully assigned pairs or threes. This means that they are more engaged as they have an opportunity to answer more questions.

I’ll also be making a kahoot, which I’ll also post on our facebook group.

A good fast finisher task on this is to get them to play again, this time with the goal of getting 100% correct. If the questions are written effectively (which I hope mine are) this can also be a fun self-study activity.

I don’t like the jeopardy format where they give the answers and students come up with questions, so I just write it the opposite (answers in the question space and vice-versa) so students see the questions and then they get the answers.

Important note for teachers:  after you click on the link to my jeopardy you will see an “Edit” button. You will see that you have an option to make a “clone” of this jeopardy. This will allow you to make your own version of mine so you can adjust my questions and answers.

This is a great feature as you can tweak without re-inventing the wheel.

You will probably want to change my “General” for 500 points question, as it’s “What’s the name of Mr Dixon’s son?” 

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I’m always trying to improve my resources, so if you see any mistakes in my jeopardy please let me know. And/or if you make an improved version, please feel free to leave a link in the comments.