Interactive Games for Seventh Grade
- Give students a break from the books with an interactive game.education image by Anatoly Tiplyashin from Fotolia.com
Interactive games have the ability to engage students, as they require active participation and often present them with lively colors and fun animations. As a regular or special education teacher, you can find interactive games to help you teach and review concepts for all of the core curriculum subjects in a seventh-grade classroom. - A flip-chart game from Promethean Planet, Language Arts Connect Four was originally designed for use with special education students in the seventh grade. Two students can play the game against each other, or the class can be divided into two teams. Students choose a question and place their tile on the grid if they answer correctly. The first team to connect four of its tiles in a row on the grid wins the game.
- Tie into the theme of Greek history and the Olympics while testing the English language skills of seventh graders with Scholastic's game It's Greek to Me. Students enter their name and choose the country they want to represent at the Olympics. They then must choose between two difficulty levels, either archery or discus. The game itself is a series of 10 multiple-choice questions in which the student is presented with a Greek root and a word containing that root. They must then select the correct definition of the word from among the three choices provided. Once they complete all of the questions, they will earn either a bronze, silver or a gold medal based on the number of questions they answered correctly. They will then have the option to print their medal out, start the game over or play another round.
- Using a flip-chart template from the games resource pack at Promethean Planet, in the Geometry Baseball Game students work in pairs to solve geometry problems in which they must calculate perimeter, area, diameter and circumference. Correct answers earn the students a play in the game, such as a home run or a single, while an incorrect answer earns strikes, eventually leading to outs. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.
- Science Labeling is an interactive game for seventh graders that is a part of Scholastic's Maggie's Earth Adventures. The game challenges the student to label scientific diagrams in a short amount of time, with a brief period to study the diagram before the game begins. The student chooses among topic areas that include layers of the earth, structure of a flower, anatomy of a fish, respiratory system and layers of the atmosphere.
- Seventh graders can brush up on their historical time periods in the interactive Scholastic game Dinosaur Times. To play the game, the student must decide in which time period 18 different dinosaurs belong. Students place dinosaurs in either the Triassic Period, Jurassic Period or Cretaceous Period. They check the answers and try again if they have any errors, rearranging them until all of the dinosaurs are placed in their time period.
- To celebrate Hispanic heritage, seventh-grade students can play the Piñata Concentration Game from Scholastic, either on the computer or as a class activity as it is interactive whiteboard ready. Students are presented with eight cards, facedown, from which they must uncover matching sets, four in all. When they choose a card, it will reveal an object as well as the name of the object written in Spanish. The students will attempt to match all of the pairs of cards for three rounds. After they have won the third round, a pinata will burst, releasing candy to signal that they have won the game.
