I'm trying to get some Ideas for games at a High School class reuion. Need some help.?
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A cute one is always hanging up baby pictures of the alumni and having everyone guess who is who.  You can number the pictures and have a sheet to pass around to those who want to play.\n\nYou could also get a description of the family lives, jobs, where they live, etc at this point in their life.  And then like the picture game, try to see if people can guess who ended up where :)
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I would include a few "social games" where people can interact and talk. (This usually leads to laughter and in turn fun).\n \nTry these website.
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Well I recomend Tornadoes. They made a great project for me ^^ U can actually MAKE a tornado in ur classroom WIHTOUT that dinky water bottle trick! It was a great project. Another good one is Mice and shape rocognition. U put together a maze with portals in the shape of triangles, circles and squares, and see if u can train the mice to recognize that the triangles will always lead to the food instead of what they naturally assume(circles) E-mail me for further details on the Tornado Project which I HIGHLY recomned! happiest_phantom@yahoo.com
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scavenger hunt\n3 legged race\nbalance a egg on a spoon and run with it for a set distance\nbeanbag toss\nbob for apples\nguess the jellybeans or gumballs in a jar\nrubber duckie pond (just do something on the bottom of some of the ducks so one person or however many you want can win) float them in a small swimming pool.\ntug-a-war (teachers/parents vs. students)\n\nIm sure you could have alot of fun with this day, good luck
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I think a great how to speech is to show how to make origami.  It can be a little confusing to explain but if you're up for the challenge and pick something not too difficult, I think the class will like that.  Another idea would be to make something they could eat but it wouldn't require baking or cooking. Some treat like trail mix would be cool.  Good luck!
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just my idea,\n1. free games for them to play as entertainement.\n2. free downloads, like pics or software, please take note of the copyright issues
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Take various juices and put food coloring in them. Have some students taste the juices and see if they are fooled. Copy that down and make a chart for every juice and how many were fooled and not. It should be interesting. (I suggest water into purple to look like grape juice...and so on for others)
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The best and most overlooked way to improve classroom education of any kind is to introduce the use of boardgames. I have taught for over ten years all over the world, and only when I use boardgames do students voluntarily insist on extending their classes for two, three, even four hours. Not only that but they then show the most rapid improvement. \nCheck out the following websites for some useful background info.\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-1.html...\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-2.html...\n\nhttp://subscriptions.fasfind.com/wwwtool...\n\nhttp://www.gama.org/uploads/ns/xx/nsxx7l...\n\nGive it a try and you will be amazed. At least you will be helping to break the monopoly that the big textbook publishers have over the education industry.
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your high school should have information on that. maybe your school offers a course.
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How about some beanbag chairs and a small couch.  We also added a story time theatre with teired steps to maximize space for many students.  Plus if the children are young include some toy characters from the books and even artifacts from different countries.  Plus posters of famous faces promoting reading is a great addition.
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When warm weather settles in, take them on a nature hike.  Most teens will think this is cheesy, but the competition will soon settle in.\n\nPlay a seeking game.  Create a list of items, with points attached, of things that are around their school.  List the scientific name (ones studied in class and some hard one for bonus pts)...deducting points if they have to ask about their common name.\n\nItems can included leaves, feathers, rocks, etc.  Make it a week long project where kids can work in teams.\n\nMy 10th grade Bio teacher did this...and even though we moaned at first at how childish the game was...we all aced our test the following week, and had a good competition.\n\n(We got some sort of reward, but I forget what it was.)
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You might want to go to their website and try contacting them that way. Who knows? I think that might be a cool idea for a show. Having a class of school kids come in to watch them build a bike. Maybe your class could have a contest to come up with an idea for a bike. You never know. Stranger things have happened.
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My teacher would play speedball with us....you take a ball, pick a subject. You ask the question, toss it to a kid. If the kid answers it correctly, they stay it. If they answer incorrectly or they don't catch the ball, they're out! I always loved that game...
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do something fun . not to bore the kids or anything . some kind of reviewing activity like flash cards or a " mind dump " ( what my 5th grade teacher used to do ) a mind dump is where you take all your knowledge and just write it on a piece of paper. lol . if not then just go original and ask them questions .
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maybe get everyone in the class to chip in and throw him/her a suprise party. i did that for one of my teachers before w/ a couple of friend and she was realli moved. she was touched that we organized everything and had everyone participate.
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Role playing is a good technique.\n\nYou can use informal writing at the beginning of class to determine preconceptions students hold about a topic and then have them share their opinions.\n\nCrossword puzzles can be devised and used to help your students learn the vocabulary of the subject.\n\nStrive to create a warm and open atmosphere and mix in a little humor.
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I could be more specific if you provided more info about your class. What year graduation was, etc.\n\nBe sure the DJ has songs from the era. The music most people like the most is the music they listened to in High School. It's fun to hear recent covers of songs that came from your four years of HS. \n\nA good mixer game is make a sheet with blocks that have items in them like "Loves dogs" "Has a convertable" "Plays an instrument" "Has appeared on TV" Things you want to know about people. Distribute the sheet to everyone and have them walk around asking people to put their name in a block if they honestly qualify. It gets people talking and breaks the ice at the start of the event. You can time it and give prizes for the people that get the most names or something.\n\nA slide show of pictures that the year book printed and the deleted pictures, especially gag photos or mis-prints or rejects can be entertaining to see after years have passed. Remind them how they used to look, but show them something new that only a few got to see 'back in the day',\n\nGive out something for them to take home to remember the reunion by as well. A reproduction of the Prom invitation or something.