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Staff Photo by Dan Henry -- Brandon Reynolds, bottom, prepares to buzz in while playing classroom Jeopardy! at Daisy Elementary School this morning. Jon Cannon, back right, led the classroom Jeopardy! game show while visiting Scott Lillie's fifth grade classroom, where they used an electronic version of the game to incorporate recently learned material into the questions.
A class of fifth-graders from Daisy Elementary got to ask questions about the Civil War, Tennessee and even super heroes during a presentation of Classroom Jeopardy!
The students at the school in Soddy-Daisy divided themselves into three groups and played the Jeopardy! game using material they had learned in their classroom.
Classroom Jeopardy! is an electronic version of the quiz show that can be tailored by educators to suit their curriculum while using the sights and sounds of the quiz show, including the buzzers, a news release stated.
Jon Cannon, a former teacher and member of the Jeopardy! Clue Crew said the game is a great way to review for tests, introduce new material or just have fun in the classroom.
Principal Kirk Shrum said the electronic unit will help teachers and students know where they stand.
“We are in a technological age now and our students are used to fast pace, video games, instant feed back,” he said. “They want to know right away, ‘Did I get it right? Did I miss it?’ ”
With traditional testing, students find out how they scored on tests and assignments a day or two later, he said.
“This is a way of giving instant feedback and for a teacher to know where his or her students are functioning and make on-the-spot instructional decisions based on what he or she discovers.”
See tomorrow’s Chattanooga Times Free Press for full coverage.
Perla Trevizo joined the Chattanooga Times Free Press in 2007 and covers immigration/diversity issues and higher education. She holds a master’s degree in newswire journalism from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Texas. In 2011 she participated in the Bringing Home the World international reporting fellowship program sponsored by the International Center for Journalists, producing a series on Guatemalan immigrants for which she ...
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