Jeopardy Through
PowerPoint: Template and Instructions
Developed by
Lynne Crandall,
Modified by
Mark Kondrak,
I.
Download the Jeopardy Template
To download the
Jeopardy Template, go to http://languagecenter.cla.umn.edu/index.php?page=forum_jeopardy
Select Mac if you use a Macintosh
computer or Windows if you use a PC to download the Jeopardy template on
your computer. Close the browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape).
This
simple-to-adapt Jeopardy template enables the instructor to quickly prepare
challenging and enjoyable review materials or provide a venue for students to
synthesize what they know.
A typical
classroom Jeopardy
prompt-and-response template in PowerPoint
is composed of 54 slides. Slide 1 is the Title
slide; slide 2 is the Categories
Slide; Slide 53 is the Daily Double
Slide; and slide 54 is the End of the
Game slide. Slides 3-52 are the Prompt or Response slides. There are 5
themes or categories, twenty-five prompts and 25 responses.
II. How to create a Jeopardy
Game with the template
1. Open
Microsoft PowerPoint. Select “Open” in the “File” menu. Find the folder where
you saved your Jeopardy Template. Double click on “JeopTemp.” You can now start
to edit on the template and create your own Jeopardy game.
2. Put a title
for your game in Slide 1. If you like, you can also put a picture/image in the
box provided in Slide 1.
3. Enter a
question in Slide 3, then enter a correct response/answer in slide 4. Do the
same with slides 5-52. In a word, for slides 3-52, put a question to each odd
numbered slide, and put a correct response/answer to the slide that follows.
Note: Please make sure that the
answer/response to a question must be put in a slide immediately following the
one that carries the relevant question.
III.
What do you need to play the game
1. A computer, a
data projector, and a screen.
2. Your completed PowerPoint presentation on a floppy disk, or on your laptop, or on
the web. If you want to make your Jeopardy Game available on the web so that
your students can have access to it, make sure you upload not only the web
page, but also the whole folder that contains everything of the game.
3. Something for the groups to use to
show they have an answer — could be a bell, blocks to clap together, etc.
4. Something to tally scores on — people
will want to know who is winning!
(or maybe someone is designated as scorekeeper)
5. Prizes!! (Yes,
your students will expect to win something!)
candy, a free homework pass, etc.
IV. How to play the Jeopardy Game
1. Open the Jeopardy Game in PowerPoint.
2. Click on the first slide to start the
game.
3. Click the “Slide Show” button at the
lower left-hand corner to start the show.
4. Click anywhere on the screen to move
to the second slide, which is the “Categories” slide.
5. Ask the group who has the right to
start the game to select a category and the amount of money in that category.
6. Click on the box that indicates the
selected category and amount of money.
7. When a team claims to have got an
answer, click on the question mark (or anywhere
on the screen) and check the answer.
8. Click another box of category
and amount of money as students have selected… and the game can go on until
every question has been selected.
9. To go to the “End of the
Game” slide, go back to the Categories Slide (Slide 2), and click on the
icon, the end of the game slide
will appear.
Tip: Each Jeopardy game lasts about 25 minutes. You can divide
the class into 3 or 4 teams. Teachers have played a Jeopardy game in classes of
up to 25 students, with 5 teams, each team having 5 students.