Tools: Bingo for Shop and Technology Class

This bingo game offers a lively review of tools in primary school and lower secondary school, played with the whole class. One person reads out the term on a drawn tool card, everyone else finds the matching picture on their bingo card and crosses it off. Because the bingo cards only contain pictures, the learners have to match the heard word to the correct tool themselves, even with easily confused tools. Bingo cards in two sizes and a short version for in between make the game flexible. It can be played from grade 3 to grade 8.

This is included:

• Game instructions: procedure and a quick version without cards to draw
• Tool cards: 20 cards with picture and term to draw
• Bingo cards: 32 cards with 3 × 3 fields and 32 cards with 4 × 4 fields

Usage options in technology and engineering class

Each child has their own bingo card, so everyone plays at the same time. As a short round at the end of the lesson, the game revisits the tools of the lesson once more, before a project it shows whether the basic tools are known.

Learning objectives and promoted competencies

• Listening comprehension: match the appropriate tool to a heard technical term
• Distinguish: similar tools such as try square and carpenter's square or different saws
• Reading: read out the terms when drawing the tool cards

Differentiation

The bingo cards with 3 × 3 fields lead to bingo faster, those with 4 × 4 fields require more attention.

From the same series there are also worksheets, memory game, dominoes, Match!, posters and Don't say it! as well as the tool picture cards; all together they are in the tools material package.

Have fun trying it out!

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