Survivor Game
Perhaps with the popularity of the TV game, Survivor, it might be fun to divide the room into tribes and let each one come up with its own name.
The activities might pit each of the teams against the others for possession of "immunity" for the winning group. That group then gets to sit out the next challenge, while the other groups must participate.
Rather than having a tribal council, at which individuals are voted out (which might hurt the feelings of the "weakest member"), the team might be able to "vote out" some particular small assignment they would otherwise have to do (i.e. the next pop quiz, the next daily assignment, etc.)
I think this is an interesting concept but would like a different conclusion to the TV tribal counsel might be more effective. Im not sure at this time but maybe someone could suggest a new conclusion.
Susan, instead of students surviving and being eliminated, give them each a content identity( such as prefix, suffix. Once they have answered questions/challenges and they vote the content they know off. That would be my suggestion.
Michele Deck
In our classroom we use different games from TV to get students engaged in learning. I often ask a student to come up with a new twist on some of these games like Survivor.
