Member Chris Epstein asked for "year end" suggestions in our Teachers Lounge. She wanted something "a little more active" that the usual Jeopardy-style quiz review.

Member Neil MacQueen responded with the following:

Hey Chris,

Have you ever played "Cranium"?  It's one of those many variations on family trivia games you can buy. I've borrowed Cranium's four different ways of asking/answering a question and adapted them for our content.

I created about 15 content questions based on the year's lessons in one of the following Cranium answer formats:

Creative Cat: A player helps their teammates answer by drawing it, sculpting it in clay, or drawing it with his or her eyes closed. 

Data Head: A variety of trivia questions. Straight forward "what's the answer?"  If they could answer without a hint: double points, 1 hint half the points, 2 hints 1 point.

Word Worm: Players unscramble words, spell challenging words, guess definitions, identify words with letters left out, or spell words backward.   "Capernaum" for example, or "Jerusalem."

Star Performer: players impersonate a character, or act out the answer -- like charades.

All of these are timed answers. Everyone gets a turn.You can play in teams or as a group. Points are random and sometimes silly (like someone does an especially hilarious impersonation, etc.)