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| Students practice writing and take a picture |
Goosechase EDU is a digital game that is played outdoors, meaning, outside of the classroom and perhaps even outside of school. In addition to language skills such as speaking, writing and listening, It encourages 21st century skills such as collaboration, cooperation, communication and social skills.
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| We combine pens, papers and colors with technology |
From the site: GooseChaseEDU is a web-based platform that creates scavenger hunts for an app of the same
name on mobile (iOS and Android) devices. First, teachers go to the website to
create a new game with a basic description. ... Each mission is a scavenger
hunt clue, which comes in three types: photo/video, text, or location.
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| Social learning/ group work |
The teacher has to
set up a quiz or a game with many tasks. Each task is worth a certain amount of
points.
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| Practice writing and combine with tech |
The tasks are, preferably, to be performed outside of the classroom in
groups. With the educator account (GoosechaseEDU) teachers can have up to five groups
but each student in the group, can complete the missions from their phone by themselves/in
pairs and help their group win.
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| Students choose their next mission |
In my English lessons,
I write tasks for students using the new vocabulary I want them to practice. I also have them interview people, take videos,
record their voice and take pictures of things around the school. I have them
communicate with other teachers other students and thus enhance speaking
skills. I have them draw things, write up things on paper and take pictures. That
is how I have them practice writing and spelling skills and also practice
grammar concepts.
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| Students draw and label new words |
Some of the missions
I give are:
Record a video of a
short dialogue with a friend. (I provide the template). (Here students get
really creative, they act out the dialogue!)
Take a photo of a
teacher that has recently been to a concert (vocabulary word: concert).
Draw a map of your
city and label the fire station, the police station and the hospital ("our
town" vocabulary).
Take a picture of
something around the school that is round and expensive. (vocabulary: round,
expensive).
Listen to the
following song and sing it with a partner. (Here I add a link to a youtube
video) record yourself singing this song. (Practice vocabulary, collaboration, pronunciation
and speaking).
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| Students practice writing and take a picture |
Finally….
I always leave 10
minutes to show all the submissions on the board and give bonus points
to those who were exceptionally creative (Like those really creative videos!).
I also make sure that
everyone has the task according to the instructions and I deduct points for
those who did not follow the instructions properly.
Finally we show the
leaderboard on the board and we declare the winning group!
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| Students draw a map of their town using new vocabulary |
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