Make Your Own Bible Review Games
If you have a computer with Microsoft Power Point, you can create custom Jeopardy-like review games. You will need to have a basic understanding of Power Point to create these games. I have just started creating the games, so here are the basic instructions. Play with them, change colors and see what you can do. They would work good if you use stations or the rotation model in your Sunday school.
1) Start Microsoft Power Point
2) Create a blank slide.
3) Go to the <Slideshow> menu and choose <Action Buttons> from the list, click
on the "blank" button.
4) Draw a square from the top left corner down to the bottom right corner. This
will create an action button that covers your entire slide. On my computer, this
create a green square with a border. The point of this large button is to
prevent kids from "clicking" through the slideshow without answering the
questions.
5) After drawing the square, a menu window will pop up. Click on <hyper link to>
and then choose the <Slide> choice. You want to link the button to the current
slide, which here will be slide 1. Now click <OK>.
6) Right click on the slide. Choose <Format Autoshape>. Set both the "Fill
color" and the "Line color" to no fill and no line. This will make this large
button disappear.
7) Now, insert a text box at the top of your slide. This will be your question.
8) Next, create another Action Button, just like you did in step #3. This button
will be your first answer button, so it only needs to be big enough to hold your
answer. When the next window pops up, choose <Hyper link to> again and
choose <Slide.> This will be your incorrect answer, so link it to the current
slide, which will be slide 1. You can also choose a sound to play when the wrong
answer is selected at the bottom of this window. Choose something like breaking
glass.
Right click on the button and choose <Add Text>. Type a wrong answer for your
question.
9) To create a correct answer button repeat step #8, except, Choose <Hyper link
to> and then select <Next Slide>. Choose a more positive sound such as Applause.
10)Now, you can have the correct answer go to the next question or display a
slide that says something like, "Good Job!" Either way, insert a new slide. This
slide will either be your next question, where you will repeat all previous
steps or will contain a message and/or picture (Smiley face) in which case you
wouldn't create the large Action Button that covers the page so students can
move to the next answer.
11) Now, repeat the previous steps until you have slides for all of your
question. Remember, if you answer buttons are side by side, make the left button
correct on one slide and then switch. Keep the order random so there isn't a
pattern. This keeps kids from clicking straight through.
12) If you would like to have more than two possible choices, just create
multiple "wrong answer" buttons. Remember all action buttons should link to the
current slide, except for the correct answer button which moves to the next
slide.
13) Now, play the slide show and try out your work.