[Teachldsseminary] Scripture Mastery

[Wayne Whitaker]

We did this game last week and all of my students seemed to enjoy it, and learn something as well.  I called it "Chase".  The idea came from a magazine article I read years ago on ways to entertain young children during the busy Christmas season.
 
For every four players you'll need a checker board, a regular die (sure sounds odd not to say dice!), and 4 different tokens (I used chessmen).  To adapt it for seminary, you'll also need a stack of question cards.  I had trivia cards for Judges in one stack and our SM phrase cards in another stack on the board.
 
To start, each player puts hs token in a different corner space of the board.  The object is to get around the perimeter of the board (32 spaces) back to your own starting spot.  It's kind of like the game Sorry!  Youngest player goes first and rolls the die.  If they rolled an even number they chose a SM card and told the rest of the group the reference that went with the phrase.  If they rolled an odd number, they chose a trivia question to answer.  If they answered correctly, they moved that many spaces clockwise around the board; if incorrect, they stayed put.  If they landed on another player's spot, that player was sent back to their beginning square.  That was the end of the turn, and the next person rolled.
 
If you don't have even teams of 4, it is still possible to play.  It works best to just space the tokens evenly around the perimeter of the board.  However,  our group of 5 just had 2 people starting at the same square.  And you don't have to use a checker board; anything with spaces going around in an unbroken loop would work.  (If I needed more than two teams - which is the number of checker boards we have at home - I would just draw something on paper.)
 
We had one group declare a winner; the other group would have had a winner, but the person before him sent him back to start and I had to call an end to the game so we could get out of seminary on time.  I spent the last few minutes of our class going over their answers to some of the Judges questions to make sure they understood the concepts they covered.  It was a successful day, and hopefully this idea will help someone else.
 
Becky Whitaker
Brandon, Florida > From: rodger11 at embarqmail.com> To: teachldsseminary at latter-dayvillage.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:48:08 -0500> Subject: Re: [Teachldsseminary] Scripture Mastery> > Any new scripture mastery games .......any interesting ones......fun ones??> always looking for fun ones for my class of about 20 kids...> > Rick Rodger> Marysville, Ohio> >