Online Bingo For Classroom
First things first: We’re proud to announce that we’re officially listed on the #withClassroom website!
If you’re just catching up with the news, here’s some extra info: with BookWidgets, you can make automatically graded quizzes and interactive exercises. Choose between 40+ interactive exercise templates, and just add your own content.
So, what does this have to do with Google Classroom? Well, we made a smooth integration with Google Classroom. This means that you can create these interactive learning exercises right from inside your trusted Google Classroom environment. And what’s more, results of these widgets are automatically sent to your Google Classroom for you to give feedback.
In this blog post I’ll show you how to gamify Google Classroom with BookWidgets’ game widgets. Since gamification in education is the real thing, I’ll show you some examples and give you some extra lesson ideas as well.
Classroom management can be a doozy! I wanted something fun and engaging to help my students stay focused throughout the year that hit multiple classroom expectations. I love changing up what I use in my classroom to help my students manage behaviors. These classroom Management bingo boards are perfect! I usually introduce the bingo board. For older kids, use Bingo to practice vocabulary words, history events or math facts. Decide how many squares you want in your grid. For younger kids, a grid that is three squares wide by three squares tall is more manageable. For older kids, a five square by five square grid gives you more options. Sign in - Google Accounts. Our Fullscreen version of the Online Bingo Caller is great for hosting your own Bingo games! With a clear screen for the number just called, as well as the matching Bingo Phrase its a firm favorite among our users! Free and easy to use!
Want to know how to get started first? Take a look at this blog post.
10 Fun learning games to share in Google Classroom
1. Bingo
The first learning game is Bingo! Add your own images or words to the bingo widget from BookWidgets, and share the result with your students. Every student will get a different bingo sheet.
In this example the teacher calls out digital times and the students have to tick off the matching clock. When a student has ticked off 5 in a row, he has BINGO!
So, what else can you do with a bingo game in your classroom?
- Definition bingo: read out the definition of a word, and let the student find the word on the card.
- Picture vocabulary bingo: use cards with pictures of the (translated) words you’re calling out
- Minimal pairs bingo: use pairs of words that vary in a single sound (bat + but, desk + disk, fan + van, sing + thing,…)Rhyme Bingo: call out rhyme words of the words on the bingo card.
- Decimal Bingo: put decimals on the card, and either call out the numbers literally, or as fractions.
- Headshot bingo: put photos and/or names of all the students in the class on the card, and optionally complete the list with staff members, teachers, the principal,… Call out people by name, or give clues about the person you’re describing.
Take a look at this blog post for 20 more bingo examples!
2. Crossword
One of the most used learning games is the crossword puzzle. You’re probably using it the ordinary way: you give a definition and students have to find the right term. As you can see in the example, a crossword puzzle can be more than that as well!
Use crossword puzzles for:
- Science: Learning the elements of the periodic table isn’t easy. It definitely is much more fun when you put the symbols and their names in a crossword puzzle.
- Geography: Geography also has its fair share of names to remember: countries, cities, continents, mountain regions, rivers,… The fun solution: crossword puzzle!
- Languages: when you’re teaching a foreign language, translations have to made. Let your students translate the given word to the language you teach.
Free Classroom Bingo Games
More lesson ideas? Check out this post about the crossword puzzle.
One more thing: the crossword puzzle has an automatic grading option. Let your students submit their completed crossword puzzle and take a look in Google Classroom!
3. Jigsaw Puzzle
Insert an image, choose how many pieces you want, and generate. That’s it! Creating a jigsaw puzzle in Google Classroom with BookWidgets is that simple!
A jigsaw puzzle is a lot of fun, but what’s the learning value in this game?
- Let your students solve geographical puzzles about a continent, a country, the world. This way, they know where everything belongs in the world.
- Let your students solve a puzzle about an image, showing a special environment or historical figure. In geography class or history class, they have to tell everything they know about the place or person on the image.
- Let students solve a jigsaw puzzle about an image. For example, an image of the bedroom. Students have to translate everything they see on the image to a foreign language. This way, they learn the vocabulary.
4. Memory
A memory game is used to train your students’ memory, and can be used to make associations. Two birds, one stone.
How are you going to use a memory game?
- When one student finds an identical pair, they tell the other student what it’s about. Students switch turns.
- When one student finds an identical pair, they tell the other student the translation. Students switch turns.
- Let students make associations. Match images with words, use synonyms and opposites, translations, arithmetics and their solution, statues with countries, etc.
Want to check how many times your students tried to complete this game? Just let them submit their work!
5. Randomness
This is probably a learning game you’ve not seen before. Add images, numbers, words or emoticons to wheels. Spin the wheels, and see what comes up.
Online Bingo Game For Classroom
Let your students come up with a story about some randomly given emoji’s. What a great speaking or writing exercise!
Other possibilities are:
- Let students build a correct sentence with words given by the randomness widget. For example: You - To speak - Future perfect.
- Do experiments around probabilities. Roll the dice or flip coins.
- Get to know each other. Add headshot pictures of your students in one wheel, and a topicsuch as “hobbies” about which they have to talk about in the other wheel.
- Add numbers to the wheels. Spin the wheel and let students multiply, divide, subtract or add the numbers.
6. Pair matching
This game looks a lot like “Memory”. The only difference is that students have to match pairs, without remembering their location.
Take a look at this example:
Online Bingo For Classroom
Here are some other associations you can make:
- Words and their translation
- Images and their translation
- Arithmetic and a solution
- Images of people and their names
- Images of monuments and their names/places
- Words and their definitions
- Etc.
Here, just like with the memory game, you can also see how many times students tried to match pairs. This way you know if students didn’t just guess the pairs.
7. Spot the difference
In education, a lot of things are compared to each other. It’s important for students to know the differences. This learning game is exactly what you need.
Take a look at this example. Do you know the differences between them?
Here’s some extra inspiration: You could put together two images about ancient building styles and ask students to explain the differences. And what about the differences between plants, animals, vegetations, regions, ancient cultures, empires, warriors, gods, … You name it!
8. Hangman
You all know the fun game hangman. It’s often used as an energizer or as lesson filler. But it can have an educational value as well.
Use a hangman game:
- to introduce yourself as a teacher. What are your hobbies/ favorite food? Let the students guess.
- to introduce a new theme or topic
- to let student spell difficult words correctly
- to summarize a topic or story in a few words. Those words are important keywords that students have to guess
Can you guess my favorite food?
9. Word Search
This one is a tricky one. Some student can find words immediately, others just don’t. In most cases, students just have to find the given words. But, you can spice things up as well!
- Most science subjects come with a lot of terminology to learn. Word search puzzles are perfect for the job of introducing scientific words in an interactive way.
- How about geography? Names of continents, countries, cities, rivers, mountains, … Give the capital of a country and let students search for the right country in the word search.
- When teaching languages, students could look for the translation of the given word.
- For the little ones, students could look up the spelled number, so they know how to write a number.
Want to know how many words students found? Just let your students return their work to you and find out.
10. Mind map
A mind map is mostly used to brainstorm on projects or to recall learning material.
You can also use a mind map:
- to structure a concept
- to summarize a theme/topic
- to map ideas
- to ask questions around a topic
- to introduce yourself
Here, students can send their mind map back to the teacher as well!
Your turn
That’s it, you’re ready to engage your students with these easy-to-make learning game templates.
Don’t forget to install the BookWidgets Plugin first! Have a look at this blog post if you need more help setting up BookWidgets.
Host a bingo game for up to 1000 players
Bingo Maker is paving the way for the future of bingo gaming. With our web platform, you can host a virtual bingo game for up to 1000 players using virtual. Players can join your game on the Games List page. When you activate the bingo caller, you can play as many games as you want for three hours. You can modify the winning patterns every time you restart a new game. You can save bingo cards as a PDF file and go print them in a print shop. We also provide solutions for those looking for simple solutions such as the Free Virtual caller and the Free Virtual Card. You can host your virtual game with a video conferencing service such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Facebook Live Stream or YouTube Live Stream.
Free Virtual Bingo Game
Host a Free Virtual Bingo Game every day with up to 25 players. You can try and learn how it works. Log in to your Bingo Maker account using Facebook or your email/password. In the top menu bar, click “Free Virtual Game”.
Free Bingo Caller
Here is the free bingo caller version of the Bingo Maker web application. This version is not linked to the bingo cards of the game, and you have to manually validate the winners.
Free Virtual Card
If you want to simply play a card on your device right away, then our free virtual card is perfect for you. Click the squares and get a BINGO!
Play bingo with virtual cards
In order to save ink and paper, players can join your game and play a virtual card on any device that can access the internet and that has a web browser. Players can join your virtual game on their devices at BingoMaker.com, and click “Join a game“. They search your game name, click “Join”, enter your password, and receive their virtual cards. There is no login process for players to get their cards.
Host the game with the online bingo caller
Our virtual bingo caller allows you to draw random numbers as in professional bingo halls. Our bingo caller is linked to the cards, so it tells you in real time the winners of the game with printed cards and virtual cards. Make manual or automatic random draws of numbers with our bingo caller. You can also make the draws using your own physical bingo cage with numbered balls, and click the numbers with the feature “Manual selection of the draws”.
Choose from a list of 64 winning patterns
We have a choice of 64 different winning patterns for players to get a bingo. When you restart a new game, the players cards will be reset, and they keep playing with the same cards. Players can have only one card per device or web browser.
Once the game has started, its name will be displayed on the Games List page.
Display the bingo flashboard to players on another screen
With our virtual bingo caller, you can open in another window of our web browser the bingo flashboard of your game. You can then display the flashboard to players on a TV or projector screen and follow the draws in real time.
Make custom cards ready to print
Make bingo cards and play a game has never been easier. With the web app Bingo Maker, anyone can organize a bingo game like a pro. You will be able to make bingo cards with the parameters of your choice, design the cards by importing images and play a game with the virtual bingo caller. Print the desired number of cards or distribute virtual cards to the players and start the game.
You can insert publicity around the cards in order to promote your business or the coming events. For example, if you make bingo cards for a Christmas party, it could be a good idea to insert winter season related images around the cards.
Several settings can be changed when making the cards to allow maximum freedom for users to make custom cards and host a personalized bingo game.
An intuitive interface
The cards generated by the application are listed by game in the table of the app’s main page. This system allows you to manage your games and create other versions of earlier games.
The top right menu allows you to add credits, view your transaction history, edit your profile and communicate with the support team. To edit a game, use the tool icon to the right of the game name. The last added or modified game will be displayed at the top of the list. The latest design or simulation of a game will be displayed at the top of the game files. You can clean your games list by archiving older ones. The information about a game can be quickly viewed when going on the (i) icon to the right of the game name.
Create an account with Facebook or an email address
To use the application, all users must create a unique account in which the cards will be saved. We have put at your disposal two connection methods to facilitate the subscription process. If you create an account using Facebook, Bingo Maker will only get public information to create your account. If you do not have Facebook or you do not want to connect with it, create an account using an “Email / Password”. A confirmation email will be sent to verify your account (it could be in your spam folder). You can modify your account in the section “Edit my profile”.
List of web services:
Our web application is a pay-per-use service, each function costs credits depending on how many cards you have in your bingo game. We also provide free services: Free Virtual Game; Free Bingo caller; Free virtual Card.
- Create custom bingo cards for up to 1000 players per game using numbers or custom words and phrases;
- Host the game with our virtual bingo caller and validate the winners. Distribute virtual bingo cards and/or printed bingo cards to players;
- Create a codes list for players to get their cards. Manage the distribution of virtual cards that better fits your needs;
- Create the design of the cards by importing images around the printed cards;
- Simulate a bingo game with your cards and predict the outcome of a winners.
Thank you for using our web services
The satisfaction of our customers is at the center of our concerns. You can now make your own bingo cards and discover all the possibilities the web application offers. We hope you enjoy your experience using our web application Bingo Maker.