Geometry always seems to be a challenging chapter as there is an abundant amount of vocabulary on state standardized testing and many students get overwhelmed with the large amount of vocabulary they need to learn. I was looking on Pinterest for ideas to help with learning vocabulary and came up with an idea after seeing this pin; http://pinterest.com/pin/37858453089758677/. I had my students make fortune tellers to use with their vocabulary words and play the 'fortune teller game' with their classmates. On the outside flaps of the fortune teller the students wrote geometry words. Student A would play the game by selecting a word on the outside flap and then student B would hold the fortune teller and spell out the word at the same time as they would be opening and closing the teller. Once the word was spelled, student B would open the teller to the flap where the fortune teller stopped. The flap would have another vocabulary word on it. Student A would then have to tell the meaning of that word. Once student A told the meaning, student B flipped over the inside flap and revealed the meaning they wrote. The students were able to learn vocab while having fun!!
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