Create your own questions and use a digital projector, a large monitor, or individual computer stations to flash this interactive teaching tool up for students of any age to play. Works great with a Smartboard too! Use our free3000+ state-aligned questions to boost student test scores!!!
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Buy a download or CD-Rom disk and use this program on any and all your computers!
Download over 3000 FREE state test-aligned game show questions
for grades 3-12.
(See below!)
GAME SHOW WIZARD
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Each set of questions that you make will upload into ALLEIGHT
of these Game Show Wizard games that your students will love:
Lower 48 Teams battle it out for control of a U.S. map by answering your questions and rolling 10-sided "dice." Students learn the states while developing team-building camaraderie in attacking and defending strongholds and borders with their advancing armies. You can have your players defend and attack capitols for the win or completely blanket the map with their territories. The instructor has total control of the game situation, including game-saving, and like all the other Game Show Wizard games, Lower 48 can be played on computer stations, with a digital projector, or with a large monitor. Up to five sets of game questions can be used during a single game!
Heist This "Jeopardy"-type game is probably the most traditional of the Game Show Wizard games. During the game, a team that has correctly answered a question has the option of taking cash from other teams, giving it to an allied team, adding it to their own score, or going "double-or-nothing." Imagine your questions and answers used in a purely interactive and music/sound-effects-laden educational gaming environment. This is the classical questions-in-categories format. It doesn't get much better when it comes to competitive, interactive learning. Allows for three to six teams.
TOX Appropriate for school or business environments, teams or individual players attempt to capture the most tic-tac-toe boards by taking turns placing their mark for each answer correct. Up to three teams or players can play against each other. Game length and complexity depends upon how many tic-tac-toe boards you wish to have the teams compete for (3, 5, 7, or 9) at the same time! Lots of strategy needed here, but very easy to play. Your questions are randomized. Up to five sets of questions can be used for a total of 250 possible questions thrown at your players during a single game! Save and restore games as needed.
Moon Mogul Have your players compete for mining interests on the moons of Jupiter. A team wins by gaining resources, by taking over all the properties on the board, or by bankrupting all the other teams. Easy to learn yet complex enough to continuously engage students, this one is more like a board game than a game show, offering greater variety to your repertoire of competitive learning environments. Moon Mogul allows up to five sets of Game Show Wizard questions (a possible total of 250 questions!) to be loaded into the same gaming session for the option of long-term play. Games can also be saved and continued later.
Academic Football Sound like an oxymoron? Nah, it's just another awesome game that you can use to review your own test material. Two teams battle it out to gain yardage and score by answering your questions created in the Game Show Wizard. If the offensive team answers correctly, the play chosen (of 25) has a much greater chance of resulting in gained yardage. But the defense has a chance with every question to disrupt the play. All the essentials of football exist--runs, passes, downs, extra points, field goals, touchdowns, safeties, touchbacks, etc. If you don't know football very well, don't worry. It runs itself. Just sit back and watch your students get heavily involved in learning.
Pyramid Watch your students or colleagues, using players dressed as business professionals, compete to be the first to scale a pyramid of steel bands, challenging each other on the Ladder of Success in a kind of abstract, post-modern setting. Great for both corporate and classroom settings, it's King of the Hill with a number of twists. A player advances to the next of the ten layers of the pyramid with each correctly-answered question. If s/he invades the level of another player, a challenge round follows, resulting in advancements and knockouts. Three to five teams/players can play using up to five sets of your game questions (up to 250 questions). This game, like all the others, is included in the downloads and on the CD-Rom disk.
Fadeout Ok, now imagine a game where the contestants can dismember each other for answering correctly (on screen, of course). This game is loaded with fun and teaching potential. Fadeout was originally given the title "Backstab," perhaps conveying some idea of the strategic (moral?) dilemmas faced by the players. However, it's harmless fun and the basic concept is simple. A team or player is represented on the screen as a cartoon character. When a team answers a question correctly, that team chooses which one of the other teams' characters will lose a body part. It's competitive Hangman, but in reverse. The last team left standing (or hobbling) wins.
Cubicles In this delightfully challenging game, players or teams answer a battery of questions in order to increase the likelihood that they will complete the maze that follows. For each correctly answered question, seconds are added. In the maze, players have to use both analytical and dexterity skills to maneuver their mouse from its point of origin on the maze to the cheese. Students can use either the buttons on the screen (for interactive whiteboard play), the computer's mouse, or the arrow keys on a keyboard. The first team to conquer the predetermined number of mazes, set by you, wins. The presenter/teacher maintains complete control over the gaming environment, time details, etc.
Videos of students playing the Game Show Wizard using an OPTIONAL interactive whiteboard:
Check out how quick and easy it is to make your own questions to use in the games . . .
Once you've installed the software from the disk double-click the Game Show Wizard icon on your desktop.
Next, choose the Game Creator icon
(on the far right).
Once you've opened the Game Creator, either open a saved set of game questions or start making a new set.
Once you've named the categories, start building or editing your questions and attach images to them (if desired).
Then, just go back to the desktop and click one of the game icons from the top screen to open a game.
Upload up to five sets of game questions that you (or others) have created into the chosen game.
Now, just sit back and watch your students go at it. Take a coffee break. Enjoy the show!
When a student answers one of your questions,
here's what it looks like:
If you attached an image to a question, it will look like this.
(Your browser is limiting the image quality.
In reality the image is FAR clearer.)
If you did not attach an image to the question, it will look like this.
The Game Show Wizard . . .
Works with a digital projector, a large monitor, and individual computer stations with just one license!. Throw in a SmartBoard or any interactive whiteboard with your digital projector for that bit of extra awesome educational classroom gaming experience! Allows you to easily create questions in game files (50 questions per file) and upload the same questions into any of seven different games Lets you attach images to your questions, allowing for incredible flexibility! Works with any age group--from 3rd grade children to adults Lets you print out randomized tests from the multiple choice questions that you have entered and saved Works on any Windows operating system (95, 98, 2000, XP, and Vista) Works in your classroom whether you have an interactive whiteboard and digital projector or just a big monitor, a computer, and a mouse. It's that flexible! Installs to your computer and run without the CD-Rom disk Entitles you to a lifetime of free upgrades for as long as you own the software--just download from our website any new games and question files that get made in the future! Stimulates three of the five senses in your learners (Sorry, no smelling or tasting involved) Installs and runs very easily, with game start up time at less than a minute Gives you epic popularity among your students. Yours will be the class or training session they look forward to attending Even installs on multiple computers! Put two or three kids at each of your computer stations, copy the game files you've made to a folder at each computer--and let them choose the games they want to play in pairs or in threes! Make your reviewing sessions a blast!
FREE Game Question Files Available for Download
Professional teachers did all the work--you and your kids get to have all the fun! Just click a link below, save to your desktop, and double-click the downloaded setup file to install!
When you play the Game Show Wizard in your classroom, you can make questions yourself, or you can use questions that we and a few of our users have created, usable for all the Game Show Wizard games and specifically aligned to state testing standards common to state criterion reference tests as required by No Child Left Behind.
After your kids have thoroughly experienced the questions relevant to your core area in a competitive and fun learning environment, there's no reason for not seeing serious improvement in the number of your kids passing those high-stakes state exams. If there's a panacea for teaching kids the tough concepts on the state tests, which don't really vary much from state to state, these questions and the Game Show Wizard are it!
Please note: All of these sets of game questions are already installed on the Game Show Wizard.
We have placed them here in case you ever need to install them again.
Download Secondary Questions (Aligned to Common Testing Objectives)
Math Terms Basic Equations Working with Exponents Laws & Properties Fractions vs. Decimals Integer Operations Basic Functions Charts & Graphs Slope & X-Y Intercept Working with Polynomials Graphing & Inequalities
Linear Equations Non-Linear Equations Plane Geometry Solid Geometry Equivalents Pythagorean Theorem Percents & Ratios Proportions Probability Statistics
Biology Concepts Mitosis and Meiosis Anatomy Taxonomy Cell Structure Genetics & Heredity Ecosystems Food Webs Cycles Evolution Theory Organ Systems Properties of Matter
Physical Science Concepts Force, Power, Work Density, Mass, Volume Velocity & Acceleration Energy & Current Recalling Formulas Applying Formulas Laws of Physics Thermodynamic Laws Waves Earth Science Astronomy & Weather
About 34% of the questions have images--2.5MB download
Nature of Science Physical Science Earth Science Life Science Diagram Clusters Using Charts
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I purchased the Game Show Wizard software a week ago. I absolutely love all the possibilities of how I can use it in the classroom. The students loved FadeOut as I used it in reviewing the New England Colonies. (Michael--Circleville, OH)
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LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
The possibilities are now endless!
All of our programs work on Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, and Windows Vista.
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