Alicia Davis : Kahoot!

Every year teachers begin the school year with professional development. While attending this professional development, they would end with a game called Kahoot! to summarize and quiz us on what we learned. I thought, this can be a fun way to review my students for their science quiz.

“Kahoot! Is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.”

Creating a Kahoot is very easy. Many times, you can “discover” topics such as water cycle and many times you will find that someone has already created quizzes for this subject. If you don’t like some of the questions on the quiz, you can duplicate and edit it to make it your own. You can also start from scratch and click the create button.

When you sign up for Kahoot, you have several packages to choose from, but I have only used the Basic Kahoot! for quiz reviews.

To play Kahoot the players need to have a device such as a cell phone, tablet, or computer to access the Kahoot! To join the game, they must enter a unique PIN number. The host of the game will need a big screen to display the quiz questions and answer choices. When the game starts, the quiz questions will be displayed, and the player will answer on their own devices.

When I taught 1^st grade, I would announce that we were going to play Kahoot! and the students would get so excited. My classroom was loud and crazy but that showed me how much they were engaged.

I have used this tool when ending my Financial Aid presentations and they students are always engaged and having fun. Most of all I am surprised to see that many do well on the quiz, which tells me that they listened and learned something.