Master Builder

Reward your students for answering questions by letting them play a fast-paced house building game!

Skill Level:
Beginning, Intermediate

Materials Needed:
Die, blackboard.

Instructions:
Divide class into teams and draw an example five-sided house on the board:

Teams compete to see who can build the most houses. Houses are “built” by rolling a die. If the student rolls a number between one and five, that many parts of a house are drawn on the board.
So, a student rolling a 2 would have the floor and one wall of the house drawn on the board. If the next student on the team rolled a 4, three strokes would be used to draw the last wall and the roof of the house, and the remaining stroke would be used to draw the floor of a second house.
If a student rolls a six and has an incomplete house the house is destroyed. Completed houses are not affected.
At the end of the activity the team with the most completed houses wins.