JEOPARDY POWERPOINT
The Jeopardy PowerPoint can be an excellent tool to use in the classroom to
review and/or learn new content. Students seem to love it because it’s
exciting and is a non-traditional teaching technique. You are receiving a
blank copy of the file and the instructions below will guide you through the
process of modifying it for your classroom.
1. Open PowerPoint
2. When PowerPoint opens choose Open an existing presentation and
click OK.
3. A window will pop up. Find the jeopardy.ppt file.
4. Click Open
5. The Jeopardy PowerPoint file opens showing the first slide. It looks
like the Jeopardy Game Show board.
6. Click on the first block which says “Category Heading”. Type your
first column heading..i.e. Vocabulary
7. Repeat step 6 renaming each category heading
8. After completing steps 6 and 7, you are now ready to begin entering
your questions and answers. On the Jeopardy game show contestants
receive the answer and must give the question. If you wish to give the
students the question and have them answer it…it’s OK….it’s your
game.
9. Let’s enter questions. Scroll to the next slide. Slide 2 is your first
answer, Slide 3 will be your first question…and so on.
10. The best procedure for adding questions and answers is to write them
down in a list.
11. Refer to your list as you’re entering questions and answers on each
page and you shouldn’t get lost. Look below the buttons in the bottom
left corner to see what slide you’re on.
12. Click on each slide in the “Click to Add Title” box and enter your
question or answer. Repeat through Slides 2-51. Save it and you’re
done.