Jeopardy! Last Lesson

Friday March 30th was our final lesson and it was a game of Jeopardy to see what the students had learned in their week with the unit we had taught them. I would have to admit that some of the questions we made we were concerned that the students may not have been able to answer all of them. It was also the last hour before they got to go on spring break, so I was also concerned about keeping the kids on task during the game. The teacher said she had not yet played jeopardy with the students this year.
The lesson went surprisingly well. There was not a single question the students did not get. Some students may have initially missed the question but the teams as a whole were able to come up with every response to the questions. The students also worked surprisingly well together. I was very impressed how they quietly huddled up as a team to discuss the answer when the other team missed a question. They were also very enthralled with the game. It was not at all an issue to get them to stay on task. If anything the only slight problem was they may have gotten too into the game at times.
This lesson was really great to see how well the students had retained the information we had taught them and their ability to recall it on command. At times during the week I was concerned that some of the students may have not been retaining the information, but the final lesson was very reassuring that we had in fact taught them something and they in fact remembered it.