Classroom Scoreboard Tool: 4 Team Dinosaur (Foundation to Year 6)
Team Scoreboard is a four-team classroom scoreboard for Foundation to Year 6 by Teach This, an interactive PowerPoint tool with a dinosaur theme. Each team has its own card and colour: Team T-rex, Team Stego, Team Tricera and Team Bronto. Every team starts at 0, and each tap on a team's +1 button adds one point. Each team can score up to 30 points. A Reset scores button sets every team back to 0, and a How to use slide explains each button. It opens in Microsoft PowerPoint on any interactive whiteboard, panel or projector, but the How to use slide notes that it does not play in Google Slides. It has no macros, no student logins and no student data collected.
Run it beside a spelling quiz, a maths game or a class reward system instead of ruling a score table on the board. Scores stay large and clear for the whole room, so there are no arguments about the tally at the end.
Differentiation
Modifications
Use only two of the four teams for younger classes and point to the team colours as you add each point. Count each new point aloud with the class so the scores are easy to follow.
Extensions
Ask a student scorekeeper to work out the difference between the leading team and each other team at the end of the game. Have teams set a target score for the session and check their progress at the halfway point.