We have now a brand new recreation to share with you at We Are Lecturers. It’s referred to as Mind Sprint 60, and it’s a quiz-based recreation that college students can play time and again.
Once we got down to make this recreation, we needed one thing that will work in actual school rooms—one thing easy and versatile, whether or not you will have 60 seconds or 10 minutes. We already launched Phrase Lab (our day by day phrase recreation) and noticed how a lot academics and college students loved it. And we all know game-based studying isn’t simply enjoyable—research present it actually works and really helps with reminiscence and retention.
What to Anticipate From Mind Sprint 60
Mind Sprint 60 offers you two methods to play:
- Timed mode: Reply as many questions as you’ll be able to in 60 seconds.
- Untimed mode: Reply 12 questions at your individual tempo.
Alongside the best way, you’ll discover enjoyable twists—like bonus factors for streaks, the power to skip a query, or an opportunity to triple your factors should you’re feeling assured.
The aim isn’t to ace it on the primary strive. We truly need college students to overlook a number of questions as a result of the following time they see them, they’re extra prone to keep in mind the reply. It’s about progress and repetition in a approach that looks like a recreation (not a check).
Designed for Replay
We didn’t wish to create one thing college students play as soon as and overlook. So we constructed Mind Sprint 60 with replay in thoughts. Every recreation contains a minimum of 50 questions, they usually’re randomized so it’s by no means fairly the identical twice. The extra you play, the extra acquainted the content material turns into, and we consider there’s loads of alternative for significant studying by approaching it this fashion.
Right here’s What Lecturers Informed Us
We shared early variations of the sport with academics and requested them to strive it out with their college students. Right here’s a little bit of what we heard:
“My college students LOVED this. They needed to maintain enjoying longer than I had allotted and requested to play it once more later within the day.” — Natasha McDonald
“It was the most effective form of chaos—laughing, shouting out solutions, light ribbing at errors. They had been having a good time, even after they obtained solutions incorrect.” — J. Ansbach
Strive It Out and Test Again Typically
We’re beginning with a number of themes, however extra are on the best way. You will discover Mind Sprint 60 on our We Are Lecturers Sport Hub and use it everytime you want a fast mind break, a category warm-up, or a brand new approach to evaluation content material.
We’d love to listen to the way you’re utilizing it—and what sorts of themes you need subsequent. You possibly can at all times share right here.
