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Talk a Mile a Minute
• Learning Goal: Identify concept characteristics as terms are described
and make connections with concepts, in order to build academic
background knowledge and vocabulary.
• Teams of students are given a list of terms that have been organized
into categories. Typically, the words in the list are related by
meaning, such as “parts of a circle,” or “things associated with
planets.”
• To play each round, every team designates a “talker” who is provided
with a list of words under a category title. The talker tries to get the
team to say each of the words by quickly describing them. The talker
is allowed to say anything about the terms, “talking a mile a minute,”
but may not use any words in the category title or any rhyming words.
The talker keeps talking until the team members identify the first
term in the category. The talker then moves quickly to the next term
in the category until all terms have been guessed or time is called.
Things associated with weather
Tornado
Hurricane
Cold front
Cumulus clouds
Sleet
Barometer
El Nino
Things associated with oceans
Waves
Moon
Algae
Pacific
Ships
Tropical fish
George Clooney
Rivers of the World
Nile
Missouri
Thames
Hudson
Amazon
Mississippi
Swanee
Things associated with plants
Photosynthesis
Foliage
Stems
Fertilizer
Chlorophyll
Pollinate
Chia pets
Things associated with earth science
1
6
5
3
2
7
4
Things associated with science
Oxygen
Carbon Monoxide
Helium
Neon
Rotate
Revolve
Atom
U.S. Presidents
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
Bill Clinton
Dwight Eisenhower
Things associated with math
Equation
Addition
Subtraction
Equals
Division
Bar graph
Pi
Authors/Poets
John Steinbeck
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Stephen King
Emily Dickinson
Ernest Hemingway
Maya Angelou
Things associated with fiction
Character
Plot
Setting
Dialogue
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
Theme
Things associated with the topography
Plateau
Mountain
Bay
Canyon
Lake
Mesa
Forest
Things associated with today
Achievement Gap
Building Background Knowledge
Nonlinguistic
Pyramid
Vocabulary
Consistency
Quadratic Equation
Things associated with Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Globe Theater
To be or not to be
Hamlet
Midsummer Night’s Dream
“A rose by any other name…”
Tragedy
Things associated with the Internet
Search Engine
Wiki
RSS
Home Page
A I M
Blog
Link
Things associated with math
Circumference
Diameter
Square
Rectangle
Right triangle
Hypotenuse
Rhombus
1
Famous
people
6 5
3 2
7 4
Famous
people
1
4
3
6 5
7
2
Math Terms
14/16
1/3 3/4
6/12
1
6 5
3 2
7
4
1
6
5
3 2
7
4
Countries of
the World
1 2
6
5
3
4
States
7
U.S. Presidents
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
Bill Clinton
Dwight Eisenhower
1 2
6
5
3
4
7 World War 2
1
2
6 5
3
4
7
1 2
6 5
3 4
7
1
2
6
5
4 7
3
Tourist
Attractions
1 2
6
5
3
4
7 World War 2
1 2
6 5
3 4
7
Things associated with physics
Force and motion
Isaac Newton
Gravity
Pulleys
Matter
Friction
Magnet
Things associated with England
Tea
Princess Diana
Big Ben
Castles
London
BBC
Henry VIII
respiratory system, circulatory system,
nervous system, skeletal system
Lake Michigan, Gulf of Mexico, Nile River,
English Channel
cell, mitosis, nucleus, cell wall
sun, Mercury, solar system, meteor
respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous
system, skeletal system
Lake Michigan, Gulf of Mexico, Nile River,
English Channel
cell, mitosis, nucleus, cell wall
computer, mouse, blog, wiki
United States, Canada, England, India
inch, foot, yard, mile
Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Chicago
oxygen, carbon dioxide, helium, neon
Rocky Mountains, Appalachian Mountains,
Alps, Pyrenees
Sun, Mercury, solar system, meteor
Fraction, 3/10, numerator, 4/5=8/10
Drums, cymbals, marimba, tambourine
Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Alabama
Symmetrical, parallel, perpendicular, congruent
Solar system, meteor, orbit, Saturn
Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Sadam Hussein
England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales
World War II, Vietnam, Revolutionary War,
Desert Storm
Cuba, Spain, Japan, Chile
Plot, character, setting, author
respiratory system, circulatory system,
nervous system, skeletal system
tornado, cold front, hurricane, sleet
Lake Michigan, Gulf of Mexico, Nile River,
English Channel
cell, mitosis, nucleus, cell wall
Percussion
Instruments Capital
cities
Things associated
with A Tale of
Two Cities
Parts of speech
Bays Things Vincent
Van Gogh would say
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Lakes Parts of a
cell
Lines from
Shakespeare plays
Music composers
Books by
Mark Twain
Countries in Africa
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Terms & Details
Coffee
Drinks
Measure-
ments of a
circle
Things associated
with the
Renaissance
Characteristics of mammals
Books by John
Steinbeck
International Organizations
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Synonyms for
“happy” Titles of
plays
Things that
happened in
the 1970’s
Shapes
Things
associated with
Harry Truman
Amphibians
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Super Bowl
winners
Things a
paleontologist
would say
Things that
happened in
the 1960’s
Battles
Things associated
with To Kill a
Mockingbird
Ceremonies
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Ways of
walking
Systems
Lines from
poems
Things that an economist would say
Things found in ancient
Egypt 50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Sources of energy
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
Things that
are living Liquids
Prime numbers
Parts of
the digestive
system
Things that conduct
heat
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Adverbs
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
Fractions
Parts of
the solar
system
Countries in Asia
Punctuation marks
Sources of
energy
Types of Internet sites
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Things in the
sky Famous
generals
Positions in the
President’s
Cabinet
News anchors
Types of
sentences
TV Westerns
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Missions in
California Fairy tales
Locations of
Olympics
Things associated
with the stock
market
Provinces of
Canada
“Wonders of the World”
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Sports that are
played with
rackets
Countries in
South America
Things that
magnify
Styles of architecture
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100 POINTS 100 POINTS
200 POINTS
Vocabulary Terms & Phrases
Artists
Theories about
why dinosaurs
became extinct
Things associated with “yesterday”
Guaranteed and viable curriculum
Motivation
Jeopardy
Instruction
Graphic organizer
Home environment
Feedback
Rivers
Nile
Missouri
Thames
Hudson
Amazon
Mississippi
Swanee
Things associated with oceans
Waves
Moon
Algae
Pacific
Ships
Tropical fish
George Clooney
Things associated with plants
Photosynthesis
Foliage
Stems
Fertilizer
Chlorophyll
Pollinate
Chia pets
Things associated with
earthquakes and volcanoes
Fault
Richter
Lava
Mt. St. Helens
Tsunami
San Andreas Fault
Dormant
Things associated with
addition/subtraction
Sum
Total
Minus
Addend
Whole number
Equals
Plus
Things associated with the Internet
Search Engine
Wiki
URL
Home Page
A I M
Blog
Link
Artists
Van Gogh
Michelangelo
Picasso
Monet
Rembrandt
Da Vinci
Grandma Moses
Things associated with punctuation
Comma
Semi-colon
Quotation marks
Period
Exclamation point
Hyphen
Colon
Authors/Poets
John Steinbeck
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Stephen King
Emily Dickinson
Ernest Hemingway
Maya Angelou
Acute
Right
Hypotenuse
Obtuse
Sides
Pythagorean theorem
Equilateral
Things associated with triangles
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