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Tournament Lessons

Encourage research, debate, and open-ended thinking with these academic tournaments.

Science

Tournament of Not-So-Famous Inventors
Tournament of Not-So-Famous Inventors
Which inventor and invention will win the tournament?
Types of Energy Tournament
Types of Energy Tournament
Which type of energy will win the tournament!?
Tournament: 8 Wonders of the Solar System
Tournament: 8 Wonders of the Solar System
Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?
Habitable Planets and Moons Tournament
Habitable Planets and Moons Tournament
Which object in the solar system is most habitable?
Precipitation Tournament
Precipitation Tournament
Eight types of precipitation battle it out in this tournament.

Ecology

Social Studies

Tournament of Presidents
Tournament of Presidents
So who was the strangest of these eight presidents?

Culture and Society

Social Emotional

The Resiliency Tournament
The Resiliency Tournament
Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.

Math

Fraction Ordering Tournament
Fraction Ordering Tournament
Which set of fractions would be the trickiest to order from least to greatest? Let’s have a tournament!

Professional Development

Complex Task: Academic Tournaments
Complex Task: Academic Tournaments
Who would win in the Tournament of Least Useful Geometric Shapes or Bravest Shakespearean Characters? Create an academic tournament and watch your students’ brains sweat!

Language Arts

Parts of Speech Tournament
Parts of Speech Tournament
Which part of speech is most useful? Interesting? Strange?