Tournament Lessons

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

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The Resiliency Tournament

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

Fraction Ordering Tournament

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

The Tournament of Biomes

Want to move beyond memorizing the characteristics of biomes? In this lesson, students work through a Tournament of Biomes, explaining which biome wins in each round (based on criteria you choose). In the end, they crown a 👑 Champion Biome!

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!

Tournament of Presidents

So who was the strangest of these eight presidents?

Parts of Speech Tournament

Which part of speech is most useful? Interesting? Strange?

Habitable Planets and Moons Tournament

Which object in the solar system is most habitable?

Animal Adaptation Tournament

Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?

Tournament of Ancient Inventions

Which of these inventions of the ancient world is most influential? Least useful today? Most taken-for-granted?

Precipitation Tournament

Eight types of precipitation battle it out in this tournament.

Exploration Technology Tournament

Which of these pieces of exploration technology is most important? Most underrated? Most long-lasting?

The 8th Wonder of the World Tournament

Which of these eight wonders deserves to become the Eighth Wonder of the World!?

Tournament: 8 Wonders of the Solar System

Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?

Plant Adaptation Tournament

Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?

Natural Disasters Tournament

Who will win the tournament of Natural Disasters!?

Types of Energy Tournament

Which type of energy will win the tournament!?

Domesticated Animals Tournament

Which domesticated animal will win the tournament?

Tournament of Not-So-Famous Inventors

Which inventor and invention will win the tournament?

Tournament of Mythological Creatures

Who will win the tournament of mythological creatures!?