Tournament Lessons
Encourage research, debate, and open-ended thinking with these academic tournaments.
Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.
Which set of fractions would be the trickiest to order from least to greatest? Let's have a tournament!
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!
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!
So who was the strangest of these eight presidents?
Which part of speech is most useful? Interesting? Strange?
Which object in the solar system is most habitable?
Which animal has the most interesting, most valuable, or strangest adaptations?
Which of these inventions of the ancient world is most influential? Least useful today? Most taken-for-granted?
Eight types of precipitation battle it out in this tournament.
Which of these pieces of exploration technology is most important? Most underrated? Most long-lasting?
Which of these eight wonders deserves to become the Eighth Wonder of the World!?
Which location is the most wondrous place in the solar system?
Who will win in a tournament of eight plants with Interesting adaptations!?
Who will win the tournament of Natural Disasters!?
Which type of energy will win the tournament!?
Which domesticated animal will win the tournament?
Which inventor and invention will win the tournament?
Who will win the tournament of mythological creatures!?