Rules & Tips for Starting a March Book Madness Competition at your School!
Basic Rules:
- Print or display a bracket and make your selections based on personal experience or by researching the book.
- Use the Google Forms to vote during each round.
- Voting will open and close on certain dates, so make sure to cast your vote before the window closes!
- Winners will be announced after each round, and the updated bracket will be posted online.
- You can play for points or just for fun, if you play for points turn your bracket in to Mrs. Domboski or Mrs. Long. For every winner you guess right, you earn a point. Each round is worth a different amount of points: round 1 = 1 point per winner. Round 2 = 2 points per winner. Round 3 = 3 points per winner....
TIPS:
March Book Madness is a game, meant to be fun. As a teacher, specialist or administrator, you have complete control over how you want your students to participate.
For each round, you could have students play and vote as a whole group or as individuals. You can vote as a class or keep it open to whoever wants to participate can.
Use your classroom to post or display the bracket at the beginning of each round. Consider using a bulletin board or the media center, post signs in the hallway or outside your classroom door.
You can print copies of the brackets for students to use, enough for everyone or just those interested. You can also display a copy in your classroom, media center or online at a teacher webpage.
Allow students in class time to look at brackets and information about the books, or make it an after school experience.
Consider making the game competitive: have students fill out the entire bracket (like the NCAA tournament) and see who "wins" by accumulating the most "win" points. You can see how the NCAA tournament bracket points work by clicking here!
If you don't want to make it a competition, just have students vote and fill in the brackets as you go!
Pair or group students to look up information on each book and then share findings with the whole class, either through a presentation, through GAFE, blogs or social media.
If your students are using social media (Instagram, Twitter, blogs, etc.) Use the hashtag #2016mbm to stay connected with other students and schools!
Looking to seamlessly integrate into your classroom? With BYOD students could scan the qr codes or go to the shortened URLS to vote as part of a class warm up or closing activity OR vote as a whole class, in small groups or pairs. Allot as much time as you want, and have students explore the individual books in ways that fit best for you!
March Book Madness is a game, meant to be fun. As a teacher, specialist or administrator, you have complete control over how you want your students to participate.
For each round, you could have students play and vote as a whole group or as individuals. You can vote as a class or keep it open to whoever wants to participate can.
Use your classroom to post or display the bracket at the beginning of each round. Consider using a bulletin board or the media center, post signs in the hallway or outside your classroom door.
You can print copies of the brackets for students to use, enough for everyone or just those interested. You can also display a copy in your classroom, media center or online at a teacher webpage.
Allow students in class time to look at brackets and information about the books, or make it an after school experience.
Consider making the game competitive: have students fill out the entire bracket (like the NCAA tournament) and see who "wins" by accumulating the most "win" points. You can see how the NCAA tournament bracket points work by clicking here!
If you don't want to make it a competition, just have students vote and fill in the brackets as you go!
Pair or group students to look up information on each book and then share findings with the whole class, either through a presentation, through GAFE, blogs or social media.
If your students are using social media (Instagram, Twitter, blogs, etc.) Use the hashtag #2016mbm to stay connected with other students and schools!
Looking to seamlessly integrate into your classroom? With BYOD students could scan the qr codes or go to the shortened URLS to vote as part of a class warm up or closing activity OR vote as a whole class, in small groups or pairs. Allot as much time as you want, and have students explore the individual books in ways that fit best for you!