The document describes how to create and play a bingo game using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It explains how to generate bingo cards with randomly assigned terms and definitions. To play, students are dealt a card and beans to cover terms as their definitions are called out. The first student to get five terms in a row by covering them with beans wins, if they can then recite the definitions of those terms. The game can be modified by requiring students to fill other patterns like an X or + for a longer game.
The document describes how to create and play a bingo game using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It explains how to generate bingo cards with randomly assigned terms and definitions. To play, students are dealt a card and beans to cover terms as their definitions are called out. The first student to get five terms in a row by covering them with beans wins, if they can then recite the definitions of those terms. The game can be modified by requiring students to fill other patterns like an X or + for a longer game.
The document describes how to create and play a bingo game using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It explains how to generate bingo cards with randomly assigned terms and definitions. To play, students are dealt a card and beans to cover terms as their definitions are called out. The first student to get five terms in a row by covering them with beans wins, if they can then recite the definitions of those terms. The game can be modified by requiring students to fill other patterns like an X or + for a longer game.
1. Do FILE | SAVE AS and name the file with a name descriptive of the subject content of the new game. 2. Bottom Tab to Sheet1 and type in 25 terms with definitions, then click on the PRINT BINGO CARDS button. 3. A set of 25 different bingo cards will be automatically generate along with a calling sheet. HOW TO PLAY 1. Pass out a bingo card and 25 beans to each student. 2. Start at any number on the calling sheet and call out the definition. 3. Students will place a bean on the correct answer on their card. 4. Call out the next definition; continue until the end of the list and then start over. 5. Students shout BINGO whenever they get five beans in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally). 6. First student to get a BINGO wins if he can recite the definitions of his/her bingo terms. 7. If the student fails to give correct definitions then he/she is disqualified and the game continues. 8. For longer game, have students form a crisscross (x) or a plus sign (+) on their card for bingo. WARNING: DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO SHEET2 --- WARNING: DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO SHEET2 Term Definition 640386206.xls Term 1 Term 1 Definition Term 2 Term 2 Definition Term 3 Term 3 Definition Term 4 Term 4 Definition Term 5 Term 5 Definition Term 6 Term 6 Definition Term 7 Term 7 Definition Term 8 Term 8 Definition Term 9 Term 9 Definition Term 10 Term 10 Definition Term 11 Term 11 Definition Term 12 Term 12 Definition Term 13 Term 13 Definition Term 14 Term 2 Definition Term 15 Term 1 Definition Term 16 Term 2 Definition Term 17 Term 1 Definition Term 18 Term 2 Definition Term 19 Term 1 Definition Term 20 Term 2 Definition Term 21 Term 1 Definition Term 22 Term 2 Definition Term 23 Term 1 Definition Term 24 Term 2 Definition Term 25 Term 1 Definition B I N G O Term 25 Term 4 Term 8 Term 12 Term 17