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- Play a Simon-Says game with content built into the game: For teaching a foreign language the teacher could say the word in the foreign language and the students respond with correct movement.
- Ball toss games can be used for review, vocabulary building, storytelling, or self-disclosure.
- Teacher created songs and dance to remember important concepts and facts. Students remember better when words are put to music and movement.
- Students can write new words to the song for content review; then they perform the song with choreography.
- Get physical in other ways, too. Play a tug-of-war game where everyone chooses a partner and a topic from a list that all have been learning. Each person forms an opinion about the topic. The goal is for each student to convince a partner in 30 seconds why his or her topic is more important. After the verbal debate, the pairs form two teams for a giant tug-of-war for a physical challenge. All partners are on opposite sides.