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What kind of games can i present to my class of medical terminology to help learn the terms in a fun way?

I have a project due for my medical terminology class and I have to use medical terms and make my classmates participate with me while presenting the project. The main idea is to use the medcial terms in a fun way to help lerning the meaning of the word roots, suffixes and prefexes. Thanks.

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1. I don't know any specific games, but etymology is a great way to teach meical terms and any other vocabulary. It is good especially for medicine because so many medical terms are based on Latin words.
2. I'm not sure if it will work with medical terms, but I found unscrambling words a fun way to introduce terms. Also hang man. Maybe a matching game would work for you. For the game, you should have flash cards of root words, meanings, and affixes. You could show your classmates the meaning of the word you are looking for and ask them to match it with the right root word and affixes.
3. try doing jeopardy with the terms that you need to know. i always find that crosswords help. uuuuhhhhh... and or a game where you have a host person say the meaning of a term and you have a bunch of cards with the terms scattered out on a table and you have to find that card before anyone else. good luck!
4. BINGO. it's hysterical. i use it to teach resident rights. just pick a term and put it in each square. you have the cheat sheet which asks/gives the description and they have to call it out. of course, you need different sheets for each individual. the best way to do it is use an Excel program and just cut and paste so you have the answers in different places and each one has a different set of answers, but some mostly similar. Each time a person gets a square throw a piece of chocolate at them. the winner gets a giant bar of chocolate!
5. play a game like Who wants to be a Millionaire? but instead make it medical. Make up three wrong questions and the right one. You could include definations, spellings and word orgin. You could even make up "checks" for the $100--$1,000,000 level. The winner could win a dollar store item. I would get band aids, rubbing alcohol, anti bacterial soap etc. Good luck!!
6. Play Jeopardy. Absolutely works and keeps the students engrossed. I play Jeopardy with my students and they can't wait. Plus, it's a great way to keep them interested. When I'm teaching something particularly difficult I'll say, "Really pay attention here as this'll be on Jeopardy." Just write up a game board on the whiteboard/chalkboard and divide the class into three teams. Let three people go up, one erases the dollar amount he or she wants, and let them and everyone else answer. First one to raise their hand gets to answer. This way everyone is involved, not just the three contestants. Throw in Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy to keep in more interesting. Trust me on this one; it's a blast.
7. What my class does to learn terms is that you will write all the terms on a chalk board,in a random fashion, in no way organized then have the class split into two teams. Have the first person from each team stand up. Give each person a fly swatter. Tell them a definition for one of the terms. They will then have to run over to the chalkboard and hit the right term with the fly swatter. This worked for my Latin class it should work
8. You could create a crossword puzzle. In one of our classes we use a textbook called Medical Terminology: A Programmed Systems Approach. If you could get ahold of a copy of the instructors manual it has a ton of games including everything from hangman, to crosswords, to Jeopardy to Wheel of Fortune. Sometimes Google book search shows you actual pages from the books. That might be a good place to start.