2023 Update
As I was going through the powerpoints to fix typos, I noticed that there were some ALT specific questions that I didn't even think to point out when I originally uploaded last year! Specifically, the 5th year powerpoints ask "What do you want for your town?" but the original file has my town's name.
The 6th year powerpoint has a question that now says "Where is (ALT's name) from?" and originally had my name in it. It also asks the students what days they have English class. Please adjust these questions to fit for you, otherwise you may have some confused children on your hands.
Thank you everyone for the postive feedback and I am glad people are enjoying this game!
Update
I posted this to ask for help on finishing this activity. (I erased what I had written so that this page wouldn't go on forever.) I got a lot of great ideas from UonumaRobert so a huge thanks to them! Unfortunately I had some other work stuff come up this week and I really didn't have a lot of time to change things around so I decided to carry through with what I had. I appreciate the feedback and hope to work more of it in if I do a rework for next year, especially to do separate score cards. I did also fix the hyperlink issues, thank you for pointing that out!
About:
This is a haunted house Halloween game I made for my 5th and 6th graders. Explore the house to get points and see what monsters are inside! This is a review of units 1-5 and a lot of the questions are from New Horizons but can be edited for other classes too.
I made the images myself through Canva, and the door gifs are Resident Evil gifs I found online. Even though this activity didn't turn out how I expected I am pretty excited to see how the kids like it on Monday. I haven't played this with a class yet so I am sorry if there are any mistakes I have missed. I’m sure everyone already has their Halloween plans sorted, but I figured it wasn't much use to post the final product after Halloween.
The door gifs only appear the first time you enter a room, but feel free to remove them if you find them too distracting. There is also music playing throughout the game that you can remove as well, or cut the second song so there is only music at the beginning and end.
How to play:
Divide your class into 3-4 teams. Keep points on the board. Easy questions are worth 1 pt, medium are 2 pts, and hard are 3 pts.
Go to the second slide to see a map of the house. Janken to let a team pick a room and question.
Click on the room you want to go to, and then click anywhere to bring up an easy, medium, and hard button. Click on the button to bring up the respective question. Click on the question to show the answer. A ghost will appear that you can click on to clear the question and go back to the map. The buttons will not disappear, but will be crossed off so that you know what questions have been asked when you go back to the room.
When you've done all the questions, clicking on the background of the map takes you to the end screen. Clicking on any of the mummy tsumtsums will take you back to the map if you clicked on a room by mistake.
It's up to you how you run the game. I like Robert's idea of running it as a race and speak/ jeopardy activity, where the first team with the answer gets the points, then picks the next question. I think it's more engaging to do it this way but we have done race and speak style games before with my class and some teams felt they were being missed. I may try it again, but I also might do one team can try to answer at a time and have teams go in order.
Lastly, I think the difficulty of the questions can be pretty subjective and depends on each class, so please change questions as needed. If you want to edit questions the question and answer cards are stacked from bottom to top:
easy q -> easy a -> medium q -> medium a -> hard q -> hard a
I think the easiest way to edit is move the door gif completely to the side, then move the cards to the side until you reach the one you want to change. Then slide everything back to the center.
Sorry for the long explanation! I hope you enjoy this if you use it! Happy Halloween!!
added no music versions to help a bit with download size
It looks great. Cute and creepy at the same time. I had no problems with the gifs on my work computer and its about four years old. I noticed for some reason if you click any of the background it takes you to the furnance room. Maybe change that so clicking the background takes you to the game over slide and then have a hyperlink to take you back. As for three levels of difficult I'd maybe have the game played out in three levels, three haunted mansions. The first has the easier questions,
once that is done go to the second identical mansion but maybe with a picture in the sky of a different owner. And then finally end with the third highest difficult if there is time. For points rather than fixed points for difficult level make a set of point cards to accompany the game. Then when each group finishes each question they can pick a card and get points. As the difficulty increases add cards of higher value or greater risk.
If you do it as a Race and Speak activity, one team picks the room but every team gets a chance to send a member up with an answer, participate in the activity, get points and then move onto the next room with the next team picking it. If the round one questions seem too easy for a class you can jump ahead to the next mansion with higher level questions. Anyway, food for thought.
Wow this looks amazing! It shows the amount of time and effort you dedicated to making this game. I can't wait to use it in class and adapt the same concept to my own games. Thanks again.
These are amazing! I will def use these for my JHS as a review.
thanks! i love it i cant wait to use it.
So much went into this game, my 6th grade teachers are excited for it! Heads up, there is a typo. You wrote October 31th instead of October 31st in the HHG6 power point.
That's wonderful, mate. I was thinking of a similar game, but can't do as well as that.
Thank you everyone! I am glad to hear people are enjoying this activity!
@GinaG thank you for finding that! I fixed and re-uploading the 6th year ppts.
Also, looking through this again, I just noticed the kitchen has a question about where I am from. Please don't forget to change it to your own name (^_^;)
Coming back to comment the game was a success :) "Blood" seemed to be the most challenging question lol! It was so successful that my 6th grade teachers want me to make a Christmas version xD
I played it where each team takes a turn but for next time my teacher wants to implement ways to lose or steal points to raise the stakes as in one class it was basically one team cleaning house.
Thanks again, hopefully I can learn from your power point and figure out a Christmas version soon ^-^
Thank you for the presentation, hnnhdwn. I tweaked the mechanics and changed the questions, but I still give you full credit after using this game in class. This and the Pusheen direction game.
I was hoping to play this tomorrow (23rd October) with my elementary combined 5 and 6 grade class. However, and this may be my low skills, it seems to have a bug in the kitchen room. I can click one or two of the options (hard, medium and easy) but once I have done that the other questions don't open properly. I am unable to fix this myself. Tried today but it beats me:)
Hi Joanne! I am so sorry I didn't see your comment until now! Can you tell me which of the powerpoints the bug was in? I took a look at them all and didn't seem to have that problem but maybe I missed something. Sorry that the powerpoint didn't work in time for your class!