Final Proj

For my final project I'm making a game of . I feel that this will bring the perfect blend of knowledge and group participation. In preparation, I will make upwards of 30 cards with a term or concept on each. Also, the card will have certain banned words. Example:

Word:
Cyborg
Banned words:
Robot
Blade Runner
Harrison Ford
Manifesto

So, how to play is that everyone is split up into two groups. One team chooses a representative, who goes up to the front of the class and draws a card while I am starting a stopwatch for 15 seconds. Say they draw the Cyborg card. They would have to get their team to guess the word and NOT use any of the banned words. For example they could say, "Transhumanists wished that this word would make the place a better world". If someone on their team guessed it, the team would get a point. However, if the person ran out of time or they used a banned word, Example: "Blade Runner with Harrison Ford tried to kill these half robots some feminist wrote a manifesto about" They would not get a point. Then the other team goes.

What I was hoping for with this project is that students would have to draw from a deeper well of knowledge to understand and remember concepts. Basically like a timed, oral test in front of people. But fun! Teams can make up their own related names, and I think if I split up the class and spread out all the really "excitable people" evenly, I could really get a positive, fun response.