Description
Help your students practice control with this fun space memory game.
Supplies
How to Play
- Prep work: Print and cut out the space cards at the end of this document. Print enough for each small group to have two sets.
- Split students into several teams, with 4-5 people in each, and give each team two sets of space cards.
- Each round starts with the space cards turned face down in the middle of each team’s circle.
- Call out a sequence of the space cards and announce when it is done. While you call the sequence of cards, students listen carefully and try to memorize the sequence.
- After the sequence has been called, say “Go” and allow teams to put the correct space cards in the correct sequence.
- Each team that gets the sequence right gets a point.
- Continue calling out sequences making it more challenging each time by going faster and calling out longer sequences.
- The team with the most points at the end is the winning team.
Activity Prompts for Reflection
- How did you use your 3 E’s (eyes, ears, and energy) during this activity?
- What was difficult to control about this activity?
- How did you help your team during this activity?
- What emotion(s) did you feel during this activity?
Other Ways to Play
- Pair students up to make it more challenging for students.
- Set a timer for students to organize their space pictures to make this more challenging.
- Start with only a few of the space pictures and gradually give teams more.
- To make it more challenging, tell a story while using the image names throughout. Once you say the end students have to remember the story and where the items came into the story to create the correct pattern.
Additional Notes
- Use the SEL Activity Prompts to tie other SEL competencies to this activity.
- Have a space-themed day or week with the additional space-themed activities linked below:
