Image Match
What does the resource do?
Triptico’s Image Match is a game which challenges students to think in a creative way. It also encourages interesting and illuminating group discussion.
How does it work?
The teacher prepares the game by typing the six categories that will be randomly allocated to the teams. These could be characters from a play or important historical figures for example.
The task for each player is to select the five images that they feel best represent a particular category. Points are awarded if players ‘match’ their images (with extra points for matching images in the same order).
However, the real aim of the game is to encourage students to explain why they chose a particular image and to discuss their ideas with other people in the class.
How can I use it?
As a teacher of English Literature, I used this resource as a means of examining key characters in a novel or play.
Comments
Is it possible to be able to choose the image bank ie add and delete?
It is not currently possible to do this – however, it is something I could look to add in the future.
We can run training courses during which we will create custom resources for schools – and a ‘personalised’ version of this resource is something we could create for you then. If this is something you would be interested in, please contact us.
Hope this helps, David.
I would love to be able to add images to allow this activity to fit into other curriculum areas. For example, if the categories were types of habitat the images could be types of creatures found in various habitats and the food, shelter, and space needed for each (including an image of water).
Hello Cathy,
Thanks for your comments.
You raise some good ideas – I will try to make some time to work on the resource but am really busy at the moment.
I think that, as an English teacher, I intentionally set out to use images that were ‘vague’ and open to interpretation – rather than specific to a particular topic. The aim of the resource was to encourage more abstract thought, but I can see that there is scope for the resource to be used in other ways.
Thanks again for posting and I hope that you are finding the resources to be useful,
David
Been examining the Image Match and would also like to be able to add a few images. I understand the goal to keep the images vague to encourage creative thinking but for ESL students and lower achieving students would like them to achieve some success when competing against more able students.
Thanks for your comments Amanda…
As you say, the images are intentionally vague, but I can see the benefits of having more structured images for ESL students.
However, I am not sure that adapting the Image Match resource would be the best way to achieve this. Perhaps I will have time in the future to create a new image resource aimed specifically at language teaching.
If you – or any other visitors to the site – have any ideas about such a resource then please let me know.
Thanks, David.