Bingo card generator

The cards

4 cards · 41 items · 24 spaces per card

Four cards are already made from a science list. Print them, or swap the list for your own first.

Change what is on the cards

15 ready-made lists, each with enough unique items for a 5 by 5 card.

Replace the list

Short, familiar science calls for upper elementary classrooms.

41 unique items. A 5 by 5 card with a free centre needs at least 24.

Bingo caller

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    The controls needed to change, reshuffle, and call these cards did not start. What is finished and waiting is the other game a caller runs for a room: 51 quiz boards, each written out with its clues and its host key.

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    Choose a useful item bank

    Use more items than there are spaces on one card. That creates variation and reduces simultaneous wins. For vocabulary bingo, decide whether the caller reads the term, a definition or an example.

    Check the print

    Print one test card at 100% scale before running a class set. Long phrases need more cell space, so use a 3 by 3 or 4 by 4 grid when the wording cannot be shortened.

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