Wheel of Fortune for Students with Multiple Disabilities

The lessons starts by using a mimeo board and having each student use a laptop computer. The teacher will project the gameboard on the screen and have the students spin a wheel in the classroom with different rewards and prizes on the wheel. Each student will record what they win on the laptop as the game proceeds.

Then each student will have a chance to spin and pick a letter or buy a vowel - just as in the game on television. The students have to do the math themselves with a calcuator when adding and subtracting their winnings.

The categories can be anything that you are currently working on. Therefore, it can be adapted to fit any lesson.

All of the computers would be interacting with the mimeo board at the same time and enable the entire class to work together. It's imperative that each student have access to a laptop to enable this to work the right way. They will each have a voice this way and be included. My students know that they are different and this is a way to make them feel like their atypical peers.

The winning person for each game is marked down and gets five classroom dollars to spend at a later point.