How To Join A Kahoot Game

What Are the Most Popular Lessons on Kahoot?

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Kahoot! Is a popular game-based learning app that's primarily used in schools, but can be used at home as well. The premise of Kahoot! Is to keep education fun and play-based, so that students enjoy learning. Teachers and parents can create engaging and interactive quizzes in a matter of minutes or. Or, they can select one from a bank of quizzes already created.

Kahoot! Is not just for students—it can easily be used to create entertaining trivia games for parties, work events, and more. However, it's mainly aimed at bolstering classroom curricula in the earlier grades. Read on to learn more about Kahoot! and what its most popular lessons and quizzes are.

Connect to Kahoot!

To use Kahoot!, sign up for free on the website or the downloaded app. After you do, you'll be walked through how to create your first Kahoot! It will create the diagrams, graphics, and question formats for you. You just have to create the questions and decide how many you'd like to have in your Kahoot!

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Although Kahoot! Is typically used solo for educational purposes, quizzes can also be enjoyed as part of a group. For multiplayer fun, you'll need to create a PIN and give it to each participant who wants to test their knowledge against you and your crew. After the quiz is over, participants can share their results. Kahoot! is free, but if you sign up for premium services, you do get more access to advanced features through the app or on the website.

How to Get Quiz Ideas and Inspiration on Kahoot!

The Kahoot! Guide to Creating & Playing Learning Games has a few starter topics and question and answer banks to get you going. Among the topics they suggest for your first educational Kahoot are: High School Math: Quadratic Equations; Who, What, Wear: British Fashion in the 1930s and 1940s; Martin Luther King; Science: Periodic Table Mania; English: Figuring Out Figurative Language; and Music: Learning to Read Notes on the Treble Clef.

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Kahoot! developers suggest using it in different ways in the classroom. For instance, You can offer a quiz before you teach the material to see how much the students know (this is referred to as a "Blind Kahoot!') or use it as a review after you've taught the material to ensure that the students retained it. There are many different PDFs and guides on the Kahoot! website instructing educators (and parents) how to use Kahoot! and keep it fun.

There are also many different ways you can use Kahoot!, though many of them require upgrading the premium packages. One popular upgrade option is to use Kahoot! through screen sharing or live streaming. For instance, if you are in a situation where distance-learning or online learning is a requirement, educators and parents can use Kahoot! to keep brains sharp. You can also use Kahoot! In "ghost mode" to beat your own previous high scores.

What Are the Most Popular Kahoot! Topics?

Because Kahoot! is game-based, there really aren't "lessons" to be taught. Kahoot! is always used in a quiz, question and answer format. However, Kahoot! creators can decide to have their quizzes made public on the app and on the website, which makes them searchable. Other users can look to these searchable quizzes for ideas, or they can play them for fun. In 2016, Kahoot! did look at data to see what the most popular searches were by search term. The most popular term was math, followed by multiplication, fractions, science, English, and geography. So, when educators and students went looking for Kahoots, these were the topics everyone was interested in.

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