Tempo Run Game!

I am constantly amazed by how much my students know about technology, especially when it comes to their smartphones. And let's be honest, how many people use their smartphone only for email, news, etc.? Everyone has games on their phones, and for me I could play Temple Run (and it's many versions...personally I love the Brave one...) for hours. So using the fast-paced theme of Temple Run, I made Tempo Run as a game f-or students to build accuracy and speed in identifying pitches on the treble clef staff. (I know it has nothing really to do with tempo, but Pitch-Naming Run doesn't quite have the same ring, eh?)

I can't take complete credit for this idea, because I saw it on Pinterest, but I saw it and thought, "Hey, my kids would LOVE this!" The original post (link found below) was to an actual computer program and powerpoint, which would have been useless to me because I wouldn't be able to download a program on my school laptop and I don't use PowerPoint. So I took the main concept of the game and created an ActivInspire flipchart for the game. In the game there are two stages, each has a time limit of one minute to correctly name all the pitches. Stage one has 10 pitches and stage two has 15. In order to pass a stage, the student must correctly identify all pitches by their letter name within the time limit. At first I was using the timer on my phone to time the length of one minute for each stage and then I thought, "This would be even cooler if I used the running music from Temple Run!" So after some digging, I found the running music from the game and IT IS EXACTLY ONE MINUTE. Goodbye timer!

Since this might be easy for some students, I am working on more stages and will update soon!

Enjoy! :)

Click Here to download Tempo Run from Promethean Planet

Original Link to Game (a paid download from Teachers Pay Teachers)