Game | Who Am I? Important People in History Game

This game is intended to be used to review all of the important people in history from the French and Indian War to Reconstruction.

There is a printable and digital version.

The game includes a playing card that lists clues to reveal an important person in history. The people listed are specific to the Social Studies Georgia Performance Standards key people for 5th grade and is a great test prep review for standardized testing.

How to Play (Printable)

1. Cut apart each of the cards of people so that they are like playing cards.
2. Shuffle the cards and turn them upside down in a pile.
3. Separate your class into teams (however many you would like – Terry prefers 2, but you can do more).
4. Choose a player from the first group to come up and read the clues to their team. They finish with, “Who am I?” and their team must guess the answer. If someone from their team guesses correctly, that team gets 2 points. If they are wrong, the next team up has a chance to get 1 point if they answer correctly. If they get it correct, they still get their turn next. If they were incorrect when trying to earn the point, the next group in order (if there are more than 2 teams) will get their chance to get a point. Continue playing in this way until you have completed all of the cards.
5. Whichever team has the most points at the end, wins.

Tips for Digital Use

Assign the slideshow to students so that they can review key terms
use in class or on Zoom by presenting the slideshow (the first slide has the clues and the second slide reveals the answer).

What You Get

There are 23 people (23 cards and Google Slides) and there is an extra blank page/slide in case you have more people you would like to add. The answer for each person is located on the same card as the clues so that the person reading the card has the answer.

People included: King George III, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Paul Revere, Black regiments, James Madison, Lewis and Clark, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, John Brown, and William T. Sherman.