Directions for playing the memory game Simply mix all the cards and put them face down, side by side in a large square. Up to four people can play. The first person turns over any two cards, trying to find a match. If the cards match the player get to keep them and turn over two more cards. If the cards don't match, the cards are turned back over and it is the next person's turn.
Play continues around the circle until all the cards are gone.
The person with the most cards wins the game. We printed the cards and then pasted them on old playing cards. While studying famous peopleour fifth graders created the biography memory game. The challenge of this version of the game is to know the correct facts about the famous people included in the game. Corin Richards is a Educational Technology Specialist at Lincoln Elementary in Corvallis, Oregon.