This document provides suggestions for using "crazy keywords" to help students learn and remember important scientific terms through engaging wordplay and games. Keywords are creatively spelled or modified to form new words or phrases that hint at their meaning. Students can work individually or collaboratively to design their own crazy keywords, present them to peers, or participate in keyword guessing games led by the teacher as starters or reviews. Examples of modified scientific keywords provided include "O Hello" for OH, "Boring" for BO, and "C M AL" for CHEMICAL.

1. Crazy Keywords Aims: To help students remember scientific key words To help students with spellings of scientific words To engage students in the learning process Methodology – this could be done in a variety of ways. Students could work in pairs to design their own crazy key words and feedback to the class, the teacher could put some on the board as a starter or plenary for students to guess, student could work in groups in the form of a quiz.

2. Here are some to try: O Hello BO Boring

3. CHEMICAL C M AL

4. ELEMENT MENT

5. thesis CITY PHOTOSYNTHESIS

6. COMPOUND CO E

7. MIXTURE VOLTAGE ture ED