Jamie, I've taught med term a few times and one of the most useful activities that I found was to buy some giant LEGO's and put word parts on to teach Lego prefixes on some, root words on others, and suffexes on others. Once I had that done on the other side I would put the meaning of the word parts that was there than that I would have students build words utilizing the Lego's. It's amazing what happens when you have a bunch of adults sitting on the floor building things with Legos and building medical words.
I've also what times put on an episode of house or another medical show that uses a lot of medical terminology and have the students write down all of the medical words that are used then after the movie is over figure out what the words are by breaking them down into their component parts.
I also give them a project to build a game that they could use to teach others medical terminology. Some used games like concentration, pictionary, some made scrap books, other took games like candyland or others and modifed them. One took powerpont and made a game similar to are you smarter than a 5th grader and another made so you want to be a millionaire inito medical term learning experience. They had to come up with the rules for the game and had the students play it duruing class.
There are so many ways you canuse activites and games to break up lectures and create a great learning environment for the visual, kenitic and auditory learners
