Games in the classroom are one of the most effective means of engagement and behaviour management. Every teacher scours the Internet for ways to mix up their lessons and teach material in an entertaining way. High-paced games and mindful activities have actually been proven to reinforce material you may have already taught, or to introduce new material without losing the attention of your students after five minutes!
10 Awesome Games & Activities to Make Your Classroom Fun
- Pictonary
- Whiteboard bull's-eye
- Hungey Caterpillar's
- Jenga vocabulary Challenge
- Spinzone trivia
- Sums at Sea
- Secret Detective
- Speak,Clue,act!
- Beat the buzzer
- Pass the Chicken!
All of these games can be played, with varying degree of difficulty, with younger kindlers to older high school students. It’s the subject matter and the materials that are used that make the difference to the students who are playing the games.
Field Day or End-of-the-Day Classroom Games
Do you need ideas for occupying students during the last ten minutes of a busy day? Perhaps you want to reward kids at the end of a particularly productive day. These ten games are great for end-of-the-day fun. You can link many of them to classroom curricula too. These games are also great to use for your Field Day activities!
Buzz: A counting game. Have the students sit in a circle. The students pass the ball around while counting (1, 2, 3, etc.). When the number reaches 7 the S must say buzz. Any number with a 7 in it must be buzz (7, 17, 27, 37, etc.) and any multiple of 7 must be buzz (14, 21, 28, 35, etc.).
Category Tag: Choose a category (e.g. food, weather, transportation, etc.). Students run around the room and the teacher chases them. When the teacher tags a S s/he must name a word from the category (e.g. food: cheese, fish, bread, etc.). Give a time limit to answer (e.g. 5 seconds). If the S cannot answer or says a word that has already been used s/he sits out until the next round.
Last Letter, First Letter: (A popular Japanese game called Shiri Tori). Have the students sit in a circle with you. Teacher starts by saying a word, then the S to the T's right must make a word that starts with the last letter of the word that the teacher said (e.g. bus --- steak --- key --- yellow --- etc.). Continue around the circle until someone makes a mistake.
Number Group Game: Play some music and have your students walk around the classroom. Stop the music suddenly and call out a number (up to the number of students in your class). The students must quickly get together in a group of that number. Any students who didn't make it sit out until the next round.
Memory
Memory can really be looked at as a simplified version of bingo. This works great with phonics, simple math expressions, for ESL students (think images and words), spelling, and states with capitals.
I don’t think there are as many educational memory games out there as are bingo games, so it might take some time on your part to do the construction. But once you make it and laminate – BAM, you have it forever.
Jeopardy
This is such a fun game. There are already lots of middle and high school teachers who utilize Jeopardy type games. And why not? It’s great to use as a studying tool before a big test. It also works so well for when preparing for the end of a unit, midterms, or finals.
There are plenty of free Jeopardy templates for teachers available online. This helps make prep time for this game more manageable.
If you play Jeopardy enough times, you could actually make it a project for small groups of students to create their own component of Jeopardy, under a certain heading, and have the whole class play together. This game is perfect for studying social studies, the arts, science, history, novels…the list goes on and on.
Fast Facts
This game consists primarily of giving students 100 simple math problems and a limited amount of time to use them. I use this daily with my elementary students and tutoring students.
The whole idea is to get your students to understand these math problems so well that it becomes rote. For 100 problems for a 3rd grader, give them 5 minutes; a 4th grader gets four minutes; a 5th grader gets three minutes; and a 6th grader gets one minute.
This same idea can be applied to pronunciation of words. With two students, give one a timer and the other has 100 words that they have to say correctly. The same time structure applies too. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s a great way to work on a skill.
Scavenger Hunts
Scavenger hunts are a lot of fun, but they definitely take some planning to get set up. The great thing is, they can be used for nearly every subject.
I like to set up a scavenger hunt for when starting new social studies, science, or reading units. I go through the material beforehand and I create questions, fill-in-the-blank, pictures, dates, people – anything that I want my students to really know before we get into the unit. And then I put them into small groups and they have to search the textbooks, encyclopaedias’, online, and around the classroom for the clues.
If I’m really on my game (meaning I’ve had enough coffee) I try to get other classrooms involved and have students go to visit there for clues. It’s so much fun. I’ve tried doing scavenger hunts when doing nature units – but that does present the logistics on keeping an eye on all students, so plan accordingly if you decide to go that route.
Student-made Games
Who doesn’t like to showcase their skills, knowledge, or talents? Everyone does. Which is why it is so much fun to see your students get to shine when they create the games that are used in class?
This is something I normally don’t start to do until after the winter break; mainly because I want the chance to utilize a variety of games in my class long enough that my students really understand how to implement their own versions.
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