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For an interactive learning experience, create a scavenger hunt that challenges students to find or collect:. Sometimes you just need to dance it out. For a quick brain break, put on some fun music and encourage your students to stand up and dance away — the sillier the better. When the music pauses, they have to freeze in place.

Any student who unfreezes before the music starts again is out! GoNoodle is a tried-and-true favorite of many teachers. Colorful videos and engaging activities promote social emotional skills , active living and academic success! Not only does yoga help students stretch out the wiggles in their body, it can also help cultivate mindfulness! Lead your class through some easy stretches as a fun mid-day break or to get them energized first thing in the morning.

Based on the game show, Minute to Win It games challenge the whole class to complete simple or not-so-simple tasks in under a minute. These interactive games help promote a little healthy competition in your classroom and provide hours of fun. Set up a couple different stations and divide the class into small groups. Rotate groups through each activity so the whole class gets a chance to participate.

Want to inspire some classroom unity and get students to work as a team? These games encourage students to put their heads together and solve problems. If you have a new class or a group of students who need to get to know each other, icebreaker activities can help:. Short and easy, icebreaker games are a fun way for students to introduce themselves. Ideas include:. Turn your classroom into the set of a gameshow and bring out your best host impression!

Divide the class into two teams and challenge each to answer questions and earn points. Plus, there are lots of free templates to help you build your game quickly.

This is a simple game, but great for teaching students the importance of communication and working together. Have students stand in a close circle with their arms out in front of them. The goal is to organize themselves into a perfect circle without letting go. For an extra challenge, time your students to see how long it takes them to untangle their knot! This game also promotes coordination and teamwork! Students stand in a circle and join hands with the person next to them.

The objective of the game is to communicate with team members and pass the hula hoop around the circle without letting go. Have students close their eyes or blindfold them for more difficulty, or divide the class into two teams and race. Tie the strings around the rubber band and divide your class up into small groups of six or whichever number words best.

Each student holds one string and has to help their team stack the cups into a pyramid by using the rubber bands to grab the cups. Remember — no hands allowed, so students will have to communicate and work together to complete the task.

Every classroom is different, so keep trying new classroom activities and customize them to what your students need. Whether you want to engage your students during a lesson, occupy them during an indoor recess or build teamwork skills, classroom games can help you keep activities educational and fun. That sounds like a win-win to us! Prodigy Math Game helps teachers engage students through the power of game-based learning. Success in Prodigy requires students to correctly answer curriculum-aligned questions adapted to their learning needs, and gives teachers more ways to make math class fun!

Sign up for your free teacher account today to get started. Contents Math games English and spelling review games Active games Team-building games. These mazes are good way for upper elementary students to practice skills associated with theme without students having to read a lot of text. Having students sort short stories by theme is an incredibly beneficial activity for students that are struggling to determine the theme on their own.

Often, this type of game is played like a matching game, where students read a short paragraph and then have to match up the correct theme to the paragraph. This is easier to create, but not as helpful for struggling students. Instead, create a game where only 3 - 4 themes are included. For each theme, include several short stories that have that theme. Then, have students sort the stories based on theme. Having students think about how completely different stories can have the same theme just based on the plot and lessons learned will really help students better understand what a theme is.

If your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students need extra practice with this skill, this no prep theme freebie might help. One of the best ways to have upper elementary students apply what they know about theme is to have them write stories with a theme!

However, this can be an overwhelming task for students, especially if they don't enjoy writing. Some students will benefit from a little scaffolding instead of being given free rein. Provide students with the theme of their story, as well as ideas for characters and settings if they are having trouble coming up with their own.

But as the students play more, I pretty much let them create their own rules. This can be played in groups or partners. Each group, individual, or partner set tries to View Item words A. I was thinking of making a gameboard similar to the homeworkoply gameboard and call it ARopoly instead.

The students would get to roll the dice each time they read and took a test on an AR book. I think this would really motivate the students to read.

I actually made my board for the game the other day and it looks pretty good. Go to the website listed above and look at the Homeworkopoly game for an idea what it looks like. I haven't actually filled in each of the spaces on the board yet, but I was planning to make a "GO" space and let the students collect 5 dolphin dollars when they pass go,in the next corner it will say "Catch a ride on the school bus" Don't be SorryRead!

If you went to yard sales you might be able to get lots of old games to display around the room. I think this idea is very clever, and it is very approperate for 5 and 6th grades. Good luck View Item proteacher. Do not copy, reproduce or transmit. G Kids love to play games. What a great theme to do in your classroom. Game Theme Posted by:Krissy Sign Up Free.

View Item words. I just started a list of board games: One of these could be for your behavior system if you were going to use one Maybe you could somehow use the game "Sorry! Last year I found this bb idea on the internet. View Item. I've never done this, but I loved using homeworkopoly in my classroom last year. Check out the fabric section at Wal-Mart, too. How about of using the game 'Guess Who? I did a very basic game theme this year with my kids. We're using this in our great room with the caption "Knowledge is the name of the game.

I did a board game theme last year in my classroom. I have used Monopoly as the organizational tool for my writer's workshop. Boggle bulletin board is similar to the game boggle. I had a brainstorm the other day and thought of a neat idea for motivating students to read AR books and take tests.



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