Write away Instructions: The students have to write on the blackboard or on a piece of paper which is hanging on the wall. The students are divided into groups and stand in rows 3 meters from the board. The teacher says an academic question/theme from which the students brainstorm all of the ideas, terminology and …
Body – writing Instructions: The students are in groups and write words by using their body to form the letters. They might be standing or lying on the floor. The aim is for the others in the class to be the quickest to guess the right word. The task could also be to make numbers …
One big chaos Instructions: The teacher places a lot of different cards or pieces on paper randomly on the floor or the tables. The cards could contain many different letters, words or numbers etc. In languages the groups could select a number of letters from which they have to make as many words as possible …
Academic tag Instructions: The game is based on a version of tag where the students that are caught have to stand still with their legs out wide when they are caught. They can be freed by one of the other students crawling between their legs. This version is an academic version where the ‘tag-er’ is …
Speed dating Instructions: Half the students stand in a circle and they turn around with their backs to the middle of the circle. The other half of the students forms a circle around the original circle so that they stand opposite and face to face towards each other. Students are asked to shake hands with …
Dice-running Instructions: 11 are placed in a circle with the numbers 2-12 along with an extra cone in the middle with some dice. Each group roll the 2 dice and if they were to throw a 3 and a 4 the group would run to cone number 7 etc. Several tasks are placed by each …
Answer and throw Instructions: The students stand in a circle and throw a small bowl/bean bag from student to student around the circle. They are only allowed to throw when they have named a concept within a given academic category. Some examples could be nouns, times tables, capitals, birds, politicians, elements etc. if a student …
Around the subject Instructions: 8-12 posts are made in a circle. The students are in groups and find a post each where there is an academic task which needs to be solved in a short amount of time e.g. 3 minutes. When the time is gone, the students run on to the next post. The …
The train station Instructions: The teacher asks an academic question. The students walk around the train station and ask the question to the people they meet on the platform. When the teacher whistles for departure the students return to their seats on the train. The teacher can also give a new task which needs to …
For or against Instructions: The teacher presents an expression which deals with opinions, values or dilemmas. The students now place themselves on a line across the room where one outer point represents ‘completely agree’ the other outer point represents ‘completely disagree’. Some examples of expressions: The cloning of animals is a good idea (biology) The …
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