The journalists Instructions: One half of the students are journalists and interview the other half of the students. The teacher asks an academic question or chooses an academic theme. The journalists then chose a ‘victim’ from the other half of the group to be interviewed in relation to the subject. When the time is up …
A quick run around Instructions: The students stand in a circle. In maths each student gets a number 1 and 5. The teacher stands in the middle and gives a calculation. If the result is 2, all the students that are 2 have run around the circle. The quickest to get around the circle gets …
The right order Instructions: 10- 20 cards with different tasks are spread on the floor. The students are in groups and have to arrange the cards in the right order. In maths the cards could be tasks where the results are from 1-10. One calculation could be 6 + 17 – 22 =1. Another could …
Who am I? Materials: Pictures (e.g. from newspapers, magazines, the internet) or notes with academic concepts. Instructions: Each students gets a picture of a person put on their back (in social studies it could be a politician) so they cannot see the picture themselves. The students now walk around each other. The aim is to …
Eeerrr what was that term? Materials: Notes with academic terms Instructions: The students are divided into small teams of 4-8 students who compete against each other. The notes with academic terms are put in hat/ bag or placed on a table. The groups can either compete simultaneously or take turns. A student takes a note …
The clapping game Materials: Notes with academic terms Instructions: The students stand in a circle and do a clapping rhythm: Two claps-pause-two claps etc. With each pause students take it in turns to say the same of a country. If they cannot answer they sit down on the floor. The students could have more than …
What is under the rug? Materials: Different objects and two rugs/ tea-towels/newspapers. Instructions: The teacher places five-ten small objects under two different rugs which are placed at two ends of the room. The objects could be an eraser, a cube, a watch, a photo, a candle etc. The group is divided in two and has …
James Bond in the subjects Materials: None Instructions: The students stand in a circle and one student-‘James Bond’ stands in the middle. James Bond ‘shoots’ a random student and gives them an academic question. In physics/ chemistry it could be about the periodic table and the question could be ‘What is the chemical formula for …
Draw and guess Materials: A black-board/ flip-chart and notes with academic concepts. Instructions: The students are in groups of four to six and take turns to draw academic concepts which the rest of the group have to guess. Examples: Biology – photosynthesis Social studies – 911 Religious Education – atheism Geography – Fossil fuels History …
Who collects the most apples Materials: Pieces of paper scrunched up into balls and possibly a blind for the eyes. Instructions: The paper balls (apples) are randomly placed in a marked area. The students are in pairs and one of them has a blind on. Their partner has to guide the blinded student around the …
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