Living memory Materialer: None Space requirements: Students stand in a small area where there should be room for movement. Instructions: The students act as living cards that go together in pairs, just like the game ‘snap’. One example of a theme could be sports activities and then the students would have to find another person doing …
Fruit Salad Materialer: None Space requirements: Students sit in a circle on chairs or stand by individual cones, pieces of paper which indicate a place. Instructions: Students sit around a circle on chairs with one student standing in the middle. All students are given a fruit to be by the teacher, an apple a pear …
Slap a word Materialer: A pair of flyswatters Space requirements: Can be done in the classroom Instructions: Each group stand in a row three meters from the board and each group are given a flyswatter. The teacher writes numbers from 1-30 on the board or on cardboard. The teacher or a student says a sum …
Do you like your neighbour Instructions: The students sit on chairs in a circle with one student standing in the middle of the circle. Instead of chairs, each student could also stand next to a cone/piece of paper to signal their seat. The student in the middle asks a random student from the circle: ‘do …
Frisbee-golf Instructions: A golf course is made either in a hall or outside by placing a number of cones and/or hula-hoop rings in different places. The cones represent the holes of a golf course. The students are working either individually or in groups. The aim is to finish the course with the fewest possible throws …
Tic tac toe xl Instructions: The rules are just like the normal game of tic tac toe where two people compete to get three in a row. The difference is that the activity takes place in a larger format using nine cones to illustrate the squares. Each team has three bibs in their respective colours …
Quiz tag Instructions: The students are split into two groups and stand opposite each other with two meters distance. The teacher then asks an academic question. One group is ‘yes’ and the other group is ‘no’. If the answer to the question is yes, the ‘yes-group’ tries to catch the ‘no-group’ and vice-versa. The students …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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