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Yes-or-no questions that practice narrowing down by category.
Think of a person, place, animal or term from the unit. The class has twenty yes-or-no questions to work out what it is. Writing the questions on the board helps students build on each other's answers instead of guessing at random.
Live math-fact rounds for the whole class. Students join without accounts and a round takes a few minutes.
Games organized by grade from Pre-K to 6+. A handful are free each week and membership unlocks the rest.
Multiplayer racing-style games for math facts, spelling, typing and geography.
Fast head-to-head practice for math facts or vocabulary.
One student stands beside a seated classmate. Show a flashcard or ask a question. Whoever answers first moves on to stand beside the next student; the other sits. The aim is to travel all the way around the room.
Team quiz games run from the teacher's screen, so students need no devices or accounts.
Make bingo cards from your own words or images, then print them or play online.
Students answer your questions to power arcade-style game modes, so the same question set can be replayed as a different game each time.
A 3D game world covering math and English language arts, with questions that adapt to each student.
Escape-room style games where teams use what they know to solve puzzles and break out.
A counting game for practicing multiples.
Pick a number, say 3. Students count around the circle, but anyone who lands on a multiple of 3 says "buzz" instead. Saying the number, or hesitating too long, means sitting down. Add a second number and "fizz" to make it harder.
A quick word game that works in any subject.
Give a category such as animals, verbs or elements, and a letter. Teams have one minute to write as many matching words as they can. Words that no other team wrote score double.
Acting out words, good for verbs and for young or beginner learners.
A student picks a word card and acts it out without speaking while the class or their team guesses. Use action verbs, animals, jobs or story characters.
Free computer science courses for K–12 with game-like coding puzzles.
Logic, strategy and thinking games more than curriculum drill. Good as a reward or brain break.
Lessons laid out as a path students follow, plus whole-class games that use your own questions.
Vocabulary, grammar and phonics games made for smartboards and touchscreens, with no ads and no account. Includes a team scoreboard.
Game generator covering crosswords, jigsaws, dialogues and more, with a live mode where you host and students play on their devices.
Games alongside grammar lessons and vocabulary practice for English learners.
Interactive games for vocabulary, grammar and sentence building, plus team games made for classroom practice and printable puzzles.
Quick online vocabulary games for young English learners.
A set of quick game templates, including a Family Feud-style survey game for up to six teams and printable tile puzzles.
A movement game that doubles as a multiple-choice review.
Label the corners of the room A, B, C and D. Ask a question, give four answers, and students walk to the corner they think is right. Reveal the answer; those in the wrong corners sit down, or simply start the next round so nobody is out for long.
A trivia game owned by the UN World Food Programme, built around its work to end hunger. Vocabulary is the best-known category.
Games, books and videos you can browse by grade from Pre-K to 8.
A small set of simple games for practicing English vocabulary and grammar.
Games, worksheets and lesson plans made by teachers. The games are designed to be shown to the whole class.
The classic quiet game for the last five minutes.
Seven students stand at the front. Everyone else puts their head down with a thumb up. Each of the seven quietly presses down one thumb, then returns to the front. The chosen students stand and each gets one guess at who picked them. A correct guess swaps them in.
Over 1,000 math games run by a math teacher. It also hosts general arcade games, so point students at a specific game.
Vocabulary review where the class does the explaining.
One student sits facing the class with their back to the board. Write a word or term on the board. The class gives clues without saying the word until the student in the hot seat guesses it. Play in two teams and time each turn to keep it moving.
Build a Jeopardy board in the browser without PowerPoint, or pick from templates other people have made.
The live quiz most others are compared with. Questions show on the main screen and students race to answer on their own devices.
The British Council's games and tongue twisters for children learning English.
Standards-aligned science, history and math games reviewed by educators.
Math games, logic puzzles and problem-solving activities made by an educator.
The classroom edition of Minecraft, with a library of lessons across the curriculum.
Thousands of activities and over 400 games made by an elementary teacher, strong on US history and geography.
NASA's games about space and Earth science for children.
Quizzes, puzzles and fill-in games on animals and the natural world.
Interactive lessons with game activities built in, so the quiz sits inside the lesson instead of after it.
Games built around PBS KIDS characters such as Curious George, Wild Kratts and Daniel Tiger.
Drawing vocabulary on the board for a team to guess.
Split into two teams. One student from a team draws a word from your list on the board while their team guesses within a time limit. No letters, numbers or talking from the artist.
The one to use when students have no devices. Each student holds up a printed card and you scan the room with your phone.
A fantasy role-playing game where students answer curriculum-aligned math questions to win battles.
Over 160 reading, typing and math games made by an elementary teacher, with no sign-up or account needed.
A free block-based programming language. Here students make their own games instead of playing someone else's.
Map quizzes for every continent, with printable versions. Now part of GeoGuessr.
Hundreds of free games, with unusually deep geography and animal sections alongside math and science.
Calms a room down while keeping everyone involved.
Students sit on or stand by their desks and throw a soft ball to each other in complete silence. Talking, a bad throw or a dropped catch means you sit down. To add learning, the catcher must answer a question before throwing.
A whole-class spelling game that needs only a word list.
Students stand in a circle. Call out a word. Each student in turn says the next letter. After the last letter the next student says "sparkle" and the student after that sits down. A wrong letter also means sitting down. Last one standing wins.
Math and reading games with teaching tools for the classroom screen.
Phonics-first reading games from a nonprofit. The learn-to-read program is free and membership adds more.
The whole class plays the same math or spelling game while each student gets questions at their own level.
Art, reading and math games designed for kindergarten to third grade, plus virtual manipulatives that work on a smartboard.
Review questions with a shot at the bin as the reward.
Split the class into teams and ask review questions. A correct answer earns a point and a throw of a paper ball at the bin from a marked line for a bonus point. Teams answering on mini whiteboards keeps everyone working on every question.
More than 1,000 games across math, language arts, science and geography, with a multiplayer section.
Quizizz under its new name. Students work through a quiz at their own pace instead of waiting for the slowest answer.
One activity can be switched between 30+ formats such as quizzes, matching games and flashcards, and printed for offline use.
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