Learning Games
List of activity ideas to keep students interested and excited about learning
Letter
Give students a couple of letters to see what words they can come up with. Who ever comes up with the most wins!
Game
Charades
Ask students to act out a sentence in front of the class containing a vocabulary word. The student can not speak and they can only act. Whoever guesses the word correctly gets to act next.​
Vocab
Guessing
Countries
Ask a list of questions to the class to see who can predict the country. Questions can include
1. Which countries does it border
2. What oceans does it border
3. Which continent is it located in
This can also be used for states, events, etc
Contest
Drawing
building
craft
Challenge your family and friends to see who can complete the activity in 5 minutes!
Countries
Draw
Ask your students to grab some paper and a couple of markers to draw their favorite country or symbols associate with that country. Have a discussion at the end about different cultures around the world
Show
Talent
Attention all performers! This is a chance for you to showcase your talent. Organize a zoom based talent show!
Ask students to create their own cartoon/story about math symbols that they are learning about and present them to the class
Math
Cartoon
Math
The teacher should use concepts based on what has been taught and turn it into a Simon says game. An example is Simon says 2+2 and the students will show the number 4 using their fingers
Simon Says
Tower
Here is a link to a website that teaches you how to create a density tower
https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/density-tower-magic-with-science/
Density
Activities
Here is a link to a list of dinosaur-inspired activities for kids:
https://www.childrens-museum.org/media/uploads/DinosaurActivitiesForEarlyLearners.pdf
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