Active Games for Teachers
Active Games can be used at the beginning of any lesson or at any time when your class needs a brain break. Physical activity can have a positive impact on the brain and can improve cognition, mood, attention and academic achievement in students.
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Fruit Salad Active Game
A whole class or large group active game that encourages listening skills.
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Decimal Place Value Game – Find A Decimal Who...
Explore decimal place value with your students using an interactive whole-class game.
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Arrays Beanbag Toss
Engage your students with a fun, whole-class game when learning about arrays.
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Descriptive Adjectives SCOOT! Game
Build vocabulary and grammar skills with a game of Adjective SCOOT!
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This or That! PowerPoint Game – Contractions
A quiz to consolidate your students' understanding of contractions.
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Shazzam! Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages teamwork.
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Value Your Place Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Top Secret Scavenger Hunt – Estimating Decimal Sums and Differences
Join the decimal scavenger hunt adventure! Download our printable scavenger hunt and guide your students to sharpen their estimation skills by using decimal benchmark values when finding sums and differences.
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Proud to be Me Scoot Game
Engage students in identifying and describing personal identity while also promoting discussion with this active activity.
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I Have, Who Has Prefix Game
Play an exciting game to help your students identify and define words with the prefixes - pre, re, un, and dis.
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What Am I? – Music and Instruments
A fun game for students to identify various musical instruments and terminology.
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Chicken Evolution Active Game
A whole class active game that encourages cognitive processing skills, physical activity and social skills.
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Zip Zap Zoom! Active Game
A whole class game that encourages concentration and listening skills.
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The Team Freeze Frame Active Game
A fun active game that encourages the development of listening skills, creativity, spontaneity and team work.
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Mirror Mirror Active Game
A fun active game that can be played by the whole class in pairs.
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Multiplication Hopscotch Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Equation Tails Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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Stretchy Scoot Relay
A whole class active game to play when learning about the properties of materials.
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Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Roleplay Game
Use this active learning game to allow students to practise communication verbally and nonverbally, and interpret different verbal and nonverbal messages.
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Would You Rather? Books and Reading - Movement Game
Engage your students in thought-provoking discussions and fun exercises in this books and reading edition of 'Would You Rather...?'
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Goods and Services
Practise identifying examples of goods and services with an active game designed to get your students moving and learning.
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Subitise and Exercise
Get active with this subitise and exercise teaching brain break presentation.
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Move It! - Goods and Services PowerPoint Game
Get up and moving with an active game while identifying and describing examples of goods and services.
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Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives – Four Corners Game
Identify common and proper nouns, verbs and adjectives through this elimination-style types of words active game.
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Number Hunt Description Cards
A set of 32 task cards that have students use their knowledge of place value to find specific numbers.
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Australian Gold Rush: Race to Eureka – Game
An interactive gold-panning game in which students explore scenarios of reward, penalisation and inequality.
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Musical Blending Active Game
An active game that allows students to practise using blends and digraphs.
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Grammar Toss Active Game
An active game that allows students to test and build their knowledge of words and parts of speech.
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Let's Spin - Shapes Spinner Activity
Use this colourful 2D shape spinner resource to in whole-class or small-group active learning games.
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Snake Sheds Its Skin Active Game
Take a quick break from learning and encourage teamwork with this fun whole class game.
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Human Knot Active Game
A fun active game for small groups that encourages teamwork.
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Dodging Equations Active Learning
A whole class active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.