Classroom printables, activities & worksheets
Active Games
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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Find A Decimal Who – Whole Class Game
Promote active learning in your classroom with a decimal place value game.
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Escape from Pete's Pumpkin Patch - Halloween Escape Room
Escape the evil witch who turns children into pumpkins at Pete’s Pumpkin Patch using inferencing, problem solving, and grammar skills
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Sit Down If… Back to School Movement Icebreaker
Have your students giggling on day 1 with this getting-to-know-you activity.
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This or That! Needs and Wants Slides Game
Practice identifying needs and wants with an active game designed to get your students moving and learning.
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This or That! Goods and Services Active Game
Practice identifying examples of goods and services with an active game designed to get your students moving and learning.
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Team Building Games – Upper Grades
Encourage communication and cooperation with this set of 10 team-building games.
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Behavior Charades
Explore appropriate and inappropriate behaviors at the beginning of a new school year with a fun charade activity.
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Adverbs Activity - Grammar Charades
Have some fun and build grammar skills with an adverb charades activity.
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Move It! Needs and Wants Slides Game
Get up and moving with an active game while identifying and describing examples of needs and wants.
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Would You Rather...? Back to School Edition
Engage your students in thought-provoking discussions with this set of 16 back-to-school “Would You Rather” questions.
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Telling Time Knockout
Practice telling time to the minute by reading analog and digital clocks with this competitive whole-class game.
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Figurative Language Telephone Game
Play this figurative language game with a group to practice recognizing and inventing metaphors, similes, and personification.
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New Year Charades
Get your students up and moving with a fun game of New Year Charades!
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Ball Handling Drills for Kids — Teacher Tasks Cards
A set of 4 task cards containing drills and activities to develop ball skills.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Singular and Plural Nouns
An active PowerPoint game to practice working with singular and plural nouns.
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Rhyme and Shuffle - Rhyming PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice producing rhyming words.
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Solve and Shuffle - Ending Punctuation PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice ending punctuation.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Common and Proper Nouns
An active PowerPoint game to practice working with common and proper nouns.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Possessive Nouns
An active PowerPoint game to practice working with possessive nouns.
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Solve and Shuffle - Letter Sounds PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice initial letter sounds.
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Move It! Handwriting PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice handwriting.
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The Mini-Olympics – Class Game
A fun, Olympic-themed competition you can have with your class.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Vowel Teams
An active PowerPoint game to practice decoding words with vowel teams.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game – -ar Words
An active PowerPoint game to practice decoding and spelling -ar words.
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This or That! PowerPoint Game - Contractions
An active PowerPoint game to practice working with contractions.
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Move It! - Long and Short Vowel 'U' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice reading and identifying long and short vowel ‘u’ words.
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Move It! - Long and Short Vowel 'O' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice reading and identifying long and short vowel ‘o’ words.
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Move It! - Long and Short Vowel 'I' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice reading and identifying long and short vowel ‘i’ words.
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Move It! - Long and Short Vowel 'E' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice reading and identifying long and short vowel ‘e’ words.
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Move It! - Long and Short Vowel 'A' PowerPoint Game
An active PowerPoint game to practice reading and identifying long and short vowel 'a' words.
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Array Beanbag Toss
A fun, whole-class active game to play when learning about arrays.
