GamesClassroom tools
For running the day: keeping the room quiet, picking names, a line for help, the weather, making groups, seating plans, rolling dice and timing.
Quiet Critters
Stay quiet and the animals come out. A noise meter game for the whole class.
Quiet Garden
While the class is quiet, plants come up in a pixel-art garden. Fill both beds and the butterflies come.
Fishing Pond
Cast a line and pull up a fish with a child's name on its tag. A name picker for the whole class.
Herd the Groups
Paste in your class list and a sheepdog herds each name into a pen, one pen per group.
Seating Chart
Draw your room, paste in each class and drag names onto desks. Shuffle, sort A to Z, show it on the board or print it.
Help Line
Children tap their name to get in line for help, and you press Next to call them in order. Add a bathroom line if you want one.
Weather Bear
Today's weather for the morning routine. The class guesses, then Bear gets dressed for it.
Big Dice
Roll one to six 3D dice on the board. Dots or numerals, and 10- and 20-sided dice.
Big Countdown
A big timer for the board. At zero a rocket launches, a volcano erupts or an egg hatches.
Lesson Timer
Split a lesson into parts, like 15 minutes reading and 20 minutes work. A train stops at a station as each part ends.
Maths games
The whole class plays together on the board. Each one practises a topic, from counting to coordinates and money.
Bug Flash
Ladybugs land on a leaf, then hide. How many did you see? A quick number game for the whole class.
Estimation Jar
Guess how many are in the jar, then tip it out and count in tens. A new jar every day.
Frog on the Number Line
The class gives orders like "forward 8, back 3" and the frog hops along the number line.
How Many Ducks Long?
The class guesses how many ducks long a dinosaur is, then the ducks line up beside it to check.
Barn Graph
Each vote is an animal that walks into a picture graph. Then the animals turn into a bar graph.
Treasure Grid
Two sides of the room call coordinates to find a buried chest. Each miss shows how many steps away it is.
Bridge Builders
The class lays planks across a river to fill the gap exactly. Too short, and the animal falls in.
Castle Siege
Two teams answer questions. A right answer fires your catapult and knocks blocks out of the other team's wall. Maths facts, your own questions, or questions made for a topic.
Tug of Mud
A tug of war over a mud pit. Get a question right before the other side does and your team pulls the rope. Five steps, and the other team is in the mud.
Rollercoaster Barn
Build a rollercoaster from hills, loops and pond jumps. If a hill is too high, the cart rolls back and the animals lose their hats.
Market Day
The class runs a farm stall for a week. Each morning they read the forecast and decide what to make.
Hopscotch
Two teams throw beanbags onto a chalk hopscotch. Each square scores its number, and the class adds up the totals.
Fold and Fill
Unfold a 3D shape into its net to find its surface area, or fill it with cubes to find its volume.
Angle Lab
Drag lines and corners on the board and the angles change as you go, with the working beside them.
Place Value
Build numbers with base-ten blocks, trade ten for one, and zoom out from one small cube to a million.
Rewards and fun
The class earns minutes of fun time in the Star Jar or the Scratch Garden, then plays on a Friday or a wet lunchtime.
Star Jar
A child who earns a star opens a present, and the stars go in the class jar. Each one is a minute of fun time.
Scratch Garden
A child who earns a reward scratches a seed card, and that many flowers come up in the class garden. Each one is a minute of fun time.
Penguin Curling
Two teams, or the class against the computer, slide penguins down the ice and sweep to make them go further. Nearest the fish scores.
Vine Swing
Swing a bear from vine to vine over a river. Hold to grab, let go to fly. How far can you get?
Honey Roll
Roll a ball of honey round a valley. It picks up cookies, then ducks, then barns, then dinosaurs.
Island Dash
Run along islands in the sky with a T. rex behind you. Swipe to jump, slide and change lanes.
Big Catch
Cast off a jetty, strike when the float goes under, and reel in sharks, stingrays and the odd old tyre.
Water Polo
Swim, pass and shoot in a small outdoor pool. Play Red against the computer, or two players share the screen.
Bumper Bowl
Two bumper cars on a round platform in the water. Steer with two buttons and bump the other car in.
Tank Maze
Two tanks in a small maze. Hold Drive to go, let go to turn, and fire shells that bounce off the walls.
Mancala
The old seed-sowing game on a wooden board. Tap a pit, drop its seeds round the board, and fill your store.
Wobbly Tower
Take turns dropping clay pieces onto one tower. If anything falls off the stool on your turn, you lose.
Geography
Places and maps, for the whole class on the board or for one player.
Name That Country
The globe turns to a country and colours it orange. The class types its name, and a wrong guess shows where that country really is.
Sky Post
Fly a little plane round the globe and drop each parcel on the right country, city or famous place before the fuel runs out.
Border Hop
Name the countries you'd cross to get from one country to another by land, such as Sweden to Tanzania, crossing as few borders as you can.
Space
The real sky over your school, on the board.
Chemistry
Flame test colours, for the whole class on the board.
Science practice
Students work through these on their own, on a laptop or tablet, and get feedback as they go.
Economics
For Years 10 to 12, on a laptop, tablet or phone.
Making tests
For the teacher, not the board: draw figures and copy them into a test or worksheet.
