An interactive activity is not only a game for the last five minutes of the lesson. Used well, it is a quick way to see what your students know, to wake up a tired class, or to give every student a chance to answer. Here are ten ways teachers use Interactive Learning.
1. Warm-up on the big screen
Start the lesson with a spin of the wheel or a quick quiz about last week. Project it, let volunteers answer, and you know in two minutes what needs revising.
Try it: Spin the wheel · Choose
2. Exit ticket
Before the bell, send a five-question quiz with a link or a QR code. Ask students to write their name: their scores arrive in My results, so you plan the next lesson with real data.
3. Teams on the board
Tic-tac-toe, the board game and the quiz show are made for two teams. Each team chooses a square or rolls the dice, answers, and wins its turn.
Try it: Tic-tac-toe · Board game · Quiz show
4. Vocabulary in context
Memory, match and the word search turn a list of words into something to play with. Add pictures so students connect the word with its meaning, not with a translation.
Try it: Memory · Match · Word search
5. Speaking practice
Write prompts like “Tell me about your weekend” in the speaking wheel. Students spin and talk for thirty seconds. There is no right answer: the goal is to speak.
6. Sorting and classifying
Sort works for anything with categories: mammals and birds, solids and liquids, nouns and verbs, prime and composite numbers.
Try it: Sort
7. Homework that marks itself
Share the link in Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams. Students can go back, skip and return to questions, and in most types they see at the end what they missed, with the right answer.
8. Stations
Put three different activities on three tablets or computers and rotate the groups every ten minutes.
9. Students as creators
Ask each group to create an activity about the topic for the rest of the class. Writing good wrong answers is one of the best ways to learn.
10. Revision before a test
Make one activity, then open it with “Make a copy” and change the type: the same questions become a quiz show, a crossword or a board game, so students revise without getting bored.
Tip: turn on the leaderboard in Game options and play the same activity at the start and at the end of the unit. Students love beating their own score.
Interactive Learning is free: create interactive activities and games for any subject, or read the other Interactive Learning guides.
Leave a Reply