Does anyone know any fun education games?

Question

I'm teaching English to kids and my boss really wants to kids to enjoy the class because they are still very young and get bored or fustrated easily. My students are 3-6 years old and 9-12 so if anyone knows any good games I play with them that they will enjoy and learn from at the same time, it would make my life so much easier. Thanks

Answer 1

You need to tie your games in with your learning goals. Playing Scrabble doesn't help with pronunciation. See the link below for hundreds of teacher-tested games that can be used in ESL or EFL classrooms. You'll have to read through them to find ones that meet the learning needs of your students.

Answer 2

I'm not sure exactly what kind of games you're looking for, but I use games all the time with all different ages of kids. You can take any game that you know and make it educational. Some games that my students like are Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, etc. If you take pop culture games and frame questions that let the kids participate, they love it. I've even found ways to turn Poker into a classroom game where the kids have to answer questions to draw cards and make certain Poker hands.

Other ideas that I use...especially for younger kids. Sometimes I'll take a poster of their favorite music artist or an animal or something familiar, mount it on poster board and cut it up into little puzzle pieces. Then I put a question on the back each piece. I hide the pieces around the room and let each child take a turn finding one. When they find one, they can put a piece of the puzzle together IF they answer their question correctly. They love it and it keeps their attention. I've used this with 3 and 4 year olds as well as with high school students. Age doesn't matter with this activity. They love to see the picture as it comes together and they always try to guess what it is.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

Go to ESL_lounge, you could also try Ask Eric lesson plans. I teach ESL but it is to adults. When teaching English speakers English we played a variety of games such as human tic tac toe and you could do that ... put a tic tac toe gameboard on the floor using masking tape. Separate the students into 2 teams. One person from each team has to spell a word if they get it right they sit in a square if wrong the other team's person gets to spell it (the one who spelled it incorrectly goes to the back of his/her line) play until one team makes a line and wins. The kids loved it and I played with 6-12 year olds. With the older children you can use adjectives and other things. Another for vocabulary is to put two chairs in front facing the class. Write a vocab word on the board behind them. The class has been divided into two teams, they describe the words to their player by giving them the definition and the players have to think of the vocab word. The first person to say the vocab word wins .. the team with the most points wins the game. I also know a preposition song with movements. Then there is the snake game. Both teams has a word written on the board. They start with the same word that you write up. Then they make words using the last letter in the previous word. For instance say I wrote up the word cat. The next person would write turkey, using the t to start the word in a vertical direction, then the next person may write yak horizontally and so on. You pick a theme like food, countries etc. Have fun, I hope this helps. Good luck PS Buy the game "Apples to Apples" it also comes in a jr. edition.

Answer 4

Scattergories and Guesstures would be fun for the older kids. In my class if we read something, we play a simple game I made up called "Mystery Topic." In the discussion, whoever brings up the mystery topic wins a prize. Students must be called on to answer and I try to choose from side to side and alternate between males and females when calling on students. I definitely get more to read and participate this way. Grammar Gorilla is an online game you could try.

You can turn anything into a game. With any subject matter, you can divide the students into teams and have a relay race to write the correct answers on the board. When students finish, the team can confer on the answers OR the "captain" can correct any wrong answers or choose someone else to do it. The first team finished with the most right answers wins.

Answer 5

I have an similar situation, and it is what i will do. First, I modern the thoughts in a Powerpoint. Then, to envision it... i'm dividing the type into 2 communities. Then, we bypass lower to and fro asking questions. every time they get a question appropriate, they get some Vanilla Wafers. The crew with the most vanilla wafers wins, then they could eat their snack!! Haha our type likes vanilla wafers, yet you should use any type of manage!! wish this may help!

Answer 6

bookworm is great for kids and adults me and my 7yr old compete all the time, if you cant get it email me , its like scrabble