Effective out of classroom activities

effective out of classroom activities

Conventional lecture methods would not be very productive when the students are tired or sleepy, especially in the afternoon sessions. Having some fun classroom activities can make students active after lunch hour.

Some teachers would make it plainly fun games while some others use it as a strategy to revise what is learned in the previous classes. In the morning sessions also, some teachers would take a short gap in between the strenuous learning to bring in some fun.

Are you looking for some interesting fun classroom activities to make your learning session interesting and engaging? Here are a few among the most played cool classroom activities for students of diverse class levels:

1. Educational Bingo

This awesome game can be played in groups. It is a lot of fun while helping to revise what is learnt in the class.

Teacher can ask a question that was taught in the previous class and the answer would be hidden in the bingo puzzle. It is widely used to learn mathematics with fun. The bingo card can contain numbers in columns and they have to solve maths puzzles to find out the answers in the list.

For example, teacher can call out “all numbers that are divisible by 4 in a row”.

2. Bleep



Bleep is an interesting memory game in which students are restricted to use certain words during reading comprehension.

A list of banned words is first provided to the participating students. This can also be word categories such as colors, names, animals, food and more.

Teacher would then give a reading comprehension material containing the relevant words. Each student is asked to read a sentence or paragraph by omitting these words.

They have to bleep once they come over a banned word to succeed in the game.

3. Pink Tac Toe

This is a really funny game that can be played with any number of students by grouping them into teams. Teacher would call out a body part followed by a colour.

A student from a team is assigned the task of finding an object in the classroom with that particular colour. He/she then needs to touch it with the mentioned body part.

If teacher calls out pink toe, he/she has to find out an object with pink colour and touch it with his toe.

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4. Sports Gallery

This is an energizer game that raises the acting spirit in students.

Teacher will have a list of sports activities with him/her numbered from 1 to 10 or so. He would then randomly call out a student and asks to say a number.

Teacher now call out the sports activity that is linked to the particular number in his/her list.

The student has to enact the activity for at least 10 seconds.

The list can include items such as shooting a jump shot, batting a baseball, serving a tennis ball, juggling a soccer ball and more.