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Games that hold the attention of sixth to eighth graders, where competition and strategy tend to work better than cute characters.
Yes-or-no questions that practice narrowing down by category.
Think of a person, place, animal or term from the unit. The class has twenty yes-or-no questions to work out what it is. Writing the questions on the board helps students build on each other's answers instead of guessing at random.
Live math-fact rounds for the whole class. Students join without accounts and a round takes a few minutes.
Multiplayer racing-style games for math facts, spelling, typing and geography.
Team quiz games run from the teacher's screen, so students need no devices or accounts.
Make bingo cards from your own words or images, then print them or play online.
Students answer your questions to power arcade-style game modes, so the same question set can be replayed as a different game each time.
Escape-room style games where teams use what they know to solve puzzles and break out.
A quick word game that works in any subject.
Give a category such as animals, verbs or elements, and a letter. Teams have one minute to write as many matching words as they can. Words that no other team wrote score double.
A long-running collection of free game and tool generators made for classroom teachers.
Free computer science courses for K–12 with game-like coding puzzles.
Logic, strategy and thinking games more than curriculum drill. Good as a reward or brain break.
Lessons laid out as a path students follow, plus whole-class games that use your own questions.
Game generator covering crosswords, jigsaws, dialogues and more, with a live mode where you host and students play on their devices.
A memory and deduction game for a spare fifteen minutes.
Everyone secretly writes a famous name, or a term from the unit, on a slip. Read all the slips aloud twice, then put them away. Students take turns guessing who wrote which. A correct guess brings that person into your empire and you guess again. The last empire standing wins.
Games alongside grammar lessons and vocabulary practice for English learners.
Jeopardy-style board maker with timers and an optional buzzer mode where teams buzz in from their phones.
A set of quick game templates, including a Family Feud-style survey game for up to six teams and printable tile puzzles.
A movement game that doubles as a multiple-choice review.
Label the corners of the room A, B, C and D. Ask a question, give four answers, and students walk to the corner they think is right. Reveal the answer; those in the wrong corners sit down, or simply start the next round so nobody is out for long.
A trivia game owned by the UN World Food Programme, built around its work to end hunger. Vocabulary is the best-known category.
Games, books and videos you can browse by grade from Pre-K to 8.
A small set of simple games for practicing English vocabulary and grammar.
Games, worksheets and lesson plans made by teachers. The games are designed to be shown to the whole class.
A game show where correct answers earn in-game cash that students spend on upgrades, so strategy matters as well as knowledge.
Over 1,000 math games run by a math teacher. It also hosts general arcade games, so point students at a specific game.
Vocabulary review where the class does the explaining.
One student sits facing the class with their back to the board. Write a word or term on the board. The class gives clues without saying the word until the student in the hot seat guesses it. Play in two teams and time each turn to keep it moving.
Civics games that can be played individually or as a whole class with the game projected.
Build a Jeopardy board in the browser without PowerPoint, or pick from templates other people have made.
The live quiz most others are compared with. Questions show on the main screen and students race to answer on their own devices.
Standards-aligned science, history and math games reviewed by educators.
The classroom edition of Minecraft, with a library of lessons across the curriculum.
Role-playing missions that put students inside moments in US history. Developed for middle school.
Thousands of activities and over 400 games made by an elementary teacher, strong on US history and geography.
Interactive lessons with game activities built in, so the quiz sits inside the lesson instead of after it.
Drawing vocabulary on the board for a team to guess.
Split into two teams. One student from a team draws a word from your list on the board while their team guesses within a time limit. No letters, numbers or talking from the artist.
The one to use when students have no devices. Each student holds up a printed card and you scan the room with your phone.
A fantasy role-playing game where students answer curriculum-aligned math questions to win battles.
Quiz games tied to curriculum standards, with results that show which skills each student still needs.
Turns any Quizlet study set into a team race where groups have to talk to each other to find the right answer.
A free block-based programming language. Here students make their own games instead of playing someone else's.
Map quizzes for every continent, with printable versions. Now part of GeoGuessr.
Calms a room down while keeping everyone involved.
Students sit on or stand by their desks and throw a soft ball to each other in complete silence. Talking, a bad throw or a dropped catch means you sit down. To add learning, the catcher must answer a question before throwing.
Built for quick checks for understanding more than for play, with instant results as students submit.
The whole class plays the same math or spelling game while each student gets questions at their own level.
Review questions with a shot at the bin as the reward.
Split the class into teams and ask review questions. A correct answer earns a point and a throw of a paper ball at the bin from a marked line for a bonus point. Teams answering on mini whiteboards keeps everyone working on every question.
A get-to-know-you game that also works as a fact check on a topic.
Each student writes three statements, two true and one false. The class votes on which is the lie. For content review, students write the statements about the unit instead of about themselves.
A live team vocabulary contest from Vocabulary.com.
Quizizz under its new name. Students work through a quiz at their own pace instead of waiting for the slowest answer.
One activity can be switched between 30+ formats such as quizzes, matching games and flashcards, and printed for offline use.
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