I am passionate about educational learning games in all year groups including A level. Learning should be fun and games in lessons stimulate the students' motivation and engagement, their creativity and their team spirit. Games encourage discussions with one another and learning from each other. I hope my resources help students to be "game to learn".
I am passionate about educational learning games in all year groups including A level. Learning should be fun and games in lessons stimulate the students' motivation and engagement, their creativity and their team spirit. Games encourage discussions with one another and learning from each other. I hope my resources help students to be "game to learn".
Who said it? Card sort on quotes from key characters from the nativity story
30 cards per set. Students need to match the quote with the character who said it. There are also 4 discussion cards for students to talk about the quotes.
Great as starter / plenary activity in RE lessons or for form time during advent / Christmas season.
Also available in a FREE bundle with my other Christmas resources:
Large Loop game on the Easter Story
with 37 domino cards
Great as starter / plenary activity in RE lessons or for form time during lent and Easter
also available for FREE in a bundle with my other Easter story resources:
Fast card game in which players need to find Easter story characters and items and name them. Only 1 image is the same between two cards. Who can find it and name it first?
30 cards with 6 images each. Square cards for easy chopping up
Great as starter / plenary activity in RE lessons or for form time during lent and Easter
also available for FREE in a bundle with my other Easter story resources:
Cards are distributed between players. One card is placed in the middle. Players hold their cards as a pile with the top card showing symbols. The player who can first find the matching symbol between his top card and the card in the middle calls out that symbol and places his top card in the middle. Now the matching symbol of that card with the players’ top cards has to be found. The player who manages to get rid of all his cards first is the winner.
Large loop game on Moses and the Exodus story with 30 domino cards
Great as starter / plenary activity in RE lessons
Also available in a FREE bundle with my other Exodus resources:
Matching Pairs Game on the Easter Story with 36 cards
Great as starter / plenary activity in RE lessons or for form time during lent and Easter
also available for FREE in a bundle with my other Easter story resources:
I have… who has…? game for a group of students on the Biblical Easter story
36 cards
Great as starter / plenary activity in RE lessons or for form time during lent and Easter
also available for FREE in a bundle with my other Easter story resources:
Who said it? Card sort with 36 cards on quotes from key characters from the Easter story
Students need to match the quote with the character who said it.
There are also 4 discussion cards for students to reflect on the quotes.
Great as starter / plenary activity in RE lessons or for form time during lent and Easter
also available for FREE in a bundle with my other Easter story resources:
Matching Pairs Game on Moses and the Exodus story with 2x30 cards
Great as starter / plenary activity in RE lessons
Also available in a FREE bundle with my other Exodus resources:
Fun and fast card game in which players need to find Exodus story characters (Moses, Pharaoh, etc) and items (burning bush, 10 commandments, etc) and name them. Only 1 image is the same between two cards. Who can find it and name it first?
30 cards with 6 images each, square cards - easy to chop up
Great as starter / plenary activity in RE lessons
Also available in a FREE bundle with my other Exodus resources:
2 plenary cubes on DNA keywords
fun plenary activity
INSTRUCTIONS
roll both dice
form a sentence in which both keywords are used and connected correctly
EXAMPLE:
DNA and CHROMOSOME:
“A chromosome is a large molecule made of DNA.”
plenary cubes on classification of vertebrate groups (mammals, fish, bird, reptiles, amphibians)
fun plenary activity
INSTRUCTIONS
roll both dice
form a sentence in which both keywords are used and connected correctly
EXAMPLE:
fish and breathing:
”fish breath through gills.”
Learning wheel puzzle on different vertebrate groups
Print learning wheel and cut up pieces (small A4 or large 5xA4 size)
Students try to reassemble the 50 pieces in correct order.
(5 vertebrate groups, 3 examples for each group, 6 characteristics for each group)
Great as starter, plenary or revision activity or for homeschooling
Fun card game on Feelings with Emoticons / Emojis.
A quick and fun starter / plenary game e.g. for a PSHCE lesson on emotions or Biology lesson on hormones.
30 square cards per set with 6 symbols each, suitable for 3-4 players
print, laminate, cut up, play!
Cards are distributed between players. One card is placed in the middle. Players hold their cards as a pile with the top card showing symbols. The player who can first find the matching symbol between his top card and the card in the middle calls out that symbol and places his top card in the middle. Now the matching symbol of that card with the players’ top cards has to be found. The player who manages to get rid of all his cards first is the winner.
Fun card game with Medical / Healthcare / Surgery images.
A quick game to break up a long lesson.
30 cards
for 3-4 players per set
print, laminate, cut up, play!
Loop game on rocky shore molluscs for Biology Ecology Field trip.
Includes toothed topshells, purple topshells, grey topshells, edible periwinkles, rough periwinkles, dogwhelks, limpets, barnacles etc
Great for learning species names and identification of species.
18 cards per set
fun card game on rocky shore molluscs for Biology Ecology Field trip.
Includes toothed topshells, purple topshells, grey topshells, edible periwinkles, rough periwinkles, dogwhelks, limpets, barnacles, puffins, guillimots, etc
Great fun and good for learning species names and identification of species.
There is only one symbol that two cards have in common and it’s different for every card pair - can students find it and name it?
Cards are distributed between players. One card is placed in the middle. Players hold their cards as a pile with the top card showing symbols. The player who can first find the matching symbol between his top card and the card in the middle calls out that symbol and places his top card in the middle. Now the matching symbol of that card with the players’ top cards has to be found. The player who manages to get rid of all his cards first is the winner.
31 cards with 31 different symbols
Quick (10 min) test or quiz with 16 questions on classification, kingdoms, vertebrates, invertebrates
Great as starter / plenary or quick assessment activity.
Page 1: Test with marks
Page 2: Quiz without marks
Page 3: Mark scheme
Wordsearch on carbohydrates (including monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides, glucose, maltose, sucrose, amylose, etc)
2 difficulty levels: just search for all 16 words from list or try to find as many words from topic as possible without word list
Designed for Edexcel SNAB Biology Topic 1 (Lifestyle, health & risk))
Great as starter, plenary or revision activity