🍎 The teacher's idea library

Online activities a teacher can pick up and run — with the steps, the timings, the words to say out loud, and always a way in for the learner who is not ready yet.

Homeroom & guidance2 articles

18 minAges 6–11

The problem: Calling learners up one at a time loses the other twenty-nine, and the one at the front is standing alone in front of everybody.

🖥️ Two learners at the front, half a screen each

Split the front screen in two. Both learners work the same questions at the same time, nobody stands waiting, and the room watches two people think at once.

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20 minAges 6–11

The problem: Nobody puts a hand up — and the moment you make it a contest it turns into the same three learners answering everything.

⚡ One screen, two sides, whoever presses first answers

Split the room in two, send a player each to the screen, one question at a time. Whoever hits the buzzer first answers — and a wrong answer costs nothing, it passes the question across.

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Maths1 articles

20 minAges 6–11

The problem: Twenty exercises: the ones who can do it finish by number ten, and the ones who cannot sit quietly until the bell without anybody noticing.

🔢 Maths: three moments for a game — warm up, drill, and see who hasn't got it

You do not have to change your plan. Three moments: five minutes at the start, ten in the practice, and two at the end that tell you who to sit beside tomorrow.

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Thai1 articles

20 minAges 6–11

The problem: You set a piece of writing and the room goes silent — because nobody has said the thing out loud even once before being asked to put it on paper.

📖 Thai: let them talk first, and write afterwards

Four games that get the room using language out loud before anybody writes anything — proverbs, verbs, telling a story, and actually listening to each other.

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Science1 articles

22 minAges 6–11

The problem: Give the answer first and the experiment afterwards, and they are only confirming what they were told — which is not an experiment.

🔬 Science: teach the guess before you teach the answer

Four games that have the room guess, then look, then know — in the order science actually works, rather than the order the textbook prints it.

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Health & PE1 articles

15 minAges 3–5

The problem: Open a conversation about feelings after two periods of sitting still and you get the answers they think you want.

🌿 Health & PE: move first, then talk about feelings

Get the room moving first and open the feelings conversation while the body is ready to have it. Three games that run beside a desk, with no field needed.

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