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6 Super Fun Games For High School Students

High school students can lose interest easily, and if your lessons are not fun and engaging, it can be difficult to get students to focus. But don’t worry! There are lots of fun and energizing classroom games you can use to keep high school students engaged. Below you’ll find our favorite fun games for high school students .

Fun Games For High School Students

1: thumbs up game.

This first activity is a classic classroom game that high school students love to play! To play, first, choose three students to come up to the front of the class. These students are the ‘walkers’. Next, tell all other students to put their heads on their desks, close their eyes, and put their thumbs up. Now the game can begin.

The three ‘walkers’ will then walk around the class and choose one student each by touching their thumbs. If a student’s thumb is touched, that student should put their thumb down. Once all three ‘walkers’ have chosen one student, they should return to the front of the class, and then the teacher should tell all students to “ Wake up !” (i.e., open their eyes and sit up).

The three students whose thumbs were touched should stand up, and then they must guess which of the ‘walkers’ touched their thumb. If they guess correctly, they get to swap places with the ‘walker’. If they guess wrong, they sit back down.

To make this game more fun for high school students, you can try giving each of the ‘walkers’ a funny name. This can be something silly or names from their favorite pop group, TV series, etc. Another thing you can do to make it even more fun is to get the ‘walkers’ to make a silly sound or to say something with a different voice when they touch another student’s thumb.

2: The Liar Game

This next activity is very versatile and can be used in almost any high school class. To play, you’re going to need some ‘game cards’. If you’re teaching vocabulary, these can be small flashcards , or if you’re teaching reading, these can be cards made from a passage of text split up into sentences. For the purpose of this explanation, the cards will be numbers. Create sets of 6-8 game cards and give one set to each student.

Next, you need to tell students the order in which the game cards will be played during the game. A great way to do this is to include the order number on the top of the cards when you create them. Finally, put students in groups of 3/4.

To begin, all 3/4 students in a group must put all their cards in the middle and mix them all together. Then, they must each choose 6/8 random cards (depending on how many are in each set) and make sure not to show these cards to other members in the group. Now the game can begin.

Students will take turns placing the game cards facedown in the middle in the pre-determined order. So, the first student should look at their cards, find the number 1 card, and then place it facedown in the middle and say “ Number 1 ” (or say the word/text that is on the number 1 card). The second student should then look at their cards, find the number 2 card, and place it facedown in the middle and say “Number 2”. Then it’s the next student’s turn to place the number 3 card in the middle. And so on.

The fun part of this game is that a student may not have the correct card to place in the middle because they chose random cards at the beginning. And so, if a student doesn’t have the correct card, they must lie! In this situation, they would choose any of their cards and pretend they are placing the correct card in the middle.

At any time, if any of the other students think someone is lying, they can shout “ Liar !”, at which point the last card to be placed in the middle would be turned over to check if the last student did in fact lie.

If a student is caught in a lie, that student must pick up all the cards in the middle. If a student is accused of lying, but they did not lie, then the accuser must pick up all the cards. The first student to get rid of all the cards is the winner!

3: Word Association Game

The are plenty of word association game variations , but the one we find works best with high school students is a version with a particular topic. To play, first, you must choose a topic. A great way to do this is to ask the students for ideas. This way, you will get topics that the students are interested in, which is a great way to keep students engaged. For example, students might choose a topic such as ‘ computer games ‘, ‘ pop groups ‘, ‘ types of food ‘, etc.

Once you have a topic, tell students that they will take turns saying a word associated with the topic. For example, if the topic is ‘ types of food ‘, one student might say “ Mexican food “, and the next student might say “ fried food “, etc. If a student is not able to say an associated word or repeats a word that has already been said, then that student is out! Play until only one or two students are left. These are the winners. Choose another topic, and start again.

4: The Chain Game

This next activity is similar to the above word association game but with a fun twist. To start, one student would say a word, and then the next student must say a word that starts with the last letter of the previous word. This ‘chain’ continues until a student can’t think of a word or repeats a word that has already been said.

If your high school students have a particularly large vocabulary, this game might be too easy. However, a great way to make it more challenging is to make a rule that each word must be from a particular category. For example. ‘ things that are blue ‘, ‘ girl’s names ‘, ‘ famous people ‘, etc.

5: The Hula Skirt Game

This game is superfun and a great way to get your high school students out of their seats, speaking, and having fun. To prepare for this activity, you’ll need to prepare some questions to create the ‘hula skirt’. You can use any questions, but if you’re stuck for ideas. these 30 Ice-Breaker Questions work great with this activity.

Once you have your questions, type them up, one question per line, and print them on an A4 piece of paper. Next, with a pair of scissors, cut a line between each question to make strips. Don’t cut all the way to the end of the page so that the strips are still all connected. This is our ‘hula skirt’. Finally, tape the ‘hula skirt’ securely on the board and place a trash can about 5-10 feet from the board. Now the game can begin.

Make two teams and have them line up at the far end of the classroom. When the teacher says “ Go! “, one student from each team must race to the board and tear off one of the strips of paper. At which point they must read the question that is on the paper out loud and answer the question as quickly as they can.

After answering the question, a student must roll up the strip of paper into a ball and try to throw it into the trash can from where they are standing. If they get it in, they get 1 point for their team. Next, the student runs back to their team and tags the next player who runs to the board to choose the next strip of paper.

6: The Mafia Game

The Mafia Game is a really fun game that high school students want to play time and time again. The game is quite complicated, however, so you may need to practice a few times before students get it. Here’s how to play the Mafia Game step by step.

Step One: Choose A Narrator

The narrator’s job is to assign the roles, read the scenario, and moderate the gameplay.

Step Two: Choose The Number Of Mafia Members

The number of Mafia members should be about 1/3 of the total number of players. For example, if you have 30 students playing, then 10 of them will be in the Mafia.

Step Three: Assign Roles

In addition to the Mafia members, there should also be police officers, doctors, and civilians. Police officers try to catch the Mafia members, doctors heal people who have been attacked by the Mafia, and civilians are just innocent bystanders.

While assigning the roles, it is important to keep the roles secret or the game won’t work. A great way to do this is for the narrator to tell everyone to close their eyes and assign the roles by saying, “ I will now touch the Mafia Members on the head. “, “ I will now touch the Police Officers on the head. “, “ I will now touch the doctors on the head. ” Those that are not touched are the ‘civilians’.

Step Four: Round 1

Next, it’s time for round 1. The narrator should tell everyone to close their eyes. Then, the narrator will then say, “ Mafia members open your eyes. ” The Mafia members will open their eyes and choose one person to ‘kill.’ So that this is a secret, they should silently point to one person to make their choice. Once the Mafia have made their choice, the narrator should take note of who they killed, and then they should close their eyes again.

Next, the narrator says, “ Police officers, open your eyes. ” and the police will point at someone to ‘interrogate’. Later, this person will be asked if they are the Mafia and they cannot lie. The narrator takes note of who will be interrogated and then the police officers close their eyes.

Next, the narrator says “ Doctors, open your eyes. “, and then the doctors point at one person they will ‘save’. If this person was killed by the mafia, they are ‘saved’ and get to stay in the game.

Step Five: The Narrator Explains The Scenario

Next, the narrator says “ Everyone, open your eyes .” and then explains what just happened. For example, “ The Mafia Killed Chris. The doctors saved Kelly, and the police chose to interrogate Tom. ” Then the narrator will ask Tom if he is a member of the Maffia, and he must tell the truth.

In this scenario, Chris is out as he was killed by the Mafia. Kelly wasn’t killed and so there was no need to be ‘saved’. And if Tom answers “Yes” to being in the Mafia, then he is out. If he answers “No”, he is still in the game.

Step Six: Everyone Discusses

Now, that everyone has heard the scenario, it is time for everyone to discuss who they think is the Mafia. After the discussion, everyone will vote on who they think it is. The person with the most votes is ‘lynched’ and are out of the game. The narrator can then tell them if they caught a Mafia member, or killed a civilian, doctor, or police officer.

Step Eight: Repeat

Repeat the above steps until either all the Mafia members have been caught, or all the civilians are out.

As you can see, the Mafia game is quite complicated but it makes a fantastic classroom game for high school students once they get the hang of it.

Thanks for reading. I hope your students have lots of fun playing these classroom games. Before you go, here are some more activity ideas and resources you might find useful: Reading Games For Middle School Students Classroom Games For Middle School Students Middle School Icebreakers PowerPoint Game Templates ESL Activity Videos

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Student engagement strategies and active learning are key to learners bringing their best selves to the classroom. It’s important to use diverse fun activities in your lesson plan to maintain active learning. We’re here to help you make sure you don’t run out of ideas. Check out our engaging activities for high school students:

Here are 5 icebreakers to start the lesson

Have a daily riddle that the class solves before the lesson starts. They can break into small groups to brainstorm or call out answers for the whiteboard. Check out a collated list here to help you with riddle ideas.

Foster the habit of writing by giving a visual stimulus, such as an interesting photo, and asking your students to write something about it. Use this image generator to inspire the entire class and give them specific parameters about what you want to explore. Do this every day to develop their writing skills.

3. Discussion

Add all the questions you want to cover with your students to this editable spin wheel and give it a spin to start the class discussion.

4. Flash fiction

Flash fiction is about broad storytelling. Give your students a challenge to write a 6-word story. They can use any topic but stick to the parameters to introduce an idea, plot, and character. There are some fantastic examples here to get those creative juices flowing.

5. Human knot

This is a physical and fun activity to develop problem-solving skills. Ask the students to stand in a circle and join hands with two random people in the circle. This creates a human knot, and the goal is to untangle it. Make it competitive with larger groups by dividing students into smaller groups or pairs and seeing who can get untangled the fastest using those critical thinking skills!

10 Classroom activities to engage students

Now that everyone has warmed up review the below teaching strategies to spice up some learning activities with these ideas.

1. Host a Jeopardy quiz!

If you’re a fan of the tv show then put that fandom to good use and host a quiz on the topic you’re studying. This activity is ideal for when high school students need to get ready for a big test. Studies have shown that students that are quizzed are more successful. They can revise with index cards so they are really familiar with the topic beforehand. Divide the class up into two teams and draw a Jeopardy-style game on the board with titles based on the topics that will be covered in the test and quiz. Just like in the television show, each category should have points for each level of question. Keep it simple with 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25-point question levels. Give each team a buzzer from a board game or a bell for answering. The teams should consult with each other before buzzing in with an answer.

2. Play Guess Who

Learning who is who from history can get overwhelming so use this teaching strategy to help. Put those problem-solving skills to good use in history class (or others!). Describe a time, place, or person from history with only three clues. The entire class has to try to figure out who or what you are referring to, then race to the whiteboard to write the answer. The students can use their history books or clues around the room if they need to.

3. Journalling

Develop creative writing skills by asking each student to write a journal entry from someone else’s perspective. There are many famous diarists who provide key insight into life through history. You could allocate a different diary entry for each student and then ask them to read it in front of the class. For example, if studying the civil war you could allocate students to write as if they were soldiers, civilians, politicians, etc.

4. Entry tickets …and exit tickets

Put a stack of index cards next to your classroom door and write a question on the board. When your students come into class, hand out index cards, write down an answer to the question and hand it in —as their “entry ticket” to class.

The question should be something related to the day’s lesson, like “after last night’s homework assignment, what do you think about X?” or “after studying the material for today’s class, what are some areas you still need clarification on?”

Not only does this activity get your students engaged and interacting from the minute they walk into the classroom, but it also gives you valuable insights you can use to guide the day’s lesson plan.

When your students are getting ready to leave for the day, have them do the same thing—just with exit tickets (use Kami’s templates).

The same concept applies. Ask them a question about the day’s lesson, any questions they might have, or overall feedback—then collect their ticket before they head home. Reviewing their exit tickets will help you figure out where to adjust your lesson plan for the following day.

5. Brainstorming

Group brainstorming sessions are a great way to bring your students together to engage with whatever they’re learning. Instead of thinking about the topic alone at their desk, they get to expand their ideas with other students in small groups, which will help them be more engaged and gain a new perspective on the lesson. This is a fun way to develop helpful skills for high school students, especially around class discussion. Use Kami’s brainstorming worksheets for this activity idea.

6. Debate-style activity

Most students will have a view of what you’re learning. Use this to your advantage and create a school activity of debating the merits or detractions of whatever you are learning about. This is a good way to engage critical thinking skills as the best debaters will anticipate what the other person might say and be prepared. Get them to write down their main points on pieces of paper ahead so they can practice and be prepared for the debate. This can be done in front of the whole class and you can change the debaters each week.

7. Thumbs up / thumbs down

Thumbs up / thumbs down is a hands-on fun way to monitor if your students are following a story. Tell students to put their thumbs up if they agree with a statement or to put their thumbs down if they disagree. When students have a low energy level (maybe right after lunch?) Stand Up/Sit Down may be a better alternative.

8. Create a video lesson plan

Social media is a part of students’ lives, and those skills in making videos can be really helpful. Flip the tables and ask the students to put together a lesson on the specific topic. Ask the students to put together a video, and perhaps instigate a challenge to include certain vocabulary words you’re written on the whiteboard. This is a fun hands-on activity that could produce some great learning resources.

9. Think pair share

Think pair share can be used for a variety of topics; math problems, science processes, and reading. If you ask an open-ended question ask the students to think about it, then put them into small groups and let them discuss. Then ask all the students to contribute to the classroom discussion and share their thoughts in front of the class.

10. Roll the dice

High school students really respond to their learning when they feel engaged and part of it. Why not write down all the activities that you might have planned and number them? Then ask a student to roll the dice. Whatever number they roll is the activity you do for that lesson. You provide students with some potential impact on how they learn.

Student engagement strategies are a fun way to get the students learning and keep them engaged as their attention span might wane through the day (as might yours). It’s great to have lots of varied ways to engage the brain, body, and spirit. Please let us know on socials how you get on!

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💡 Before we begin: If you are new to BookWidgets, BookWidgets is a content creation and evaluation tool for teachers. We provide the tools to support your students’ learning process from beginning to end with customizable templates (aka widgets) for creating activities and a reporting dashboard to track your students’ progress. I have a math activity for many of our 40 widget types. You can create your own or duplicate the ones I share by opening the activity and making a copy in your account . After duplicating, you can make changes to the activity, customizing it for your students. By clicking on this link you can access all the activities mentioned in this blog post. 💡 Keep in mind : If you integrate BookWidgets into a Learning Management System like Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Moodle, Canvas – & more! –, you can use “ Live Widgets ” to keep an eye on your students’ progress in real time to give feedback and support when needed.

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Whether engaging students on the first day or 100th day of school, with our free interactive math activities, your classroom will become an animated learning environment brimming with fun math games for students. Each engaging math activity below is designed with the young learner in mind, setting a foundation for enjoying math through interactive play and hands-on exploration. Ready your students for an adventure in numbers that promises to be as rewarding as it is enjoyable!

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💡 Pro tip : After students submit their finished “paintings”, customize the feedback options to remove the point values and to download the student’s work as a PDF image. You can then share their art work in your class’ LMS or even print the submission and hang it on your classroom wall!

3. Which equals a 100?

This interactive Hotspot Image widget engages students in identifying math problems that have answers equal to 100. A click reveals immediate audio feedback, making it an enjoyable math exercise for the 100th day of school or as a regular practice activity.

💡 Pro tip : To create a customized image for your Hotspot, use tools like Google Slides, Adobe Express, or Canva. Then, open this widget on a smart board for a whole class activity or share this widget via a QR code to create an engaging math station activity that gets students up and moving about the room.

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Students can practice calculating the difference between two clocks using the Random Images widget . Students then click on the random icon in the corner to generate two new clock images. Share this time calculator lesson plan via QR codes to create a station activity that gets students up and moving about the room. Rather than typing in their answers, students can turn and talk to their partner or group, discussing the answer.

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7. Geometric Shape Recognition

With the Image Viewer widget , students can zoom in and out of an image, investigating what they see. In the activity below, students are tasked with identifying 5 geometrical shapes in the picture.

💡 Pro tip : Open this widget on a smart board for a whole class activity or share this widget via a QR code to create a station activity that gets students up and moving about the room. For quick differentiation and to create opprotunities for additional practice, duplicate the widget and use the Pixabay integration to locate a new image.

8. Fractions Video Quiz

Leverage students’ natural inclination for watching videos by either finding or creating explainer videos to introduce new math topics. This approach taps into their visual learning capabilities effectively. Students can learn about fractions in this Video Quiz activity. The video will stop at specific moments for students to answer questions that check their understanding. In BookWidgets, there are 36 different question-types from which teachers may choose to include in their video quiz!

💡 Pro tip : Creating your own math explainer videos or screen recordings is pretty easy. This blog post, How Your Video Lessons Can Be Even More Successful When Your’re on Screen , provides plenty of tips and tricks. In short, you can use a variety of tools like the built-in QuickTime Player (Mac), Screencastify, Loom, mmhmm, etc. When explaining your math topic, pause at key moments–this is where you will eventually insert your questions. Upload your explainer videos to your YouTube account, and set them as “unlisted” then import them into the Video Quiz widget and add your math questions. For additional Video Quiz ideas, check out this blog post: 10+ Powerful Ways to Use an Interactive Video Quiz in your Classroom .

9. Pizza Fractions

Students can practice spatially recognizing fractions with a colorful Pair Matching widget activity. Be warned : this widget may make your students hungry! 🍕😋

💡 Pro tip : In the General tab of the widget editor, be sure to select the option to show matched card pairs “using colors and symbols” so that students with perceputal impairments can recognize when they’ve made a match.

Math Activites for Middle School

As students transition from elementary school to high school, the following free and engaging math activities reinforce the concepts learned and prepare middle school students for advanced math instruction. Even though the difficulty level may be increasing, the focus is still on making math instruction interactive, hands-on, and fun for middleschoolers. Additionally ( pun intended 😃), I’ve included examples of cross-curricular lessons that connect math instruction to art, history, and research writing.

10. Paint by Number Math Activity - More Difficult

On a Whiteboard widget with a background image, students can solve math problems and color in the image using the provided key and tools in BookWidgets. Increase the difficulty level of the problems to create a challenge for students.

💡 Pro tip : Use platforms like Google Slides, Adobe Express, or Canva to create your own custom math images by inserting textboxes of problems in the areas that you want students to color.

11. Two Factor Multiplication

Students can practice two factor multiplication problems with this Arithmetic widget activity. As students solve the problems, they earn a letter to reveal a reward word.

💡 Pro tip : If you want to increase the difficulty level, check the box to “Remove letter on wrong answer” in the General tab of the widget editor.

12. Geometric Origami

On this Whiteboard widget activity, students can practice spatial recognition and fine motor skills as they select, resize, and move shapes around the canvas to create a digital origami cat.

💡 Pro tip : If you want to increase the difficulty level and tap into students’ creativity, remove the background image on the whiteboard and have students use the stickers to create their own origami animal.

13. Hands-on Origami Video Quiz

For a fun, project-based math activity, check out this Origami Jumping Cat project made with a Video Quiz widget . Students document the creation process by snapping pictures of their paper at various stages and answer an audo-response question to reflect on the experience.

💡 Pro tip : You could turn this into a weekly, fun Friday math activity by swapping out the Origami Cat video for other origami creature videos.

14. Angles for Discussion

Using a Split Whiteboard widget , students can not only demonstrate their understanding, but can also use this engaging math activity to practice their speaking skills as they draw and explain the angles with a partner.

💡 Pro tip : Just as with the Whiteboard widget , you can save exemplary student submissions as PDFs and share them to your class’ LMS or print them for display in the classroom.

15. Famous Female Mathematicians

This Worksheet widget math activity challenges students to solve a rebus (picture puzzle) to reveal the name of a famous female mathematician. This math puzzle can serve as an introduction to a cross-curricular project where students research famous mathematicians. Highlighting the significant contributions of women in a field historically dominated by men challenges stereotypes about who can excel in math. Recognizing the contributions of famous female mathematicians inspires current and future generations of young women and girls, showing them role models who have excelled in mathematical sciences.

💡 Pro tip : Teachers can enhance questions by adding audio, offering auditory instructions and additional information. This approach eliminates lengthy lectures, allowing students to absorb content at their own pace through pause-and-play functionality. This can be integrated into a blended learning activity, where students transcribe the listened content into their notebooks. Check out this post for more information: How to use Voice recording in Your Classroom–The Complete Guide .

16. Arithmetic Crossword

In this Crossword widget , students are typing in numbers rather than words to solve arithmetic problems. You can also embed crosswords using the crossword question-type in a Worksheet, Split Worksheet, Quiz, or Video Quiz widget activity.

💡 Pro tip : Duplicate this widget numerous times and remove/add/change the problems to make it harder or easier for your students and so that you have a set of ready-to-use practice math activites that you can quickly share with students when you need to fill time during a class period.

17. Math Pun Flashcards

Of course, you can use the Flashcard widget to help students learn specific math terminology and formulas , but what if you also used the flashcards to curate some awesome math puns? These puns can bring a smile and maybe even a groan or two, but either way, you can count on them to add some fun to your instruction! 😃

💡 Pro tip : You can add text, images, and audio to flashcards, as well as hints to help students study. Check out this blog post with 20 ways to use digital flashcards in your classroom .

Math Activities for High School

Elevate your high school math classroom with a suite of activities that blend engagement, fun, and skill mastery. These virtual math games and simulations aim to enhance understanding and make the learning process more dynamic, as well as connect math instruction to the world beyond the classroom. By seeing how math operates in everyday life and various professions, students can appreciate its value and are more likely to develop a lasting interest in it. This approach also equips students with problem-solving skills that are essential for success in a wide range of fields, promoting critical thinking and analytical skills that are transferable to real-world situations. And, you can connect to students’ interests by creating widgets that feature pop culture icons like Taylor Swift!

18. Math Quiz

This Quiz widget activity showcases all available math question types. BookWidgets supports LaTex formatting and provides embedded tools like a scratchpad, calculator, and equation editor for math instruction.

💡 Pro tip : Duplicate the quiz to your account to explore question creation under the ‘Questions’ tab and review all settings under the ‘General’ tab. You can customize scoring and accessibility options as needed.

19. Pop Culture Math Problems

This Worksheet widget math activity merges the worlds of music and sports through math problems based on Taylor Swift’s journey to see her boyfriend Travis Kelce play in the 2024 Super Bowl, offering students a unique opportunity to apply arithmetic, ratios, and percentages to real-life scenarios involving popular cultural figures.

💡 Pro tip : You can easily convert Worksheet widgets into other widget types by importing questions from one widget into another . For example, if students get overwhelmed by a long, scrollable page of questions in a Worksheet widget, convert it into a Quiz widget which delivers one question at a time on the screen.

20. The Equation of Love

Students manipulate and experiment with parameters like ‘a’ and ‘b,’ providing an immediate visual representation of how changes impact the plot in this Active Plot widget activity. Want more digital Valentine’s day classroom activities for math? Check out this bonus blog post .

21. Plot and Connect the Dots

In this Split Worksheet widget math activity, students follow directions to practice plotting and connecting the dots to reveal an image.

💡 Pro tip : Don’t have a class set of scientific calculators? No worry! In the ‘General’ tab, enable the embedded calculator for students to use.

22. Mind Map: Geometry formulas

Using the Mind Map widget , students can curate and review geometry formulas. In this example, Geometry Formulas serve as the main branch. Area and Perimeter, Pythagorean Theorem, and Volume Formulas are the main categories. Each of those will have subcategories where the students can write the formulas.

💡 Pro tip : Students can create a powerful math study aid that organizes all the formulas in one location. By doing so, they can easily access the formulas whenever needed!

23. Derivatives Math Memory Game

Kick off class or a conversation with a partner with this Math Derivatives Memory Game using the Memory Game widget . Students locate the pairs and discuss the meaning of each with the whole class or a partner.

💡 Pro tip : The Memory Game widget can be used for any grade level in which you want to have students practice recalling concepts learned.

24. The history of π

Check out this Timeline widget math activity for a brief history of finding π.

25. Pi jokes

Seriously, math can be funny! Check out these pi jokes that can be shared with students via the Frame Sequence widget .

26. Flip a Coin (or 3!)

When teaching about probability in a statistics course, you can add some interactivity to your math lesson by letting students do their own probability experiments. To avoid coins flying around in class, you can easily do a coin flip experiment using the Randomness Widget : let students flip the coins a few times, make them count how many heads or tails they have, and eventually they will realize the fact that there’s a 50 ⁄ 50 chance of either.

💡 Pro tip : Of course, you don’t have to use coins: you can use the Randomness widget to randomize anything, from numbers and symbols to your own custom images. Here is one that feature calculating the roll of di . Click to open

27. Sine and Cosine Visualized

The Active Plot widget allows students to play with function visualizations. For example, if we’re teaching about trigonometry, we can create an Active Plot activity for the sine and cosine functions. Enter the functions you want your students to learn about and mark which parts of the function you want your students to interact with. By playing with the coefficient sliders, students get an understanding on how the coefficients affect amplitude and frequency.

💡 Pro tip : You can take things even further: you can let students enter their own functions, or use drawing tools to draw on the plot (e.g. to indicate tangents). When they’re done, they can submit their answer to you, and you can grade them from within your dashboard. Check out this activity for plotting the world population over time . Click to open

28. Math of Music

The Active Plot widget amplifies math instruction by having students see how the impact of changes in amplitude, damping, and frequency of sound waves when a musician plucks a string on an instrument like a guitar or violin. 🎸

Math Activities for Higher Education

The next set of widgets were created and shared by teachers, Brian White and Greg Carpenter, at the Delaware Area Career Center (DACC) in Delaware, Ohio. The DACC provides unique elective courses to high school students and adult learners seeking advanced training. Not only do they collaborate with their colleagues at the DACC and share widgets with one another, but they also have a public BookWidgets group for Algebra 1 and 2 that you can join! So whether you are teaching the following math subjects in an accelerated high school class or college course, the following engaging math activities showcase how BookWidgets can be used for advanced math instruction.

29. Introduction to Imaginary and Complex Numbers

Imaginary and complex numbers are fascinating mathematical concepts that expand our understanding of the number system, introducing numbers that can represent solutions to equations that real numbers alone cannot solve. This Worksheet widget activity created by Brian White introduces students to imaginary and complex numbers.

💡 Pro tip : Enhance the visual design of your widget activty by adding a background image. Here are 10 BookWidgets design tips to spice up your digital lessons .

30. Introduction to Linear Systems

This Worksheet widget activity, also created by Brian White, introduces students to linear systems and using a graphic calculator such as this one at Desmos.com .

31. Solve Quadratic Equations by Factoring

This third example, another Worksheet widget math activity, created by Brian White features an embedded video he made for students to watch before answering the questions.

💡 Pro tip : It is easy to add video to your widget activities whether it be in the instructions or within a question. Click to open

32. Testing Results

This Worksheet widget activity created by Greg Carpenter also features a screencast he created for his students and has questions that relate to pop culture and real-world scenarios. The “P Value Method for Significance Testing of a Proportion” is a way to check if the results from a study or experiment are significant, or if they might have just happened by chance.

33. Graphing Functions

This Worksheet widget activity also created by Greg Carpenter includes a Whiteboard question for students to practice graphing functions.

💡 Pro tip : Use the feedback and annotation tools in the reporting dashboard to add comments and annotations to your students’ whiteboard responses. Click to open - Credit to Greg Carpenter

34. Matching Values

And here is one last activity from Brian White using the Pair Matching widget . Students need to match the inequality or absolute value expressions with their corresponding interval notation or number line representation.

💡 Pro tip : Turn this virtual math game into a whole class competition when you share this widget to students via a Learning Management System. Open the “ Live Widgets ” view of this activity to see a real-time leaderboard. You will quickly see who knows the material and who may need extra help– and with one click you can choose to reveal or hide student names to protect their identity when showing the leaderboard to the whole class.

As we wrap up our exploration of digital math education, it’s evident that the traditional reliance on paper, pencil, and calculators has evolved. Innovative math tools have recalculated the approach to learning, adding free interactive and engaging activities into the equation , making math instruction both dynamic and accessible. From widgets that animate problem-solving to educational math games with LaTex formatting, the possibilities are boundless for students across all educational levels, from elementary to higher education. These teacher-approved math tools and creative math activities are not just about learning; they’re about transforming the way we approach math, making it a fun and interactive experience. With every widget and exercise, BookWidgets opens up a world of interactive math learning, offering hands-on math activities and virtual math games that engage and educate, ensuring that every learner finds a pathway to deepen their math understanding and skills.

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23 Review Activities For High School

September 27, 2022 //  by  Anna Hodge

Unit and test reviews shouldn’t be painful! A simple game will make a difference in the engagement of your students and they are remembering the material. Of course, a study guide will also help, but during class review time, use some of the below examples to boost student participation and information retention.

1.  6 Review Games Video

This source uses classic game styles and reviews questions that only let students win if they can give the correct answer. During testing season these games are a must need for revision.

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2. Virtual Classroom Review Strategies

We all need to be prepared for any circumstance now and with many hybrid and fully virtual schools becoming more commonplace, it is important to know how to navigate the online teaching world. Here is a great video with 10 fun review ideas for online learning.

3. Bingo Board Review Game & More

This resource starts out with a game of BINGO with review questions and goes on to give four other fun review activities for students.

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4. Graffiti as Review

A unique and creative idea for review, this activity can be done by a single student individually or as a class. Whiteboards are useful for this exercise but not required.

Learn More: Hojo’s Teaching Adventures

5. Trashketball

You’ll have to use a paper ball or two for this math review game. This is definitely not your typical worksheet review and does take a bit of prep. However, it is engaging and can be adapted for all class sizes.

Learn More: Mrs. E Teaches Math

6.  11 History Board Games

Attention History Teachers! These 11 history board games should be put on your department order for next year. They vary in appropriateness depending on grade level, but this resource provides a great variety for many ages.

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7. Let the Cards Decide

This review activity uses game cards and can be adapted for any subject and age level. It utilizes flash cards for review to engage visual and kinetic learners alike!

8. Jenga for History Review

History teachers rejoice! Here is another fun game that is hands-on for history review. You’ll need a Jenga set for every 2-4 students depending on how you want to split up your groups.

Learn More: Active History Teacher

9. Review Stations for High School Science

A student-centric and active way to review class material for test preparation! Although this particular resource is made for science, the same ideas can be utilized in other subjects. It includes practice questions, cheatsheets, and an ask the teacher station to name a few. This is one of those fun activities that are also extremely valuable to students.

Learn More: It’s not Rocket Science Classroom

10. Ideas for High School Science Review

This resource encourages review games as well as a practice test the day before the real exam. Jeopardy has conveyed here as a clear winner and there are also online templates you can use to make your life easier.

Learn More: Rae Rocks Teaching

11. Flyswatter Game

Prep time should be fun! And this review activity fulfills that requirement ten-fold. In the Flyswatters game students work in teams to swat the correct answer to review questions. The answer sheets should be posted around the room which makes for a very lively and active lesson.

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12. BOOM Review Game

You’ll need a few materials for this review game but it is another one that can be adapted for any subject. Grab your popsicle sticks and get ready for BOOM!

13. Vocab Review Clue

Everyone loves a good mystery and Clue is the ultimate mystery game. This teacher uses Clue to review vocabulary in History but it can be used in all subjects. It does take a bit more preparation but it will surely get students excited and engaged with the material.

Learn More: Students of History

14.  ELA Test Prep

In this resource, you get many ideas and activities to implement for ELA test prep. Whole class games, station work, and review of test-taking strategies are among these ideas.

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15.  BAZINGA Review Game

A combination of questions and task cards, Bazinga is loved because the smartest group doesn’t always win. It keeps students engaged and you can add silly elements to the task cards for a bit of humor (cue dance card).

Learn More: Tales of A High School Math Teacher

16. Baseball Test Review Game

This math review game is a great way to encourage teamwork and have fellow classmates help students who are having trouble with a particular problem. The baseball element comes into play when a team is “up to bat” and has to answer correctly before forfeiting the next team.

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17. Task Card Review

Task cards can be used for review in a multitude of ways. In this resource, you are given 9 different ways to use task cards which means you can switch it up for different units or grade levels.

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 18. Humorous History Review

Modeled after “Who’s line is it anyway?” and “Party Quirks” this review game has students acting as famous people from history and having their classmates guess who they are.

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19. Test Prep Olympics

This resource is made for grade 3 but can be easily adapted for higher levels. A mix between relay games and station work, will keep students energetic and help them retain information for their upcoming assessments.

Learn More: The Applicious Teacher

20. Peer Review 

Getting feedback from your teacher is so important for your academic success, but learning how to give and receive feedback from your peers is just as important. With this review activity, students can gain valuable insight into a topic and format prior to a test.

Learn More: The Daring English Teacher

21. Biology End of Course Review

In this resource, you get 3 ways to prepare your students for their end-of-year exam in Biology. What makes this resource stand out is that one of these ways is project-based review. Expert teachers know that you need to use multiple review methods to help your students be successful in their exams. This resource gives you another take on reviewing materials besides playing games.

22. Easy Review Game

A subject-specific Pictionary game that will surely keep your students excited and engaged. If someone doesn’t like to draw, simply give them a leadership role in the game.

Learn More: Musings of A History Gal

23. Test Prep Ideas

In this resource, you not only get activities for test prep that help students retain information, but you also get activities that emotionally prepare students for exams. This is a valuable article that focuses on a holistic test prep approach.

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5 team-building activities for high school students, by: vocab gal.

In this article, you'll discover how team-building activities benefit high school students, ways to ensure team-building activities will be successful, and a variety of classroom-tested activities. Plus, download free printable team-building activities that can be used at the start of a new school year or new semester!

Benefits of Team-Building Activities for Students

Many students might groan and roll their eyes if asked to participate in these activities, but they do have significant benefits. Furthermore, many teachers might be loath to take the time to conduct these activities, although they bring with them enormous gains. Benefits of team-building activities for students include:

Provide a common experience among peers

Allow students to feel more comfortable in group settings

Require students to develop communication skills through conversations

Encourage students to learn academic content with and from one another

5 Fun Team-Building Activities for Students  

It’s critical to help develop students’ social interaction skills, which can easily be done in the classroom through team-building activities. When team-building activities are used routinely in classrooms, the classroom space becomes a shared, safe zone where students feel comfortable and ready to learn. These short games not only allow students to gain valuable skills but also develop empathy and often improve their self-esteem. 

Most activities should only take between five and ten minutes and can be used once or on multiple occasions. Classroom time is valuable, and these activities are designed to minimize time and maximize outcomes.

Activity #1– Make a Burger

Class time: 5–10 minutes, group size: 5–7 students, resources needed: burger template cut out into pieces, tape, skills focus: teamwork, trust-building.

This is a rather quick and silly team-building activity for high school students. Instruct the class that they are to work in groups to make a full hamburger that starts with a bun, and that has pickle, lettuce, tomato, cheese, meat, and another bun in that order. Tape one ingredient onto each student’s back and instruct students to work together to find all the necessary ingredients and then line up in order. The first group to do so correctly wins.

You can either play silently, or you can tell students to say what ingredient is on their backs, but instead only provide hints.

Academic Focus: Replay this game using vocabulary words and definitions, planet names, math problems and solutions, and so on.

Activity #2– Vocab Improv

Group size: any range between five students and a full class, resources needed: list of academic vocabulary to use, example video, skills focus: trust building.

Have students stand in a circle. The first student chooses a subject-related word and acts out a motion that corresponds with the word’s meaning in some way. The rest of the students in the group then echo the word and the motion together. The next student in the group chooses a new word and acts out a corresponding motion. The rest of the students then echo that word and motion, followed by the first student’s word and motion. This sequence repeats until all students in the group have their own word and motion and have reiterated everyone else’s word and motion.

To begin the game, the first student says his/her word and motion and then says another student’s word and motion. That student must say his/her word and motion and pick another student’s word and motion.

The game repeats until a called-upon student cannot recall another’s word and motion fast enough (three seconds) and is “out.” When only two people are left, both are winners.

Caveat: no student can reiterate the previous student’s word and motion.

Academic Focus: By creating motions tied to academic vocabulary and reiterating these words and motions numerous times, students develop deep connections to these words.

Try playing this game throughout the year, and have students use their peers’ previous words and motions to call upon them, as well as current words and motions.

Activity #3– Best Parts of Our School

Class time: 5–20 minutes (each part of this activity can take place on a separate day), group size: 4–6 students, resources needed: best parts of our school handout, skills focus: teamwork, leadership.

Often, students feel disgruntled about school, so this team-building activity for high school students encourages everyone to look for the positive, rather than the negative.

First, each individual should complete the top of the handout, listing three specific aspects of the school they like. Then, assign students to groups of approximately four to six, making sure that students work with people they do not know well, rather than simply working with friends. Have the students each share three ideas in their groups, and then work together to choose which ones to include in a group list of five positive aspects about their school. Next, each group selects a representative to go to the board to write down his or her group’s list.

Finally, the representatives work with the whole class in order to combine the top five lists into one class-wide top ten list. Try to post this list so students remember both working together and the positive aspects of school!

Academic Focus: Ask students to use academic vocabulary in their lists or to utilize strong writing techniques, such as action verbs or figurative language, when creating each point.

Activity #4– Create a Vocabulary Game Board

Class time: 10–60 minutes (each part of this activity can take place on a separate day), group size: 2–3 students, resources needed: activity directions, game board instruction sheet, two game board templates, game piece template, blank game cards.

Students love to play board games, so asking them to design their own provides them with a new and exciting challenge. Have students work together, possibly by formatively assessing their understanding of a concept and then grouping them in high-medium-low understanding groups. Alternatively, grouping them in like-understanding (all highs, all mediums, all lows) partnerships can also allow for thoughtful outcomes.

Have students discuss and agree upon an overall theme for the game, then complete each aspect of the board game including:

Activity Directions

Game Board Instruction Sheet

Two Game Board Templates

Game Piece Template

Blank Game Cards

Academic Focus: Take any unit that needs further review or understanding and ask students to create a board game that highlights various aspects of the concept.

Activity #5– Your Enigmatic Self

Class time: 5 minutes (spread out over multiple days), group size: 3–4 students, resources needed: enigmatic self handout.

Students write down three aspects of themselves that no one else knows. Assign students to groups of three or four and ask them to read their information to each other.

Each day, have one member of the group read all of the group’s fact sheets to begin the class and have the rest of the students guess which group member is which. Have students celebrate one another’s unique selves, and make sure to reiterate the need to respect each other.

Academic focus: Encourage students to use academic vocabulary when describing themselves.

How to Ensure Team-Building Activities Are a Success

In order for activities to be successful, classroom leaders must establish clear expectations.

INSIST ON A SAFE ZONE The most important aspect of team-building activities is that they demonstrate that the classroom is a safe zone. When working through the team-building activities with students, I emphasize my number one rule, which is mutual respect and acceptance. Students must remain positive and respectful toward their fellow learners, and that includes me!

ESTABLISH TRUST TO BUILD COMMUNITY In a classroom, a sense of community is vital in order for students to produce authentic writing, receive constructive feedback from peers, and have meaningful discussions. Emphasizing in each activity the importance of trusting one another, classroom leaders build a sense of classroom community.

EMPHASIZE EMPATHY AND ESTEEM These team-building activities encourage students to empathize with their classmates who may be different from them and will also help to build up their own self-esteem as they work with others. Classroom leaders must stress the need for students to learn from one another and to respect the similarities and differences that all of their classmates bring to each activity.

ENCOURAGE LEARNING I always like to ensure that there is an academic purpose to all aspects of classroom activities, so, as a classroom leader, I ask students to use academic vocabulary and utilize their prior learned knowledge during discussions.

(SOMETIMES) FRAME AS A COMPETITION Finally, if a classroom leader faces significant resistance from students, framing the activity as a challenge or competition can motivate them. Do remember to emphasize that the competition or challenge being carried out can be completed by everyone and that respect and ethical behavior are paramount, as some students may attempt to cheat in order to win.

The Best Time to Use Team-Building Activities

Team-building activities can happen throughout the school year. They can be used for a myriad of reasons and for a multitude of purposes.

Some classroom leaders may want to use these activities at the beginning of the school year in order to establish a classroom culture and then continue to use activities once or twice a quarter to re-establish concepts, review learning, or deepen rapport.

Other teachers may use them later in the year or at the start of the second semester in order to re-focus a classroom or for a specific unit of study.

Alternatively, classroom leaders can employ team-building activities at the end of the year to encourage more authentic peer review for assignments or as a new challenge for students.

In Conclusion

Team-building is fun and has a huge number of benefits, from developing classroom community to reinforcing academic concepts. Each of the five team-building activities allows students to learn with and from each other and deepens connections between peers.

As students become more and more disconnected from their peers and their learning because they spend much of their time on social media, team-building activities are a great way to reconnect students to their school and to their education and to have fun while doing so.

Career Exploration for Students and Kids (19 Free Resources)

By: Author Amanda L. Grossman

Posted on Last updated: December 29, 2023

Teach students and kids about careers with these 19 free worksheets and lesson plans. Career exploration for students to do.

One of the most important reasons behind a formal education – besides teaching your students how to think for themselves – is to get kids ready to take on an engaging and exciting career.

And a career? Well, that’s the foundation to any person being able financially provide for themselves – what we call, financial independence.

That’s why I take a real interest in helping kids, tweens, and teens get the best fun career exploration activities resources out there.

So that one day, they can find a fulfilling job and be able to earn enough money to not only survive, but thrive.

Career Exploration for Students

What all is involved in career exploration for students?

To be honest, there’s a lot to cover here.

You want to provide fun and engaging activities for topics like:

• Understanding Careers : The foundational blocks of understanding how a person earns money, having a job versus working on a career, how to develop your career, etc.
• Career Interest Assessments : Which careers intersect a child’s natural abilities and a child’s interests?
• Career Investigation : What does a day look like when holding down a job in one of those career fields that interests a student? What’s the salary like? This can include activities in the classroom, research, and also shadowing.
• Skill Identification and Development : What skills do they need to pursue a job that interests them? What level of education would they need?
• Understanding How to Get Hired : Things like interviews, creating a resume, job searches, etc. are critical for students to know how to do.
• Career Stepping Stones : What steps can the student take right now (and before they graduate high school) in order to set themselves just a few steps closer to getting into that career field (i.e. internships, volunteer activities, writing a first resume (here are free teen resume templates ), type of afterschool/weekend jobs)?
• Income and Paycheck Management : Discussing how to not only manage a paycheck from a real-job, but also how to manage your career so that your income more than matches current cost of living needs. Also, going over paycheck taxes, pay type (salary, hourly, commissions), insurance, workplace retirement contributions, and other deductions.

Whew – that list wasn’t meant to overwhelm you.

Rather, I wanted to inspire you with what an important and life-changing topic you’re covering with your students and kids.

Plus, to outline some of the areas you can cover with these fun career activities and resources I’ve found for you, below.

Career Exploration for Kids – Free Career Assessments

First up, let’s talk about how to get your kids and students actually interested in career exploration activities.

There’s no better way to pique a student’s interest than to find out what THEY are most interested in learning about.

One way to do this is to start off your unit of study with free career assessments.

1. Truity.com Career Assessment

I spoke with the people at Truity.com, and they said a good age minimum to take their free career assessment is 14/15 years of age.

The test is free to take, plus you get a basic report with results. You don’t even need to have a student register for them to do this!

However, if you want to be able to view each of your student’s results, you’d have to sign up for a Pro account.

2. CareerOneStop’s Career Assessment

This free, 30-question career quiz from the U.S. Department of Labor will help a student figure out some possible career choices.

3. O*NET Interest Profiler

Another career assessment test sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor is O*NET’s interest profiler. There are 60 questions in total.

Psst: want even more career websites for students? Here's 14 career websites for high school students .

4. CommonLit Career Day at Pixie Academy

Age: 4th Grade

Here's a reading passage that's centered around some great career and job terms. The theme of the story is Pixie finding a new job.

Assessment questions and a teacher's guide are included.

Career Exploration Worksheets for Students

While I don’t recommend you center your entire career unit around career exploration worksheets, the ones below can definitely add to students discovering jobs, industries, etc.

1. Find Your “Right Now” Job

Suggested Grades: 6-8

Scholastic has some fantastic worksheets and lesson plans to help with career exploration for students.

In the “ Find Your Right Now Job ” worksheet, students will research jobs and apprenticeships around their area of interests to find two jobs that they could apply to (when they're a bit older).

2. Career Research Worksheet

Here’s a simple, one-page worksheet you can get for free with a free account on Teachers Pay Teachers.

It will help focus your student’s career research.

3. Career Family Tree

This free worksheet of fun career activities has an idea that I love – for students to create a family career tree. They’ll need to ask family members and do the research, which of course is a great way for kids to understand their loved ones even better (plus to learn a thing or two).

4. Classroom Job Application

With a free Teachers Pay Teachers account, get this simple classroom job application your students can fill out to “apply” for classroom jobs.

5. Earning Income Career Earning Worksheet

BizWorld has this free, simple worksheet to help your students research a career and salary information.

6. Collection of Career Exploration Worksheets (9-12 grades)

Here’s a bunch of different career activities and worksheets for grades 9-12 .

Worksheets include:

• Reality Check Worksheet
• Networking Bingo
• Speed Interviewing

Career Lesson Plans

Looking for more than just career preparedness worksheets?

Check out these enter career lesson plans, available for free.

Hint: many of them include both worksheets and videos.

1. National Retail Federation's Library

The National Retail Federation (NRF) has a program called RISE Up , a certifying program with curriculum that helps students and young adults get hired in the retail industry.

Check out the RISE Up classroom activities section to find lots of short videos from people actually in the retail industry, answering questions students might have and teaching students about their industry. It also includes a worksheet for each video.

2. PWC’s Earn Your Future Digital Classroom

Check out Level 3 (for Grades 9 – 12), Module Chart Your Course . It talks about:

• The relationship between education and careers
• The opportunity cost of pursuing additional education
• The importance of monetary and nonmonetary compensation when selecting a job

3. BizKid’s It’s a Job to Get a Job

Download an entire lesson plan for high schoolers that include topics like:

• Job search techniques
• Interviewing
• Adding value as an employee

4. NGPF's Career Unit

This is a full-year course, with the following units:

• Unit Plan & Assessments
• Career Basics
• Choosing a Career
• Workplace Skills
• Finding a Job
• Your LinkedIn Profile
• Resumes & Cover Letters
• Interviewing for a Job
• Outcomes of a Job Interview
• Starting a New Job
• Career Sucesss

5. Louisiana Department of Education's Virtual Workplace Experience

The state of Louisiana has come up with these free resources to help students explore careers in LA's highest-demand industries. These are project-based learning activities.

Honestly, there's a ton here.

They've broken it down into the following units:

• General Resources
• Portfolio Projects Resources
• Getting Started
• Healthcare and Pharmacy
• Automotive Service & Repair
• Construction Crafts/Skilled Trades
• Information Technology
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Transportation and Logistics
• Business Management and Finance
• Sales and Customer Service

Career Games for Kids

These career games for kids and teens create an engaging way to teach career awareness.

1. Career Charades

Age: 7-9 years

Students are asked to brainstorm lots of different careers (it's suggested that they can ask parents, grandparents, and others to come up with ideas ahead of time).

Each student writes these ideas onto a piece of paper, and everyone takes turns acting out a career while others try to guess what they're doing.

Great for better awareness about career options!

2. Claim Your Future

Students select different career paths, are given a typical salary, and then are given various spending choices. The amount of money they spend throughout the game is tracked so that they can see, and make any adjustments as needed.

3. The Payoff

Suggested Age Range: 14 years and older

Practical Money Skills has come up with another free online career game, and this time it's all about two teenagers trying to start up a business in a competitive atmosphere.

Students will have to evaluate business deals, learn how to grow their business, and how to overcome financial challenges in business and in life.

4. Auction Adventures – Auctioneer Career Game for Kids

Suggested Age Range: Grades 3-5

Being paid by commission is wayyyyy different than getting a salary (or, even, being paid hourly). You have to actually sell something to make any money!

This game has your students calculate their commission rates while, at the same time, learning about how auctioneers work in a variety of different places.

Here's a set of worksheets to go along with this game.

5. The Uber Game

Like it or not, the “gig economy” where people are not full employees of companies, but still accept gigs from them and earn a small or substantial amount of money on the side, seems to be here to stay.

So, kids should understand how this can fit into their career and money plans!

The Uber Game gives your teen a scenario, such as they have a $1,000 mortgage payment due in a week, and then asks them to try and earn enough money through accepting gigs in order to pay that bill.

Can they do it? Is it hard or easy? Can they sustain themselves on a gig job?

Psst: You’ll want to check out my 31 free personal finance homeschool curriculum , as some of the resources also have free career resources.

Career Research for Students

When students research a career, they need to look at it from several different angles before deciding if it’s possibly on their “Career Hitlist”.

Here are the different things to research for a career:

• Find Income information : Salary, or hourly pay? What’s the range? Do people have this as their only job, or do they need to supplement with a second job to “make ends meet” (i.e. pay all their bills plus save money each month)?
• Ask People and Watch Interviews : Your student will want to make sure a day in the life of a potential profession is something they’d actually be interested in. Interviewing current employees in a profession, or even watching videos where professionals are interviewed can be really helpful.
• Find Shadow Opportunities : Students can go shadow a job within your school district, or with a family/friend. Or, they can take part in a Take Your Child to Work day at their parent’s/aunt’s employer. 

Psst: Have you ever heard of CareerVillage ? Students can ask career-related questions and get them answered by professionals, for free! Students of all ages are accepted, and they’ll need to create an account (for free) to ask a question.

1. How to Research a “Day in the Life”

You want your students to feel what it’s like to be on the job in a career path they’re researching.

Help them to do this by:

• Career Biographies : There are a vast number of what I like to call career biographies that help a child understand what it’s actually like to pursue a certain career field. I’ve got an article on 22 career books for kids , broken down by age and profession type.
• Career Videos : These can be really helpful, particularly when funds don’t allow for school field trips. MyAmericanFarm.org has a great collection of 3 to 26-minute videos on all different types of agricultural careers . PathSource has an impressive collection of career interview videos. Kids Work! Has a nice collection of ca r eer videos for kids (Grades 3-8). You can also search YouTube for “Day in the Life of _______”.
• Career Shadowing : Career shadowing was quite cool when I was in high school. Students should be encouraged to shadow someone at their job, whether it’s a parent/family member, or even someone within the school district. Reach out to your principal, vice principal, administrative assistants, and anyone else working at your school district to see if you can set up some job shadowing to go along with your career unit.
• Career Interviewing : You could have your students brainstorm a list of interview questions for someone in a job they’re curious about, and then actually help them find a person to interview either by email or in person. Imagine what they could learn from the experience!
• Take Your Child to Work Day : My sister and I both took turns taking the train to Washington D.C. to my aunt’s, and then she would take us into her job at NBC for a “Take Your Child to Work Day”. It was SO neat! It’s really a perfect way to get a taste for what a day in a job looks like (not to mention, motivate a child to want to do better at school so they can get some of the cool positions they get to see). Here's how you can do take your child to work day activities .
• Career Videos : These can be really helpful, particularly when funds don’t allow for school field trips. MyAmericanFarm.org has a great collection of 3 to 26-minute videos on all different types of agricultural careers . PathSource has an impressive collection of career interview videos. Kids Work! Has a nice collection of ca r eer videos for kids (Grades 3-8).
• Career Articles : CommonLit has some Day in the Life career articles, such as A Day in the Life of an Astronaut . Also, ReadWorks has some of these articles.

2. How to Research Income Information

While it used to be difficult to figure out income averages for a career or job type, it’s quite simple nowadays thanks to some seriously great, free, resources provided by the Department of Labor.

Here’s a one-stop salary finder , where you enter the occupation and your location to get an idea of the average pay.

It also offers a listing of professions, so students can click around by career cluster (or category) and just explore.

Psst: another important thing to make students aware of through research? Are career projections. In other words, is an industry or job path they want to pursue growing, or are the jobs getting scarcer? Here’s a great resource from Workforce Solutions (for just the Houston-Galveston area, though it still drives the point home about the importance of this question) that shares percentages for various careers.

3. Lessons to Understand Paycheck Taxes and Deductions

EverFI has free financial literacy lessons for kids and students, and Lesson 3 is on income and taxes .

Students will be given different ideas about careers, as well as the pros and cons to each.

Career Projects for Middle School Students

Looking for a career project your middle school students will enjoy?

1. Middle School Exploratory Tasks

Kentucky's Department of Education has a really cool resource – a group of middle school career projects, broken down by 16 different career clusters (and 80 different career pathways within those clusters).

Not only that, but they have student work samples for each one!

There are projects and exploratory tasks for careers in:

• Agriculture
• Human Services
• … and ten others
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Public Speaking Activities for Secondary Students

Read on for six public speaking activities. Then, sign up for a free download of the activities that you can hopefully use in diverse ways, even as public speaking games. 

I earned an endorsement in “speech” for my teaching license. (I’m in Illinois.) In college, I took extra communication courses and observed high school speech classes. Plenty of my extracurricular activities (plus my classes) required me to prepare and deliver speeches. When I started teaching, I had experienced public speaking activities as a student and a teacher observer.

Still, I felt underprepared to teach public speaking. I had zero speech activities for high school students. My first year of teaching, I thought materials were lacking on the Internet, from textbooks, from anywhere (and I searched). This was pre-TpT and I was sinking or swimming. My textbook for the class was about sixty years old, and I had no teacher edition.

That first year I did lots of paddling, but over the years I grew confident in teaching a speech class. I developed fun impromptu speech activities and other speech activities for high school students.

That isn’t to say that I didn’t make mistakes ; I made plenty. Through messy lessons, too-short of lessons, and confused students, I learned to provide structure for students without squashing them. I realized how much preparation was needed. I changed basic rubrics to rubrics that encouraged students to set goals and take ownership of their improvement. Scaffolding and modeling became part of my class.

So! I improved and reflected. After years of teaching public speaking, I crafted ideas for what would help young speakers. Hopefully, these activities help your speech classes too.

What are some ice-breaker exercises that can be used in a public speaking activity?

Some ice-breaker exercises that can be used in public speaking activities include “Two Truths and a Lie,” where participants share two true statements and one false statement about themselves, and “Would You Rather,” where participants are asked to choose between two options and explain their choice.

What about public speaking games?

Sometimes, structure helps young speakers, so I created these public speaking activities to address common areas of concern with high schoolers. Most students fear the nature of a speech class, use too many fillers when speaking, and focus on one area, such as volume and forget about the rest: non-verbal communication, tone, eye contact, etc.

Through coaching speech, spending many weekends at speech tournaments, and teaching public speaking, I created these public speaking activities. I’ve seen variations of these or adapted these from activities geared toward younger students. These speech activities should work well with high school students, but you can modify them for middle school or college speech classes.

These are included in my public speaking unit as well because they can be used numerous times.

Fillers can distract an audience from hearing a really well-developed speech. First, not all fillers are bad. We naturally pause and add fillers. The abundance of fillers, however, can be distracting.

Sometimes speech students are unaware that they use fillers. Other times, students become nervous, pause, and fill the empty time with a filler. Talk with students about the reasons why fillers occur and if they have a time they rely on one. Showing compassion and understanding about a common problem during speeches will relax students, and they will be more likely to work on eliminating an abundance of fillers.

After showing compassion, play public speaking games to address filler words.

Before starting, choose your topic and write a list of common fillers that don’t positively add to spoken communication: um, yeah, like, uh. Ask students to contribute to the list. I normally write the list so that students can consult it.

Instruct students to speak for 30 seconds (vary the time if necessary) and not use any fillers. Students should realize how easily fillers creep into their speech. NOW! Everyone uses some fillers, and fillers can make public speaking natural. However, too many fillers can distract audiences.

Each student will give a short speech for 30 seconds. The topic isn’t too important. You can choose one for the entire class or allow students to choose.

Students must restart their speech if they use a filler. Some students will try to pause and draw out the speech by not speaking, but most students speak at a normal pace. Overall, the audience is compassionate toward the speaker because everyone realizes the difficulty of not relying on these words.

This activity is perfect after the first formal speech. Students need to decompress, but they also need to eliminate fillers. When I ask students to write goals for their future speeches, eliminating fillers is a common goal.

2. Nonverbal practice

Nonverbal communication matters. To help students experience that, ask them to perform an activity where the focus is nonverbal communication.

Students will line up in alphabetical order only using nonverbal communication. I have students line up by order of their middle names since they typically know everyone’s last names. They experiment with different forms of nonverbal communication and have fun. Most often they make a capital letter with their fingers. If some students know middle names, they will switch classmates around.

The real practice is when students realize many of them have a middle name that starts with the same letter. “A” is a common one. Then students must figure out how to communicate the second letters of Aarron, Ann, Alice, and Abraham. I will say I’ve never had a class line up correctly.

This activity is the perfect introduction to nonverbal communication. As students continue through the semester, they’ll be able to focus on purposeful movements that emphasize their points. This nonverbal activity breaks the ice as you start to work on nonverbal communication. I never plan on this nonverbal practice becoming a public speaking game, but it often does.

3. One goal

Speeches can overwhelm students. Help students focus on one goal. The best part about the “one goal” activity is that students choose their focus which creates less work for you and buy-in for students.

As students continue with class, ask them what area they see as the greatest potential for improvement. Brainstorm areas as a class. There is no right or wrong! Students normally list eye contact, proper volume level, appropriate nonverbal communication, and natural movement. Then let students decide what they desire to improve.

Students will individually decide what they want to improve in their speaking—they will each have a goal. Some students want to work on eye contact, others want to balance their volume, others want to stop fidgeting. Then I divide students into small groups. Students will practice the current speech they are creating, receiving constructive feedback when they need to correct an action to meet their goal. Their group will also tell them when they did well and moved toward meeting their goal.

(This is a bit like #1 but fillers are such a huge issue with high school orators that it gets its own activity.) I normally do this activity later in the year after students are comfortable with each other. I also don’t do this activity if I feel a class may not give meaningful feedback. Finally, I share with students that improving in an area is part of most jobs. In teaching, for example, teachers often record themselves and reflect on the video later. They then develop goals for improvement in their profession. (Sometimes it is a public speaking goal!)

This activity works well to meet individual goals and to build classroom community. My speech rubrics contain a spot for consideration on improvement of a goal. Plus, the art of reflection will serve students in any field or career, so I stress that message to them. This focused practice works well because it encourages students to work on a goal in which the teacher had very little involvement.

4. M&M/ Skittles

Who doesn’t like candy? With this fun exercise, students share information about a topic. You’ll get students talking in a low-stress, engaging way.

This candy activity is fun and quick. Bring a large bag of small candies like M&M or Skittles to class. Ask students to take as many pieces of candy as they like, but stress not to eat the candies yet. Pass the bag around. Then, students must tell a fact about themselves for each piece of candy. 15 pieces of candy? 15 facts.

This also works with review. 5 pieces of candy? Review 5 facts with the class concerning public speaking terms. After speaking, students may eat their candy. I’ve used a similar process in other classes to review material.

This activity works well as a review or as a first day of school activity. Students are publicly speaking in their speech class on the first day of school without any feedback or real regulations. Since the process is fun, their first experience in class is a positive one. Plus, the candy aspect lends itself to making a public speaking game.

5. Impromptu

Most speeches in real life are actually impromptu speeches. Interviews, business meetings, and proposal presentations require people to think quickly and to speak eloquently, all while proving their point. Body language matters too!

Activate prior knowledge with a bit of an anticipatory set. Ask students about a time they gave an impromptu speech (even though they did not probably label it “impromptu” at the time!). Most people can relate to the frustration of having ideas but not conveying them well. Many times, people think of what they should have said days later! Students probably face this frustration. Acknowledge that feeling, share they you’ve experienced it too, and supply a solution.

Thinking and speaking on your feet might come naturally to some people. With practice, even those who struggle to articulate their ideas under pressure can improve.

Have students organize a speech quickly by delivering an impromptu speech. Often I would ask a class to write a topic on a piece of paper. (Sometimes I would say that the topic needed to be persuasive or informative—but it always needed to be clean.) Students would write their topic, add it to a box, and draw from a box. The topics were great because I didn’t make them and because students knew they had the potential to draw their own.

After drawing, provide 30 seconds to outline their speech. Then, students will talk about the topic for one minute. As the school year continued, I would increase the speaking time.

Older students who have been in class for a bit will probably organize their speech with a general introductory statement, two concepts, and a concluding statement. (That varies, of course.) If students struggle with the format, create a quick outline they can apply to their topics.

Students enjoy creating their own topics and learn to speak on the spot in a mature, organized manner. At first, students groan about impromptu speaking. This area is actually where I see the most growth. Students gain confidence that they can think and speak quickly, and they start to enjoy the process.

Tone matters! Many adults don’t realize the tone that they convey shapes their communication. We should certainly work with our students concerning tone so that they are aware of its power. Not only can the wrong tone hurt speakers, but the right tone can also emphasize their message.

Define “tone” for students. Brainstorm times that students know their tone has affected them. (Normally students share stories about times they were in trouble with their parents for having the wrong tone.) Then think of times that the right tone conveyed the correct message. Students might struggle to come up with examples for best use of tone. Oftentimes, a tone that matches a speaker’s message doesn’t stand out, and that is probably because the tone was woven into the message so well.

Experiment with tone with students. Put students into groups, and assign a speaker. (Everyone will have the chance to be a speaker.) Give the speaker a list of emotions and a list of generic statements. Then ask the speaker to choose a question and an emotion that conveys tone.

Finally, the rest of the group must decide the speaker’s tone. This opportunity allows for discussion about intentional tone and miscommunication. You’ll want to circulate as students practice this.

Public speaking activities can be engaging and memorable. Students might be nervous about giving speeches, so provide a variety of opportunities for them to practice. As you build a classroom community, these activities easily can become public speaking games.

Work on material slowly and purposefully. By helping students see success with public speaking, they will gain more confidence in your speech class and in life. Soon, your speech activities for high school students will be personalized and fit your community.

As you incorporate these public speaking games and activities into your speech units, you’ll discover that they are easily adaptable. Plus, you’ll find the perfect timing for each exercise. Teaching public speaking requires experimentation and reflection. I hope these help!

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Study Skills Worksheets For High School

Disclosure: I received  Study Skills  from  Mr. D Math  for free, and was compensated for my time. I was not required to give a positive review. All opinions are 100% my own. Study skills worksheets for high schoolers are included in the course and this post.

Are your high schoolers looking for a way to upgrade their study skills? Look no further! Our new study skills worksheets for high school can help you get organized, focus, and get the most out of your studies. With these tools, your high schoolers will start feeling like ace students in no time!

So what are you waiting for? Get started today and unlock the potential of your hard work with these tips:

• Organize your workspace – Get rid of any distractions and create a neat workspace where you can focus on your studies.
• Set goals – Set specific, measurable goals that you can track and measure your progress.
• Break down tasks – Break down large tasks into smaller chunks that are easier to manage.
• Take breaks – Taking regular breaks can help you stay focused and motivated.
• Manage your time – Use a planner or calendar to keep track of your tasks and deadlines.

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Developing High school Study skills with Online Courses & worksheets

Developing effective study skills is essential for students of all ages in order to succeed academically. This is especially true for high school students who are faced with the challenge of navigating their way through a significant increase in required material. Although many are well prepared to manage the workload, there are some who need additional assistance. Study skills worksheets and an online study skills class can be excellent resources. Used together they teach Organization , Time Management , Note-taking , Test Prep, and other related topics.

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Organizational skills

Organizational skills are a vital key to success in academics. The ability to plan and organize one’s time efficiently will help students reach their goals with greater ease. Worksheets and online classes should teach how to build timelines, create calendar organization strategies, and use lists for prioritizing tasks. These help high school students stay organized and on track with their assignments.

• Time Management

Time management can be difficult to master at any age. Using worksheets that require student input such as:

• building work hours into a weekly schedule and
• tracking time spent daily on specific tasks

helps promote better work habits. These eventually become integral parts of a student’s everyday life. A study skills course guides your student down the path that will ensure your student learns a variety of study methods to create good study habits. Their newfound study skills may also show a reduction in test anxiety.

Note Taking

Note-taking is an essential skill in processing the material covered during lectures or classroom activities. For many students, this is often a daunting task, especially who struggle with taking copious notes quickly enough or grasping the essence of what’s being taught to them. Executive functioning skills, dyslexia, and dysgraphia don’t need to hamper your student’s success. They can learn study skills in different ways that will work for them and help them become a better student. Worksheets and online classes focusing on techniques such as Cornell notes and summaries will enable struggling note-takers to get back on track. The result – they can progress quickly with greater comprehension.

Study Skills for High School Students

Include these study techniques for homeschoolers.

Proper studying techniques are gained through practice. The self-discipline of

• learning to take good notes,
• set a study schedule,
• using a designated study space

are all excellent ways to improve general life skills that will continue to foster a positive relationship with self-directed learning.

Accommodating different learning styles and promoting positive attitudes about learning are all pieces to improving academic performance. Look for an online class that teaches study habits, and provides study tips. They are an excellent way for a middle school and high school student to learn a new concept that relates to so many subjects.

The main idea is to learn various study techniques and then apply these techniques to the subjects being studied. Students may find that the techniques that work for studying a foreign language and physical science are the same. Some may find that a group study session or memorizing mnemonic devices is their preferred way of learning and retaining important information. High schoolers, after taking an online study skills class, will find that using study skills worksheets is the perfect way to continue using their newfound study skills habits.

Study Skills Activities for High School

Are your homeschoolers using study skills worksheets for college and career readiness.

Study skills worksheets are a great way for homeschooled high schoolers to help their students improve their organizational and study skills . By engaging students in practice activities and giving them feedback on their work, they can help their students become excellent learners.

Studies have shown that using study skills worksheets, can help improve student achievement in areas such as reading comprehension, math problem-solving, writing essays, and critical thinking. Worksheets also build self-confidence and make the learning process enjoyable.

High school online classes like Dennis DiNoia’s Math SAT and Math ACT will help your family benefit from using study skills worksheets by providing students with a platform for practice and feedback on their progress. With regular practice, students can learn how to:

• Organize themselves
• Set usable goals
• Plan ahead for assignments
• Manage distractions
• Overcome procrastination
• Develop strategies for difficult tasks
• Take effective notes during class lectures

By adding student goal-setting sheets to the various lessons and providing feedback at regular intervals on progress toward student goals and objectives, students are motivated to strive for higher achievements than they may have ever contemplated before. Another benefit of student goal setting is that it helps homeschool parents give achievable instructions that are tailored to the individual needs of their students.

Overall, enrolling in high school online classes that use study skills worksheets provide a wide range of benefits for both homeschool parents and students alike, including:

• Improved motivation levels in those involved with learning
• Increased understanding of subject material
• Reduced stress levels
• Improved concentration while studying
• Better retention of information over time
• Improved academic success overall
• Plus many more benefits!

Types of Study Skills Worksheets

Study skills worksheets provide homeschooling high school students with the techniques necessary to be successful in the ‘classroom of life’. They are beneficial for a variety of reasons that can help boost confidence and encourage better focus. These types of worksheets can be used as supplemental materials for project-based learning and teacher or parent-led instruction. By taking the time to become familiar with the different types of study skills worksheets, you can better choose which ones will work best for your child’s unique learning style.

Reading Comprehension Worksheets

These are targeted toward helping students enhance their reading capabilities by offering activities such as multiple-choice quizzes on various topics, opinion questions, context clues, and fill-in-the-blank exercises.

Vocabulary Worksheets

Vocabulary-building worksheets are designed to introduce new words to students in a fun and educational format. Most of these sheets feature a variety of activities such as crossword puzzles, word searches, and quick writing exercises.

Note-Taking/Outlining Worksheets

These sheets focus on helping students learn how to exercise judgment when recording important facts within lectures or lessons. They will learn to discern what is important information to retain. Students will also learn to organize their notes into outlines which increase comprehension of the material presented during lectures or while reading textbooks. This is especially helpful when preparing for exams or tests that cover intricate subject matter from various sources using multiple formats such as graphic organizers or long-form statements.

Time Management Worksheets

Time management is essential for academic success in high school and beyond due to increased academic expectations. A time management worksheet can help your student prioritize tasks by providing helpful strategies such as tracking progress made each day, setting realistic goals reflectively analyzing how well they have maintained a routine throughout any given week or month etcetera.

How to Use Study Skills Worksheets in High School

High school is an important time for students. They are focusing intensely on building the skills needed to become successful adults. Working with study skills worksheets can be a great way for high school students to develop practical skills for academic and professional success.

Study skills worksheets provide guidance in a variety of topics, including:

• Organization
• Goal Setting
• Memory Techniques

They can help high schoolers create strategies and processes that will become invaluable during college and beyond. By helping young people develop better habits now and giving them the confidence needed to apply their academic knowledge to the real world, study skills worksheets and online study skills classes can be powerful tools in helping them get ready for life after high school.

Study skills worksheets should be utilized within the class setting or in special study labs offered for highly specific subjects. When used as part of an organized lesson plan or curriculum, these sheets can help young people learn how to:

• Organize their work more effectively
• Apply critical thinking to solve problems
• Set realistic goals
• Stay motivated to keep up with their studies

With today’s technology available at almost every turn, it is important that students learn how not only to use technology but also how it relates to their studies as well. Online study skills classes that use study skills worksheets provide an ideal opportunity for youth to explore many full-featured web-based applications like Microsoft Excel or Word while honing their understanding of topics related to their educational focus. In addition, multimedia software-based digital skill-building activities like building games can add engaging variety to any syllabus where paper-based solutions may seem old-fashioned or dull.

Examples of Study Skills Worksheets

Study skills worksheets, when coupled with a self-paced class , can be a useful tool in teaching high school students how to approach studying and learning. These worksheets give students the opportunity to practice, experiment, and apply new material in an engaging and interactive way.

Some examples of study skills worksheets that are using in self-paced classes are:

• Goal setting : Students use this worksheet to either set academic goals for a given semester or choose individual tasks that will help them reach their academic goals.
• Group work : This worksheet assigns roles, sets a timeline, and encourages collaboration when working on projects.
• Time management : This type of worksheet helps students keep track of the number of hours they spend studying each day and dedicate time specifically for studying..
• Study plan : This kind of study skills sheet focuses on helping students allocate time effectively by breaking up courses into manageable sections and then scheduling specific times throughout each week to study those sections.
• File organization : Using this type of sheet, students can learn how to keep their desks organized, create digital folders or filing systems to store documents, and plan out strategies to stay organized throughout semesters or school years.

A good online study skills course will incorporate these types of study skills worksheets throughout the entire course. They will also help your student learn how to use each one effectively.

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Best practices for implementing study skills worksheets.

Study skills worksheets offer a variety of activities and strategies that students can use to develop important academic skills. Incorporating them into the teaching-learning process helps to reinforce key principles, encourages creativity, and increases student engagement. However, for study skills worksheets to be effective, homeschool parents and online teachers must consider how the worksheets fit into their overall curriculum and what best practices exist for implementing them in high school coursework.

Best practices include:

• Closely monitoring how much time is spent on each worksheet;
• Adjusting difficulty levels accordingly;
• Providing clear instructions on the purpose of each activity;
• Providing positive reinforcement when appropriate;
• Ensuring accuracy and validity in content;
• Designing activities to accommodate different learning levels or styles;
• Utilizing a variety of resources, including online materials or supplemental curriculum supplements;
• Using interactive elements like discussion prompts or simulations to encourage student engagement; and
• Routinely varying worksheets’ types, formats, topics, and tasks.

By taking these best practices into account when creating and utilizing study skills worksheets for secondary students, they will become prepared learners for success throughout their educational careers. Implementing these strategies will foster active learning environments conducive to higher-quality learning outcomes.

Study Skills for Successful Test Taking

When studying for tests, it is essential to plan ahead and make sure that materials are organized and prepared in a timely fashion. To help with this process, use sample study skill worksheets or online courses that specifically address test preparation and essay writing tips for high school students. Additionally, there are lots of ways to find other learning resources that may help, such as:

• Online tutorials
• Study groups or private tutors that offer assistance from more experienced peers or professionals

By taking advantage of these resources, any student can take control of their education by becoming an equipped and prepared learner.

Academic Success with Study skills courses & Resources

It is important to remember that while developing successful study skills requires effort and dedication, it can be done. online course and digital resources make it so easy to find success. It is also important to realize that the best results come when students work with a variety of different tools, strategies, and resources to learn what works best for them. Study skills worksheets coupled with an online study skills course can be a very helpful way for high schoolers to start the process of mastering their own academic lives.

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7 Fun Figurative Language Activities For High School Students

Figurative language is like a magic wand for words! It transforms the dull and mundane into something magical and enchanting. With figurative language, one can make an ordinary sentence soar like a bird, dance like a flame, or sparkle like diamonds. It’s like adding secret spices to a recipe, giving words a unique and flavorful twist that makes them stand out from the crowd. Whether you’re describing a sunset as “a canvas painted by the gods” or a river as “a ribbon of silver,” figurative language brings your words to life and makes them more memorable.

For high schoolers, mastery over figurative language can bring a unique set of skills. Be it expressive arts, communication, or articulation, figurative language is a must. While worksheets do help, the below-mentioned classroom activities can give a slightly tough competition to them, in terms of learning and fun. So, do check them out!

Activities to brush up figurative language skills 

From geography activities to lunchtime activities , most activities focus on making the kids well-versed in a certain concept. Similarly, Figurative language is meant to make communication fun, so, here are some activities that will make the learning process fun in itself!

1. Metaphor matching game

The metaphor-matching game asks students to work in pairs or small groups to match common expressions with their underlying metaphors. 

To prepare for the game, students have to compile a list of expressions such as “life is a journey,” “love is a rose,” etc. Then, they have to write each expression on a separate card and write the corresponding metaphor on another card (e.g. “life is a journey” would have “journey” as its metaphor). After jumbling up the cards, students can take turns drawing one card from each pile, trying to match the expression with its metaphor. If they get it right, they keep the cards. If not, they return the cards to the pile and draw again. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins.

 2. Simile scavenger hunt

The simile scavenger hunt would be amongst the most loved games by high schoolers. In this activity, students work individually or in teams to find examples of similes in literature, media, or daily life. 

Each student/team is given a list of common similes (e.g. “as easy as pie,” “as fast as a cheetah”) and would be asked to find and write down the source (book, movie, song, etc.) and context of each simile they find. When they’re done, ask students to share their findings and discuss why the simile was used in each context.

3. Personification poem

A personification poem can be the perfect way to indulge students in artistic expressions of words. In the activity, students have to write a poem that personifies an inanimate object or idea. 

Starting with students brainstorming a list of inanimate objects or ideas they could personify (e.g. the moon, wind, time). Next, the students would have to choose one item from their list and write a poem that gives it human qualities, thoughts, and emotions. Students can be encouraged to use vivid imagery and figurative language in their poems. When they’re done, students can be asked to share their poems with the class and discuss the use of personification in each one.

 3. Hyperbole challenge

The hyperbole challenge wants students to get all hyped up and write short scenes or speeches exaggerating a situation to the point of absurdity.

The activity can be kickstarted by giving students a list of common hyperboles (e.g. “I’ve been waiting for an hour,” “that backpack weighs a ton”). Then, ask them to write a short scene or speech that incorporates one of the hyperboles in a way that is obviously untrue. The hyperbole challenge inspires students to be creative and funny and when they’re done, ask students to share their scenes or speeches with the class and discuss the use of hyperbole in each one.

 5. Irony role-play

Involving drama and dialogues, the irony role play can be a great way for students to learn the expressive side of figurative speech. In the irony role play, students act out a scenario that demonstrates situational irony. 

Teachers can give students a list of common scenarios that often involve irony (e.g. a plumber’s house has leaky pipes, and a traffic cop gets a speeding ticket). After students have chosen a scenario from the list, they can be asked to create a short skit that demonstrates situational irony. When they’re done, students can perform their skits for the class and discuss the use of irony in each one.

 6. Symbolism slideshow

Symbolic knowledge is an important aspect of life. So, in this activity, students would be involved in the presentation on the use of symbols in art, literature, or politics.

To begin the process,  students have to brainstorm a list of symbols that are commonly used in art, literature, or politics (e.g. the American flag, the cross, the hammer, and the sickle). Next, they have to choose one symbol from their list and create a slideshow that explains the symbolism of the symbol, its history, and examples of its use in art, literature, or politics. Students must be encouraged to use images and examples to support their explanations. When they’re done, they can present their slideshows. 

 7. Idiom interpretation

Idioms can be a very enriching addition to a high schooler’s vocabulary, and what better than an activity to help them engage with the concept. In this activity, students interpret the meaning of idioms in context and explain their figurative meaning. 

Students can start by creating a list of common idioms (e.g. “to pull someone’s leg,” “to let the cat out of the bag”) and write short sentences that use each idiom in context. Then, they can work in pairs or small groups to interpret the meaning of each idiom based on its context and explain its figurative meaning. When they’re done, students can be asked to share their interpretations with the class and discuss any differences or similarities in their interpretations. This activity can be done in a written format or as a class discussion.

Why is it called Figurative Language? Can I call it something else?

Figurative language has a long-standing history in literature, poetry, and everyday speech for centuries, adding interest and meaning to language, and making it more memorable and engaging. Why one may ask? The answer is simple, figurative language goes well beyond the literal meaning of words and phrases, making expressions of speech more profound and rich. 

In literal terms, figurative language refers to the use of words or expressions in a non-literal sense to add depth, interest, and creativity to written or spoken language. It can help convey meaning and emotions in a way that is more imaginative, evocative, and memorable than simple literal language. 

While figurative language is the most commonly used term, it can also be referred to as a literary language, imaginative language, metaphorical language, symbolic language, or even non-literal language. These terms refer to the same concept of using language in a way that goes beyond its literal definition to add depth, meaning, and interest. Different fields of study or specific contexts may use different terms, but they all refer to the same basic idea of using language in a creative and imaginative way.

Figurative language can be a valuable tool in our linguistic arsenal that can bring life and emotion to our words. Whether it’s through metaphors, similes, or personification, figurative language helps us connect with people on a deeper level, creating memorable moments and leaving lasting impressions. So with the help of these activities,  let your imagination soar, for the sky’s the limit when it comes to expressing yourself creatively.

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Career Planning Worksheets for High School Students

Check out these fun worksheets to help you teach your high school students how to plan for a career.

As a teacher or homeschooler of high school students, you know how crucial career planning is for them. They will be heading off to the workforce soon and need the tools to succeed and thrive in a career. Fortunately, educators can use many practical teaching tools to their advantage. Let’s take a look at some of the best worksheets to teach career planning to your high schoolers.

Career Assessment Worksheets

Many students have no idea what career path they want to follow. Taking assessments that highlight their interests can be excellent starting points. Here are some career assessment worksheets:

• MyMn Career Plan : These extensive worksheets begin with an assessment to gauge student interests, match careers to those interests, and show paths to reaching career goals. ( Recommended for 9 th graders, but good for 9 th – 12 th )
• Brand Evaluation Worksheet: This worksheet (see Blackline Master 3a) has students self-reflect on their strengths and needs, fine-tuning the attributes that will help them in specific careers. ( Grades 9 -12 )
• UCanGo2 Student Workbook: This workbook has worksheets that cover the whole gamut of career planning. See “What Do You Want to Be?” (pgs. 7-8) and “Career Interests” (starting on pg. 11) to dive into career assessment and strength identification. ( 11 th -12 th grade )
• Stages of Career Worksheet: This worksheet involves kids discovering interests and possible career choices. ( Ideal for high school special education, but can be used in gen. ed, too)
• RIASEC Test: Students fill out this worksheet to get an idea of possible careers, with categories like Realistic, Artistic, Investigative, and Enterprising, to get them on their way. ( 9 th – 12 th )

Career Exploration Worksheets

Once students have an idea of their desired career cluster, they can focus on some jobs within that segment. Here are some worksheets to help them research their dream job:

• Worksheet for Researching Occupations: This worksheet requires students to research and fill in relevant information about specific careers. ( 9 th – 12 th grade)
• Developing My Career Plan: This worksheet (see page 20) has students list their career goals, interests, and training needed to reach their goals. ( 9 th – 10 th grade)
• Career Exploration: These worksheets are stand-alone activities students can complete independently to learn more about specific careers. ( 9 th – 12 th grade)
• Career Exploration Webquest: In this worksheet , students go on a Webquest and complete the sheet with the information they find. ( best for 10 th grade, but good for others)
• Career Exploration One-Pager: This worksheet keeps kids on track researching a career without overwhelming them, making it excellent for learning about job training and skills. ( 9 th – 10 th grade)

Career Readiness Worksheets

As students figure out specific careers, they can begin to plan how to prepare to land the job. These worksheets focus on interviewing, soft skills, and tips to get into their career.

• Networking BINGO Worksheet: This worksheet (Blackline Master 6a )goes along with a group “networking” activity, in which students learn the art of building connections to make job searching easier and more productive. ( 11 th – 12 th grade)
• Speed Interviewing: Students complete this worksheet (Blackline Master 11a) as they assess their partner’s interviewing skills. ( 11 th – 12 th grade)
• Self-Evaluation of Workplace Readiness Skills: This worksheet guides kids through various categories to see if they’re ready for their careers. ( 9 th – 12 th grade)
• Job Interview Questions: This worksheet lists 99 sample interview questions to prepare your kids for the big day. ( 9 th – 12 th grade)
• Career Research Handout: This worksheet combines all the elements, having kids list qualifications, salary, skills, and education/training needed to prepare for specific careers. ( 9 th – 12 th grade)

Application and Resume Worksheets

Now that your students have inventoried their interests, honed in on a career, and learned the skills to land their job, they can focus on the hands-on side of career planning. They learn to fill out applications and complete resumes, which these worksheets can help teach them.

• Customized Resumes: These worksheets (Blackline Master 7a) show students resumes with problems they need to identify and improve. ( 9 th – 12 th grade)
• Application for Employment: Students need to correct the mistakes on a job application in this worksheet , preparing them for the near future. ( 9 th – 12 th grade)
• Pocket Resume for High School Students: Kids see what information they need to know for resumés in this worksheet and write it down for later use. ( 9 th – 12 th grade)
• Volunteering Tree Diagram: Volunteering is crucial for resumé building, and this worksheet provides a space for students to map out their volunteering activities. ( 11 th – 12 th grade)
• STEM Careers Research and Application: These worksheets go through the whole career planning process, from narrowing in on a career to training requirements to preparing to apply for the job. ( 9 th – 12 th grade)

Check out our teacher’s hub for teaching career planning to students for more lesson plans, learning objectives, teaching tips, and other resources for all grade levels.

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Engage your high school students with this comprehensive worksheet designed to explore the upcoming solar eclipse occurring on April 8th, 2024. This worksheet is perfect for science classrooms, astronomy clubs, or homeschool settings seeking to delve into the science and significance of solar eclipses.

What's Included:

• 10 thought-provoking questions covering various aspects of the April 8th, 2024 solar eclipse, including its path of totality, safety precautions, historical significance, and scientific research opportunities.
• A bonus question for students to research and reflect on cultural beliefs and perspectives associated with solar eclipses.
• A reflection section to encourage students to think critically about what they've learned and their insights on the event.

Key Features:

• Aligned with high school-level curriculum standards, this worksheet promotes inquiry-based learning and critical thinking skills.
• Provides an opportunity for students to apply their knowledge of astronomy to a real-world astronomical event.
• Supports differentiated instruction by offering a mix of factual questions, research prompts, and reflective exercises.
• Enhances student engagement and interest in science through exploration of a fascinating celestial phenomenon.

How to Use (Google Classroom OR print out): Simply print and distribute this worksheet to your students before or after discussing solar eclipses in class. It can be used as an individual assignment, a group activity, or even as homework. Encourage students to conduct additional research online or in the library to deepen their understanding of the April 8th, 2024 solar eclipse.

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