
Learning just got a whole lot cooler with Slip & Slide Sinkers, a fast-paced, strategy-packed game that transforms your classroom into an arena of friendly competition and critical thinking. Designed to get students moving, collaborating, and thinking on their feet, this resource is your go-to for energizing any review session or team challenge.
Imagine students working together to outsmart rivals, carefully planning their next move to score points, safeguard their progress, or sabotage their opponents—all while mastering key concepts from your class. All you’ll need is a whiteboard and a membership to EMC² Learning—we’ve got ten action-packed variants to choose from, and the fully editable slideshows that are included in each download will take care of everything else!
With gameplay that’s as dynamic as it is adaptable, Slip & Slide Sinkers is perfect for any subject area and grade level.










Why You’ll Love It
- Flexible Fun: Adaptable for a wide range of topics and teaching styles, this activity fits seamlessly into your lesson plans. Whether you’re reviewing the finer points of fractals or fractions, Slip & Slide Sinkers gives your students the power to rally with teammates in any subject area.
- Strategic Engagement: Combines teamwork, quick thinking, and strategy to keep every student invested. Have your students pick a side in a Slip & Slide Sinker showdown on the U.S. Presidents or give your students a rooting interest in a novel study about your favorite classic work of literature. The questions are fast paced, and the action is nonstop!
- Inclusive and Exciting: Whether projected for the whole class or played in small groups, it’s designed for maximum participation and enjoyment. Best of all — there’s ZERO TIME ON THE BENCH, and every team has the power to submit an answer (and sink their rival players) with every single prompt that is entered into the fray. No racing to be the first to buzz in, and no low level guessing games.

From heated rivalries to triumphant high-fives, Slip & Slide Sinkers turns learning into an unforgettable adventure. Students navigate colorful game boards, make high-stakes decisions, and race to victory—all while reinforcing content knowledge and building critical thinking skills.
Each resource in the Slip & Slide Sinkers lineup also comes with an oversized PRINTABLE MAP variant to add even more larger than life action into the activity. And these maps are HUGE — standing 22″ tall and spanning a whopping 40″+ across (that’s a total of 10 sheets of printer paper arranged in a 5×2 configuration for each map). Simply click the printer icon and your oversized game map will be ready to assemble!
If you’d prefer to run *multiple* games at the same time (example: divide your class into desk groups where 5-6 students are each playing against one another in each group), feel free to print multiple copies of the oversized game map that’s included with this resource download. This will give students the ability to play as individuals in smaller clustered groups with their peers instead of working alongside of teammates.
The activities featured in this blog post are just a handful of the 900+ resources available and on their way to arrive shortly in the EMC² Learning library. This entire library is available to all members with an active Engagement Engineer or Engagement Engineer PLUS account, and is included with your annual site membership. We hope you’ll consider joining us as an Engagement Engineer to unlock a full year of site access. For complete details including our exclusive limited time offer for annual site membership, click here.