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Brain Breaks

Use these apps to give students' brains a short mental recess or reset.

Lemonade Stand
Lemonade Stand FROM BLAIR DRAXLER
apphive.us/lemonadestand

Run a successful lemonade stand and learn about supply, demand, and profit margins!

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Number Crunch
Number Crunch FROM DONNA GOLIGHTLY
apphive.us/number-crunch-2026

Crack the hidden equation in 6 tries! Colour clues guide you: green = right spot, purple = wrong spot. 3 grid sizes, emoji cipher modes, hints & class challenge codes. Inspired by nerdle.

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The Reverse Card
The Reverse Card FROM TONY VINCENT
apphive.us/reverse

Think you can talk backwards? Draw a card, give it a try, then hear the hilarious results in reverse.

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Say It Like You Mean It
Say It Like You Mean It Connected app
FROM TONY VINCENT
apphive.us/sayit

A fun whole-class activity where students reveal surprise prompts that transform the same phrase into five unique performances.

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Which One Are You Today?
Which One Are You Today? FROM SHANA RAMIN
apphive.us/which-one-are-you

A fun classroom check-in tool with 30+ themed categories, a live tally, and fullscreen smartboard mode β€” plus the ability to create and save your own.

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Textreme 2000
Textreme 2000 Connected appShort link
FROM TONY VINCENT
apphive.us/textreme

Think you can text like an old-timer? Tap number keys to spell words on a retro cell phone. Beat the clock and claim your spot on the leaderboard!

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Calming Room
Calming Room FROM MANDI BUSH
apphive.us/calmingroom

Designed to help you practice self-care, manage emotions, and build resilience. It combines interactive mindfulness tools with browser-synthesized ambient sounds and live nature portals.

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Black Box Challenge
Black Box Challenge FROM PJ
apphive.us/blackbox

Fire rays into a black box and use hits, deflections, and reflections to determine the positions of four hidden objects using as few rays as possible.

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Sandscape
Sandscape FROM MIKE DAVOLA
apphive.us/sandscape

Inspired by thisissand.com without the public gallery. Added textured and pure color modes. Comment if you can think of more ideas!

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Shapegrams Junior
Shapegrams Junior Connected appEmail enabled
FROM TONY VINCENT
apphive.us/shapegrams

Picture puzzles that help young learners practice dragging, rotating, resizing, and coloring shapes while learning how shapes can be combined to create something new.

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Color Heartist
Color Heartist FROM TONY VINCENT
apphive.us/heartist

Give a heart made of isosceles triangles a beautiful color scheme.

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Glance & Guess!
Glance & Guess! FROM TONY VINCENT
apphive.us/glance

You’ve got up to 10 seconds to estimate the number of emojis you see on the screen. Your score for each round is the difference between your guess and the actual count. Final score after 5 rounds.

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Lesson Libs
Lesson Libs AI enabledShort link FROM TONY VINCENT
apphive.us/lesson-libs

Turn the passage you enter into something silly by replacing words. Great whole class activity for reviewing or previewing content.

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Pangram Slam
Pangram Slam FROM TONY VINCENT
apphive.us/pangram-slam

A pangram is a clever sentence that uses every single letter of the alphabet! Can you write one using emojis as inspiration?

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Heart Tangram
Heart Tangram FROM TONY VINCENT
apphive.us/heart-tangram

Fit the pieces together to form a heart.

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Split the W
Split the W FROM MR. W
apphive.us/splitthew

Can you get the maximum points by splitting the W in the middle?! You have THREE tries!

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Silly Story Builder
Silly Story Builder FROM NICOLE P
apphive.us/sillystorybuilder

This is a silly story builder to practice 2 step scanning for switch users.

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Choice Cart
Choice Cart FROM MR. NICK PASCARELLA
apphive.us/choice-cart

Steer the Kindness Cart! Discuss 50 ethical dilemmas in Classroom Mode, or play the 25-scenario Solo Adventure to manage your Joy, Brains, Pals, and Coins.

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Hydro-Toss
Hydro-Toss FROM TORRENCE JONES
apphive.us/hydro-toss

Remember the toys that feature a water-filled chamber? Players press buttons to create air currents, aiming to move small objects like rings or balls into specific targets.

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Mastermind Game
Mastermind Game FROM SAMUEL WILLIS
apphive.us/mastermind

Full featured Mastermind game for students to play. Leader boards, themes, different challenge levels, and color blind friendly.

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Logic Vault
Logic Vault AI enabled FROM BRIAN BRIGGS
apphive.us/logicvault

Logic Vault is a Mastermind-style code-cracking game for one projected screen. Play Two Students or Teacher vs. Class, pick a theme, and use clues to break the secret code before your guesses run out!

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Town Architect
Town Architect FROM WENDY CORBYN
apphive.us/httpssitesgooglecomkearsargeorgtown-triltown-architect

Students build pixel-art towns to master map skills, balance wants vs. needs, and manage natural and commercial resources in this interactive world-building app.

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Would You Rather? Classroom Icebreaker
Would You Rather? Classroom Icebreaker FROM BRIAN BRIGGS
wouldyouratheredu.netlify.app

AI-generated Would You Rather dilemmas for classrooms and staff meetings! Timer, live anonymous voting via QR code, and a discussion prompt every round.

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Magic button
Magic button FROM NICOLE P
apphive.us/magicbutton

This is a simple cause and effect activity. Click on the button and get a fun response plus it tracks how many times the button has been pressed on the screen.

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Pi Master Memory Trainer
Pi Master Memory Trainer FROM MR. NICK PASCARELLA
apphive.us/pimaster

How many digits of Pi can you remember? Test out your memory and become a Pi Master!

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