5 Types of Activities You Can Make with the Drag & Drop Activity Creator

Bring dynamic sequences to life with the Drag & Drop Activity Builder. Perfect for illustrating life cycles, scientific processes, historical events, or even steps in a complex operation, this feature allows you to present a visual flow and have students accurately place the components. Lay out your cycle or process visually on the slide (e.g., using arrows, a circular path, or numbered stages), then add dropzones for each step. Students then drag the correct text or image cards representing each stage into place.

Examples:

• Life Sciences: The butterfly life cycle (egg, larva, pupa, adult butterfly images).
• Earth Science: The water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection images/text).
• History: Stages of a historical revolution (key events in chronological order).
• Chemistry: Steps in a chemical reaction or purification process.

This activity reinforces sequential understanding and visual memory. By actively positioning elements, students solidify their grasp of how processes unfold, making abstract cycles concrete and memorable.

Transform static images into dynamic learning opportunities with the Drag & Drop Activity Builder. This feature lets you upload any image – from scientific illustrations and anatomical charts to maps and historical scenes – and then designate dropzones precisely where labels should go. Students simply drag the correct text or image labels from a bank of options onto their corresponding locations on the diagram.

Examples:

• Labeling the parts of a plant cell
• The human skeleton, or a volcano
• Identifying countries on a map, continents, or specific landforms
• Labeling the parts of a geometric shape (e.g., radius, diameter on a circle).

This interactive approach enhances visual learning and boosts retention. Students actively engage with the diagram, solidifying their understanding of terminology and the spatial relationships between different components. It’s far more engaging than simply pointing or writing in answers.

Make history and sequential events tangible by building interactive timelines. Design a visual timeline on your slide, complete with years or markers if desired. Then, strategically place dropzones at each significant point on the timeline. Provide a set of jumbled historical events, key figures, or discoveries (as text or images), and challenge students to drag them into their correct chronological positions along the timeline.

• Examples:
  Major events of a specific historical period (e.g., World War II, Ancient Egypt
• Sequencing milestones in a scientific discovery
• Ordering key plot points in a story.

Timelines provide a strong visual framework for understanding chronology and cause-and-effect relationships. The drag-and-drop interaction reinforces historical order and helps students build a mental map of events over time.

Go beyond simple text entry with an interactive “Fill in the Blank” exercise. Design sentences or paragraphs on your slide with missing words. Instead of typing, create dropzones in place of each blank. Then, provide the correct words (and perhaps a few distractors) at the bottom for students to drag into the appropriate slot.

Examples:

• Cloze passages and reading comprehension
• Completing sentences to demonstrate vocabulary knowledge
• Finishing scientific statements (e.g., “Water is composed of hydrogen and ______.”)
• Completing famous quotes or proverbs.

This interactive format is highly effective for assessing reading comprehension and reinforcing contextual vocabulary. It transforms traditional fill-in-the-blank into an engaging activity, reducing potential spelling barriers and offering a more guided, visual approach to learning and recall.

Turn mathematical practice into a hands-on activity. Set up incomplete equations, number sequences, or problem-solving steps on your slide. Place dropzones where the missing numbers, operators, or variables belong. Students then drag the correct mathematical components to complete the problem, demonstrating their understanding of arithmetic, algebra, or problem-solving procedures.

Examples:

• Filling in missing numbers in an addition or multiplication equation (e.g., “5 + __ = 12”)
• Completing a sequence of operations (e.g., “4 x ( __ + 2) = 24”)
• Placing the correct mathematical operator (+, -, x, /) into an equation.

This interactive method provides a visual and tactile way for students to engage with mathematical concepts. It allows them to experiment and correct their answers, reinforcing numerical fluency and understanding of mathematical logic in a dynamic way.