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Sort Race

Everything in its right place — as fast as your class can drag.

? How to play — 30 seconds
  1. Name your categories (2–5) and add items — picking the correct category for each as you go.
  2. In class, students come up to the computer and drag items into the columns — relay style works brilliantly (one item each).
  3. Right drop = it locks in with a ding. Wrong drop = it bounces back (+5 s if penalties are on).
  4. The clock counts up — finish all items, then race again to beat your own time.
🧭 When to use this, and what to say afterwards

Best moment: Immediately after you introduce a distinction, to find out who has actually grasped it. Short and diagnostic.

What it looks like in different courses

  • CCSTSort statements into observation, inference and speculation.
  • CCGLSort policies into market-based and regulatory.
  • CCAISort AI harms into bias, privacy and accountability.

Now ask them — the part that turns the game into learning

  1. Which item did most groups place wrongly? What made it look like it belonged somewhere else?
  2. Is there an item that could honestly sit in two categories? What would you need to know to decide?
  3. Give me a new example that belongs in this category, and say why it does.

Do not use this when: Avoid when the categories genuinely overlap in the scholarship. A game that enforces one clean answer teaches a false certainty.

✨ Make these with AI — no typing, paste them straight in
  1. Copy the prompt below.
  2. Open any AI chat you already use, upload your slides / reading / handout, and paste the prompt.
  3. Copy the AI's whole reply and paste it in the box underneath. Your builder fills itself — then edit anything you like.
You are helping a university tutor turn course material into a classroom game.

I am uploading my course material (slides, reading or handout). Use ONLY that material and write 14 items to sort, each with the one category it belongs in (use 3 or 4 categories in total).

Return plain text, ONE ITEM PER LINE, in exactly this format:
Item | Category

Two correct example lines:
A carbon tax on petrol | Market-based policy
Banning petrol cars from 2035 | Regulation

Rules:
- Separate the fields with the vertical bar | and nothing else.
- One item per line. No numbering, no bullets, no headings, no commentary.
- Never use a line break inside an item.
- Keep every field short enough to read from the back of a lecture room.
- Base every item on my uploaded material, not on general knowledge.
- Use no more than four category names, spelled identically every time.
- Every item must belong in exactly one category — no borderline cases.
- Keep each item to a few words so it fits on a draggable chip.
- Put the whole answer in ONE code block so I can copy it in one click.

⚠ Before you upload anything, stop and decide what is safe to send.Never upload student IDs, student numbers, grades, marks, results, or anything that could identify a student — and never paste them into the boxes below either. Remember that what you upload may not be yours to give away: publishers' readings, textbook chapters, exam papers, colleagues' slides and material you licensed rather than wrote are usually someone else's property. Many free AI tiers keep what you send and may train on it, so read that tool's own terms first. Protect yourself — when in doubt, upload your own summary or notes instead of the original file.

1 · The categories

2 · The items — and where each truly belongs

The class never sees your answers — only the game knows. 6–16 items makes a good race.

    CCGLCarbon pricing against regulation