Learning Technique: Drag and drop questions

• Citizenship
• Foreign language
• +2
• Primary Education
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)
• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)

Introduction

In the interactive Drag & Drop activity, students receive loose words, images, or statements that they need to drag to the correct box, image, or another place on the screen. It’s a flexible LessonUp feature you can use to create all kinds of interactive lesson ideas, fully tailored to your learning objective. What’s great about this visual activity is that it’s useful for much more than sorting words. By thinking creatively, you can use the Drag & Drop question as a digital quiz, ranking task, or educational puzzle. It becomes a creative quiz format that actively involves your students in the lesson content.

Instructions

Why is the Drag & Drop a powerful activity?

• Active processing: Students actively engage with the material as they think about the right place for a term, image, or statement.
• A lot of variety: From simple yes/no tasks to visual puzzles and ranking exercises.
• Visual and interactive: Ideal for students who learn by doing and seeing.
• Easy to adjust: You can quickly create a Drag & Drop question for any subject, from road signs to literary movements.

How do you create a Drag & Drop in LessonUp?

Creating a Drag & Drop in LessonUp is easy. Click here to learn more about creating a drag & drop question in LessonUp, or follow these four simple steps:

1. In your lesson, click the + sign and select the Drag & Drop option. You’ll then see two parts: Drag Targets and Drag Components.
2. First, add your Drag Targets. These are the boxes, images, or spots where students can drag items.
3. Next, add your Drag Components — the words, sentences, images, or statements students need to drag to the correct place.
4. You can decide whether multiple answers per box are allowed and if the components should stay in place after being dragged incorrectly.

How to use it?

The Drag & Drop question is surprisingly flexible and works in every phase of your lesson. Use it to practise terms, activate prior knowledge, or finish with a digital quiz. It’s also a handy online activity to quickly review content.

Examples:

• English: Drag these idioms to the correct meaning.
• Religious Studies/Citizenship: True or false — drag the statements about Eid al-Adha to the correct box.
• History/Politics: Drag the politician’s head to the correct shirt.
• Art Education: Drag the images to the right place in the painting or overview.
• Diamond 9 ranking: Order nine components from most to least important.
• Interactive hotspot question: Link an image to a question and display it while dragging.
• Traffic lesson: Drag parts of a traffic sign together to create one complete sign.

Want to try this activity right away?

In this lesson, you’ll find various examples of Drag & Drop questions, ranging from simple to creatively challenging. Use them directly, save your favourite slides using the Save button, and adjust them for your own lesson.

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Drag & Drop Questions

Learning Technique

Uhm... What are you saying?!

Drag these English Idioms to their correct meanings.

To quit something

Get everything organized

Nice, but unlikely to happen

To upset or anger someone

Shenanigans

To fail; to go bankrupt

Pie in the sky

Monkey business

Cold turkey

Have your ducks in a row

Get someone’s goat

Go belly up

Drag the words to the right sentence.

His ______________ of that fairy tale story is unusual. He sees it as science fiction.

His music was an ___________________ of his feelings.

People say you need a strong____________________ to write books

She _______________ the book beautifully . Everything looks super neat.

Most dilemmas have no _________________ solution.

shaped

interpretation

imagination

unambiguous

expression

True or false?

Drag the statements about Eid al-Adha to the appropriate box.

true

false

Eid Al-Adha also means

the Feast of Sacrifice.

Memory of the sacrifice of Prophet Ibrahim's daughter

Eid Al-Adha is not celebrated the same in all countries.

It's also known as the Breaking the Fast.

A time to express gratitude for what we have.

Heads Up! Where Does It Belong?

Drag the head to the right shirt.

Laura Trott

Boris Johnson

David Blunkett

David Frost

Nigel Farage

Bumblebee or wasp?

Drag the images to the right place.

Bumblebee

Wasp

Who should stop racism?

TV and film makers

Young people

Schools

Human rights activists

Employers

Governments

Police

Religious leaders

Social media

INSTRUCTIONS

Match the character to their reputation. 

Consider how each characters' fate is linked to their reputation.

A drag and drop exercise focusing on the default reputations of each character.

Eric gets Eva pregnant and steals money from the factory

Gerald meets Daisy (Eva) at the Palace Bar

Mr. Birling unfairly dismisses Eva from the factory.

Mrs. Birling intervenes to stop the charity aiding Eva

Sheila jealously ensures Eva is sacked from her job at the shop.

This is intended as a starter. 

As a slight twist (and as a way of organising the images and information more easily) you can click on a hotspot to reveal the image. The hotspots are also draggable and hold more information.

The aim here is to create a broad timeline of events relating to the death of Eva Smith.

Don't be scared - this looks more complicated than it is! 

If you are concerned about accessibility there's no need! You can click on each image to enlarge the text.

This creates a timeline as Eva experiences events. You could either make this clear at the start or let your learners work it out!

Make the right road sign

Click on a hotspot (1 - 4). Create the described road sign 

with the shapes on the left. Drag one or more images 

onto the empty square.

Children playing

Warning sign for presence of playing children in the area

1

Prohibited for pedestrians

This road sign indicates that no pedestrians are allowed to walk here.

2

Give priority to drivers on the intersecting road.

You must give way here to drivers driving on the road crossing in front of you. If there is no traffic on the intersecting road, you do not have to stop.

3

Maximum speed

It is not allowed to drive faster than the specified speed.

4

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