Famous Educators
Known for his calm voice and cardigan sweaters, this preschool TV host helped children learn about feelings, kindness, and community.
Who is Mister Rogers?
Kids chase each other across the blacktop in this classic game, often shouting “You’re it!”
What is tag?
This item is often missing just one of its pair—students usually realize it's gone right before PE or a sport.
What is a sock?
This animated teacher takes her class on magical field trips in a bus that can shrink, fly, and go to space.
Who is Ms. Frizzle?
This Hogwarts professor with half-moon glasses and a stern look ran a tight classroom—especially for first-year witches and wizards.
Who is Professor McGonagall?
This playground chant is often followed by synchronized jumping and tangled ropes.
What is “Double Dutch”? or Jump Rope.
It's always too warm for this item until the one day it's needed—then it’s mysteriously vanished. Students need this when the weather is below 65 degrees.
What is a coat/hoodie/jacket?
This ‘90s sitcom featured a teacher named Mr. Feeny guiding Cory and Topanga through life.
What is Boy Meets World?
This beloved TV teacher from Reading Rainbow encouraged generations of kids to take a look—it’s in a book.
Who is LeVar Burton?
Once the ball bounces into a square, the player who occupies that square must hit the ball into another square with their hands, and so on, until someone gets out.
What is four square?
Found at the bottom of backpacks, under desks, and frequently in the cafeteria—often missing a cap.
What is a water bottle?
In School of Rock, this actor pretends to be a substitute teacher and turns his class into a rock band.
Who is Jack Black?
This Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great and laid the foundation for Western education.
Who is Aristotle?
If you’re “it” in this game, you’re trying to avoid being the last person with the object when the music stops.
What is musical chairs?
This buzzing piece of tech causes a stir when it’s found in the hallway—and always asked to be put away.
What is a cellphone?
This movie involves a dedicated high-school music teacher who attempts to compose his own music while struggling to balance his job and life with his wife and profoundly deaf son.
What is Mr. Hollands Opus?
This educator founded the Tuskegee Institute and was a key voice for African American advancement through education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This playground classic involves tossing a small object and hopping through numbered boxes.
What is hopscotch?
This school-issued item is often left behind in classrooms, uncharged, and logged in as “Student123.”
What is a Chromebook? (or) What is a laptop?
This American sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as a high-school teacher in charge of a racially and ethnically diverse remedial education class nicknamed the Sweathogs
What is Welcome Back, Kotter?