APES

The APES review game where the obvious answer is the wrong one

900 terms · all nine units · free, no student accounts

One round from AP Environmental Science — Unit 9: Global Change

Four students see

Thermal Expansion of Oceans

Increase in ocean volume occurring purely because warm water expands.

The fifth sees

Warm-water-volume-increase

That is all they get — a hint, not the term the other four are holding — and they have to describe it first.

The Mole knows warm water takes up more room. They can talk about a heating planet and rising seas and be right about every word of it — and still be describing melting ice, which is the answer everybody reaches for first and not the one on the card.

Recognizing a word is not knowing it

This course is full of processes that share a headline and not a mechanism. Describing one out loud is the quickest way to find out which of the two a student actually has.

Twenty-five minutes, start to finish

1Pick the unitChoose one of all nine units, or the whole course.

2They join with a codeA room code and a nickname. Nothing to install, no accounts to make.

3The class splitsUp to 45 students, split into small rooms so everyone actually speaks.

4You watch one boardEvery room on one screen — who is playing, who is stuck, who is winning.

Run it with one class

900 terms are already written and ready. Open the course, pick a unit, and put the code on the board.

Free. No paid tier, no trial, and students never make an account. What your IT department will ask