Get your students excited about using a calendar with our interactive Wizard’s Quest Game: Using a Calendar POWERPOINT! This magical, wizard-themed resource transforms calendar skills into a high-stakes adventure. Students will help a group of courageous wizards banish beasts from the enchanted forest - using their knowledge of dates, weeks, months and calendar clues to cast spells and win back each realm.

To preview this interactive PowerPoint game, click on the video below.

Wizard’s Quest Game: Using a Calendar POWERPOINT is structured across three interactive realms. In each realm, students explore a themed calendar containing magical events and important dates. They must analyse calendar clues, count days and weeks, and make predictions about when events will occur. Each correct answer charges a magic orb, five in total, needed to defeat the beasts. Once all orbs are activated, the beasts vanish and the forest is saved!

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Interpret information on a monthly calendar
• ✅ Identify dates and days of the week
• ✅ Calculate the number of days or weeks between events
• ✅ Apply time concepts to solve real-world problems
• ✅ Engage with interactive digital learning in a meaningful way

What’s Included:

• Interactive PowerPoint game featuring three calendar-based realms
• Built-in navigation and feedback system with clickable answers
• Full-colour calendars themed around magical quests
• 5 questions per realm to reinforce calendar skills

Materials Needed:

• Device with PowerPoint installed
• Interactive whiteboard, screen or laptop for whole-class display
• Optional: personal whiteboards for student working out

How to Use:

1. Open the PowerPoint file in presentation mode on your classroom device or whiteboard.
2. Begin by reviewing the calendar for the current realm with your students.
3. Read each multiple-choice question aloud or have students read it independently.
4. Allow time for discussion, working out and reasoning before selecting an answer.
5. Click to select the answer - correct answers activate a magic orb, while incorrect answers allow a retry.
6. Repeat until all five questions are answered and the beasts are defeated.
7. Move on to the next realm and repeat the process with a new calendar and storyline.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use as a warm-up or review during your calendar or time unit
• 💡 Play as a whole class by voting on answers before clicking
• 💡 Set up in small groups at a digital station to encourage collaborative problem solving
• 💡 Assign as a maths rotation for targeted reinforcement
• 💡 Track which realms are completed as part of a classroom display

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Discuss the calendar as a group before beginning each realm
• 💛 Encourage students to explain how they worked out their answers
• 💛 Pause after each question to review reasoning and misconceptions
• 💛 Replay as a challenge to see how many orbs can be collected without error

Wizard’s Quest Game: Using a Calendar POWERPOINT is the perfect mix of curriculum-aligned learning and magical storytelling - bringing engagement, challenge and calendar skills together in a fun, unforgettable format.