Icebreakers and Exit Tickets – 30 Questions
This post is a combination of my most recent Practical Ed Tech Newsletter and one that I published last fall. Whether you’re using an online platform to conduct icebreakers and exit ticket activities or you’re just reading the questions aloud to your class (AKA the Old Fashioned Way), I hope these help. Icebreaker Questions 1. […]
A Few Good Places to Find Ideas for Icebreakers
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about using Google Drawings as part of an icebreaker activity. But if you’re looking for something a little quicker and easier to do to get your new students talking, take a look a the following resources. If you’ve run through all of your common icebreaker questions and want […]
How to Create a Random Question Generator
Earlier this week I shared directions for an icebreaker activity in which students complete the sentence, “where I’d like to go…” with a picture of themselves in front of a place they’d like to visit. That’s a great activity, but it’s not necessarily a quick activity. If you’re looking for a quick icebreaker activity, having […]
Where I’d Like to Go – An Icebreaker With Google Drawings
As the new school year starts many you may find yourself looking for some new ideas to break the ice and get to know your new students while they also get to know each other. One thing that I’ve always asked my students is “where in the world would you go if you could go […]
A Comics Activity as an Icebreaker
Disclosure: Pixton EDU is currently an advertiser on this blog. As the new school year begins you may find yourself looking for some new ways to conduct icebreaker activities. One thing you can try is having students create avatars for themselves then talk about their designs. Then after making those avatars you might have them […]
500+ Icebreaker Questions
Believe it or not we’re closer to the start of the new school year than we are to the end of the last one. Whether we’re going back into our physical classrooms or staying in an online environment, we’re going to need to get to know our new students and they need to get to […]
A Couple of Good Places to Find Icebreaker Activities
Every year at about this time I get a handful of requests for ideas for icebreaker activities. In fact, I found of one of those requests this morning in my inbox. Here are the two sites that come to the top of my mind when I’m asked for places to find icebreaker activities for classrooms. […]
Try Using Icebreaker Tags at New Staff Orientation
The new school year is almost here and that means there will be new staff orientation meetings are happening everywhere. Rather than using generic name tags or ID badges for that first meeting, try using Icebreaker Tags. IceBreaker Tags is a free tool for making your name tags that can help people break out of […]