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Fostering a positive environment at the start of the year is so important in helping you establish a strong classroom community. The following 7 resources include activities that aim to be fun and engaging while helping you and your students get to know each other better and create a sense of belonging in your classroom.
The activity themes are a mix of general high school icebreakers as well as some specifically CS/tech themed. They can therefore be used with all high school subject classes (as tech is now so relevant for everyone) and especially if you are teaching a Computer Science related subject.
The 36 questions to connect- general includes 36 questions, across 3 pages that can printed and cut out prior to the lesson. The resource includes tips for and two activity suggestions to engage your students.
The 36 questions to connect- dice mat is a variation on the 36 questions to connect. Your students can play this in pairs or small teams using two dice. Alternatively you can use online dice if you don't have these or if learning in an online/hybrid format.
Instructions for play: Have students role two dice- the corresponding square on the mat determines which question your students ask of each other. To make this more competitive you could use this like a bingo sheet and have students win when they have asked and answered 5 in a row/column/diagonal line.
The Find-someone-who...? Printable includes a printable sheet of 20 questions that can printed out for each student prior to the lesson. This document also includes teacher's tips for follow up activities that will help you to keep building connections and good relations with your students throughout the year.
The Find-someone-who-CS themed is a variation on the Find-someone-who...? Printable in that the prompts are CS themed. The resource includes tips for how to use this and two activity suggestions for ways that this can be used.
The Would you rather...? game are animated slides, designed to have your students out of their seats and sharing their opinions with each other. You can choose to have students play this in class as individuals or as teams. Instructions are included on the black colored slides and the purple colored slides are the activity questions.
The Higher or Lower - CS Facts game is an introductory game to start your year that aims to pique students interest in computer science. This game, has students guessing the numbers behind the facts related to CS careers, AI use, internet and cyber security. For example, Is the energy for training a single large AI model higher or lower than the energy used by an average household in a year? The slides are hyperlinked to make this game easy to use- click on either the higher or lower button to reveal the answer and use the next buttons to proceed to the next question. Share the slides with students to have them play this in pairs/small teams independent of the teacher or as a whole class.
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Fostering a positive environment at the start of the year is so important in helping you establish a strong classroom community. The following 7 resources include activities that aim to be fun and engaging while helping you and your students get to know each other better and create a sense of belonging in your classroom.
The activity themes are a mix of general high school icebreakers as well as some specifically CS/tech themed. They can therefore be used with all high school subject classes (as tech is now so relevant for everyone) and especially if you are teaching a Computer Science related subject.
The 36 questions to connect- general includes 36 questions, across 3 pages that can printed and cut out prior to the lesson. The resource includes tips for and two activity suggestions to engage your students.
The 36 questions to connect- dice mat is a variation on the 36 questions to connect. Your students can play this in pairs or small teams using two dice. Alternatively you can use online dice if you don't have these or if learning in an online/hybrid format.
Instructions for play: Have students role two dice- the corresponding square on the mat determines which question your students ask of each other. To make this more competitive you could use this like a bingo sheet and have students win when they have asked and answered 5 in a row/column/diagonal line.
The Find-someone-who...? Printable includes a printable sheet of 20 questions that can printed out for each student prior to the lesson. This document also includes teacher's tips for follow up activities that will help you to keep building connections and good relations with your students throughout the year.
The Find-someone-who-CS themed is a variation on the Find-someone-who...? Printable in that the prompts are CS themed. The resource includes tips for how to use this and two activity suggestions for ways that this can be used.
The Would you rather...? game are animated slides, designed to have your students out of their seats and sharing their opinions with each other. You can choose to have students play this in class as individuals or as teams. Instructions are included on the black colored slides and the purple colored slides are the activity questions.
The Higher or Lower - CS Facts game is an introductory game to start your year that aims to pique students interest in computer science. This game, has students guessing the numbers behind the facts related to CS careers, AI use, internet and cyber security. For example, Is the energy for training a single large AI model higher or lower than the energy used by an average household in a year? The slides are hyperlinked to make this game easy to use- click on either the higher or lower button to reveal the answer and use the next buttons to proceed to the next question. Share the slides with students to have them play this in pairs/small teams independent of the teacher or as a whole class.
