Last Updated on September 13, Here are 21 free to use icebreakers for online teaching that you can use. Icebreakers are an important part of any training program, as they encourage people to participate from the start of a session, to get to know each other and to feel comfortable working with others. How do you run icebreakers for online sessions though? There are many icebreakers you can do in face-to-face training sessions and some of them are classics that corporate trainers all over the world have been using for quite a while.
In this guide, we have put together some icebreakers specifically designed to be done online and others that are normally done in traditional classrooms and we explain how to adapt them for the online environment. Table topics are a set of cards, which you can find for sale online, on sites such as Amazon.
Each card has a question on it to start a conversation and every pack of cards contains just over one hundred questions. They are a great way to start a conversation for participants to get to know each other or to start a discussion on a specific topic. You can choose questions pertinent to the topic of your workshop. You can type some of the questions from the card on a chat board and ask participants to write down their thoughts.
Alternatively, you could separate the participants into breakout rooms and assign each group one or two questions so that each person in the group can answer. The aim is to learn information about other people. Hence, this activity can be either a great icebreaker or a way for people within an established team to know each other better and communicate.
This game is good as a warm-up, for participants to familiarize with each other and also to think creatively. Participants can discuss together or be separated into breakout rooms, depending on the number of participants. Because of the creative and cooperative nature of this game, it is a good activity to use either as an icebreaker or as a team-building activity.
It can also be useful for a training session on creativity. This is a good activity to get participants to get to know each other, so that they find themselves in a familiar environment. Participants can do this activity either before the session, in their own time, or during the session. This is a fun activity, which is good to get people to know each other using visuals and creativity. Remember to ask questions that are light-hearted though, as you want to start on a positive note.
This is a good activity if your participants are located in many different geographical locations. This is a good activity to get to know participants in a way other than just asking the usual questions. This is another activity suitable for participants to share information about themselves creatively.
This icebreaker is a fun game, aimed at making participants feel relaxed and creating a sense of community. You could also use it as an energizer, if needed, when you sense that your participants are losing focus. This is a good activity to focus on positive things i. It is also a networking tool, as participants could be interested in achieving the same goal that another person in the group has achieved and whom they might ask for advice from.
This activity is different from the traditional introduce yourself type activities, in that it has an additional challenge. That is, participants have to manage to communicate as effectively as they can, using a very limited number of characters. There is a limitation to this activity though, as participants will need to have a Twitter account and not worry about their tweet being seen by everyone as tweets are public direct messages used to be limited to characters but, in , the limit was extended to 10, characters.
In a traditional face-to-face session, you would prepare a table with a series of interesting facts and then give each participant a copy of the sheet so they can move around the room trying to find somebody to whom that fact applies. This activity is suitable for those who like history and as a trainer, it can help you to introduce a bit of imagination to your icebreaker.
There are some great ideas here that I will definitely be incorporating this into my classroom this August! Hi Jess. Great to hear that you will use the classroom training activities. All the best :. Let us know how it goes. Very interesting activities. They are innovative too. I expect that many activities will be in demand repeatedly.
Thanks a lot for sharing these wonderful ideas. Participants know each other already. What would be another activity that can be done to get them tuned to the session. If the participants already know each other then there are several options for ice breakers. I have got lots more on the ice breakers main page.
Wonderful ideas. Keep it up. Looking forward for more online teaching ideas. I would love to know, for example, how to keep students engaged throughout the minute session and they remain active throughout and not disappear halfway through the session. Hi Shalini, I am glad to know that you find these ideas useful. I know, it is harder to keep students engaged online! A way to keep their attention is to keep asking them questions and to engage them throughout the training session with activities and discussions, even more so than you would do for a face-to-face training session.
Thank you so much! Wonderful ideas and I will surely incorporate these in my virtual new session. If you have a very large group, you might want to use four different colored papers. The puzzles are then mixed up and when participants arrive each person receives one half of one of the puzzle pieces.
The only tricky thing about this ice breaker is to make sure that all halves are not over or under distributed. One of the leaders may opt to participate, or not, in order to make sure that the other participants will be evenly matched. After the initial welcomes, the participants are told to find their puzzle partner match.
Once found, they must find out three things about him or her and write it down on their puzzle piece. When everyone has found their partner, they introduce him or her and tell the rest of the group what they discovered. This could also be used to match prayer partners during your event. Successfully used with ages 10 to adult. Copyright Sarah Keith Sarah sundayschoolnetwork. After every person has taken whatever amount of toilet paper they think they might need, the game goes on I have a sister named Sue.
It is really funny when someone takes a lot of toilet paper. Shape-Up This ice-breaker game reminds us that when we're God's children, we are part of the family of God. And as his children, we have the most important relationship in common with one another--Jesus! Spin the Bottle, Br eak the Ice. Draw a circle on the floor and divide in quarters, or use four large sheets of paper to make four sections. On the each section write a topic such as, "Food, School, Activity, or Family.
Place a bottle in the center of the four sections. Teacher begins by saying his or her name and then spins the bottle. Teacher must then tell one fact about his or her life regarding the topic to which the bottle cap points. Next person takes his or her turn, proceeding clockwise. If you have time, go around the circle several times. For more fun games, check out Bible Games Explosion. Sweet Talk.
What you need: You will need a bowl full of different colored candies, such as Skittles , a plastic spoon and a small cup for each child. Alternatively, pre-fill small cups with three different colored candies in each one.
Make a list of discussion starter questions to match the candy colors. If you want to play more than one round: Where were you born? How many siblings do you have? How long have you lived in your home? What do you want to be or do when you grow up? If you could have a super power, what would it be?
See questions in "Balloon Banter" too, above. How to play: Distribute the pre-filled cups of candy to children sitting in a circle or pass a bowl of candies to children and have them scoop out three pieces of candy and place in their cups. Display the discussion starter questions. Children take turns by first saying their name, and then answering the questions that match the colors they chose.
Once everyone has had a chance to "sweet talk," they may eat their candy! For more fun games, get Bible Games Explosion. With Over 52 Bible Games for Kids!
Ten Commandments Intro Ice Breaker Introduce children to a semester of teaching the Ten Commandments by first playing the active Balloon Banter game and then the calmer Sweet Talk game both listed above. With children sitting in a circle, say, "These games were fun. The one thing they have in common, other than answering the color-coded questions, is that they had rules to follow. Ask, 'Why are rules important?
This semester we will be learning about God's rules. They're called the Ten Commandments. They teach us right from wrong and help us understand what God expects from his children, and how he cares for us. Jesus told us that the Ten Commandments teach us how to love God and how to love others. Trying to Get Home Participants stand behind their chair.
Every time players can answer "yes" to a statement they may move to the chair on their left. If they answer "no," they stay where they are. This is fun because people sometimes must stand 3 or 4 in a line before some can move on. You have tomatoes in your garden. You are retired. You have a blue vehicle. What do you think makes a good friend? If you were a famous person, what would you be famous for? Would you rather questions. Would you rather play sports or watch them?
Would you rather be part of the Incredibles family or the Weasley family? Would you rather live in a world of legos or a world of cartoons? Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon?
Would you rather live in a house made of cheese or a house made of cookie dough? Would you rather be a mouse or an elephant? Would you rather be invisible or be able to fly? Would you rather live at Disney World or Sea World? Questions to spark the imagination. If it was raining meatballs, would you eat them? If you could be any emoji, which one would you be? If you were a superhero, what would be your superpower?
If you were running for president, what would your campaign slogan be? If you had a TV show about your life, what would it be called and who would play you?
If you had to create a nickname for yourself, what would it be? If you had a robot to help you with school, but it could only do one task, what would it do? Here are ideas for games that make asking icebreaker questions a fun activity for everyone, as well as some specific icebreaker questions for your elementary students: Marco Polo with icebreaker questions. When a student is tagged, they take a turn closing their eyes and asking an icebreaker question.
Getting-to-know-you chain. This game helps students see how much they have in common with their classmates. For example: Who has an older brother like me?
Who likes baseball like me? Who is an only child like me? Who likes chocolate ice cream like me? Whose favorite superhero is Spiderman like me? This continues until the whole classroom is linked together in the chain. For more online getting-to-know-you icebreaker activities, check out the video below:. Favorite animal sounds Every little kid has their favorite animal.
Icebreaker questions for elementary students. If you could get rid of one food forever, what would it be? If you could keep any animal as a pet, what would it be? Here are some fun icebreaker games you can play with middle schoolers, as well as a few questions that are specific to this age group: Chip in. The goal: Get rid of all your chips as soon as you can. Fidget spinner icebreaker game. Check out this video for even more virtual icebreakers for your middle school students:.
Ice breaker questions for middle school students If you started your own YouTube channel, what would it be called and what would your videos be about? Here are some ideas, and some questions adapted to high schoolers: Jenga questions. The group must then find another similarly sized group and continue until only two groups are left.
The groups face off in a best two out of three match with all of the non-playing members cheering on their leader! For this one, the game organizer must create a custom list of things for the teams to scavenge for. This should be tailor made for the specific setting. A scavenger hunt sheet is given to each group, split up so there is at least four to five groups , and each group heads out with a leader and searches for the things on the list.
Once found, the group takes the photo with the object or place. Once all teams have completed their list, the photos can be shared, providing a good way for the players to get to know each other and work towards a common goal. The players must line up in order of birthday without making a sound or writing anything down. Depending on the size of the group, give the players just enough time to finish with nearly perfect accuracy!
For this game, create a Tic-Tac-Toe board. You can use a pad of paper, hula hoops, or draw one with chalk outside. Put the board at one end of the playing field, and have the two teams stand on the other end. One team is X's and the other is O's. You can use colored items as well such as blue and yellow rags or a white board marker. Each team only gets three of their item to make it extra challenging!
Team members have to run to the board and place their item in a spot before running back to tag their next teammate in line. After all three of a team's items have been placed, the next team member has to move one item to an open spot to try and get three in a row.
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