Using Choices with Educational Apps 5 min. Join Our Facebook Group! Check back soon for more announcements and tutorials. Subscriber Only Resources. Access this article and hundreds more like it with a subscription to Choices magazine. How I Use Choices. By The Choices Editors. How Can This Help? Some questions and activities that can guide their reflections: Make a chart of the healthy and unhealthy actions of Bip and Bop Were there actions that help strengthen the relationship or make it less in danger?
What were the actions that would have a positive impact on the relationship? What actions caused damage to the relationship? Did the relationship actually break down from the action? Do you think this is a good relationship for these adolescents?
Are there skills that could be used to lessen the negative effects? Teaching Tips: The size of the rocks will greatly determine how volatile the relationship is. Using less expensive paper towel or thin paper will as well. Students can place the paper on the container and attach with the rubber band to save pre-set up time It is not important to distinguish between the characteristics that Bip demonstrated, or those of Bop.
About the Ideabook. Stay in the Loop. People start to mingle to ask and answer questions in pairs. After asking a question and listening to the answer, they hand over that question.
Thus, in each one-on-one meeting, participants will swap one question each. This allows people to learn interesting facts about each other and works with a group size of up to people. An activity to support a group to get to know each other through a set of questions that they create themselves. The activity gets participants moving around and meeting each other one-on-one. Facilitation techniques and activities to build effective teams and support teamwork. These large group games put an emphasis on fostering trust and openness for better collaboration and manage team dynamics effectively.
Getting your large group team building activities right can be the difference between helping your team bond or leaving them frustrated. These group activities will help you to initiate meaningful conversation in the group, provide a starting a point for focusing on teamwork and collaboration, and importantly give engaging tasks to participants in which they work together.
This is essential to increase cohesion within teams. The key for successfully achieving these goals in large groups is to have big group games that can be easily run in smaller groups in parallel. This group activity helps group members to get to know each other better through a creative drawing exercise: Each participant draws their own coat of arms — a design that is unique to themselves, representing important characteristics, achievements and values of its owner.
If you want to direct the focus of this group activity to certain areas, then you can instruct people to which question to answer in each segment of the Coat of Arms. What is something you are very good at? When people are finished drawing, they present their work to in their group. The presentation part is practical to do in smaller groups. And whether you have a small or large group, you can arrange a neat Coat of Arms gallery by sticking all the drawings on the wall of the workshop room.
Large group games where participants have something to show at the end can be especially effective and can really set the stage for a productive, interactive workshop. Coat of Arms teambuilding opening ice breaker team get-to-know thiagi.
In eighteen minutes, teams of people must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top. Since the instructions are fairly simple, it is easy to scale this activity up to groups playing in parallel and competing who builds the highest structure. It emphasizes collaboration, group communication, leadership dynamics and problem-solving strategy — everything you want in your large group games.
Also, there are marshmallows. All group activities are better with marshmallows! Marshmallow challenge with debriefing teamwork team leadership collaboration. In eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The Marshmallow Challenge was developed by Tom Wujec, who has done the activity with hundreds of groups around the world.
Visit the Marshmallow Challenge website for more information. This version has an extra debriefing question added with sample questions focusing on roles within the team.
The Helium stick group activity gives a simple challenge to teams that require teamwork and coordination to manage. People are lined up in two rows facing each other, 5 to 10 people per row, depending on the length of the sticks you have for the game. Participants point with their index finger and hold their arms out in a way that a stick can be horizontally laid on their index fingers. Why Helium Stick? You can easily scale this activity for larger groups, just have as many sticks as the number of lines you will create, and the sub-groups will compete against each other who manages to lower their stick first.
Helium Stick teampedia team teamwork ice breaker energiser. A great and simple activity for fostering teamwork and problem solving with no setup beforehand. Large group games are undeniably effective at getting things rolling, and fun group activities are essential for getting a team engaged, but what if you need to go deeper?
There are dedicated facilitation methods that work really effectively if you need certain conversations to happen in large groups.
The techniques below can be used as core group activities for planning and facilitating large group workshops. They tend to have only a few guiding principles and rules, which allows smaller groups to organize and manage themselves during a workshop. Open Space Technology — developed by Harrison Owen — is a method perfectly suited for organizing and running large scale meetings, often multi-day events, where participants self-organize themselves to find solutions for a complex issue.
There are only a few rules guiding the structure of the event, and the agenda is created by the people attending. It is a great method for tacking important and complex problems where the solutions are not obvious. The technology can accommodate hundreds of people. Open space group activities can be incredibly productive, though remember that there is a degree of self-determination here, and the individual groups in the open space are only as good as their members and the set-up of the open space.
Open Space Technology idea generation liberating structures problem solving. When people must tackle a common complex challenge, you can release their inherent creativity and leadership as well as their capacity to self-organize. Open Space makes it possible to include everybody in constructing agendas and addressing issues that are important to them.
Having co-created the agenda and free to follow their passion, people will take responsibility very quickly for solving problems and moving into action. Letting go of central control i. You can use Open Space with groups as large as a couple of thousand people! Facilitators create a cafe-style space and provide simple guidelines for the groups of people to discuss different topics at different tables. The structure of this method enables meaningful conversations driven completely by participants and the topics that they find relevant and important.
World Cafe works great when slightly informal, with a relaxed cafe-style atmosphere. Group activities like this benefit from the setting of the right tone — make sure to get this right before you begin! World Cafe hyperisland innovation issue analysis.
Facilitators create a cafe-style space and provide simple guidelines. Participants then self-organize and explore a set of relevant topics or questions for conversation.
So, here the group members do not switch tables, but participate in four rounds of conversation with taking different approaches to exchange opinions and discuss the same topic in depth. This more focused group activity format helps to build trust and connection between group members and therefore well-suited to handle controversial or difficult topics among diverse participants. Again this method is very practical when dealing with large groups by setting up parallel discussion groups.
The classic — and often ineffective — shout-out type of brainstorming session has a natural limitation when it comes to large groups. However, there are other methods that provide a structured way to get people into creative thinking and elicit innovative ideas from everyone in the room even if you have dozens of participants.
Remember that workshop activities should not be limited to large group games. Tailor your agenda to your group and the purpose of the workshop or training session so that you have the right mix of group activities and group games.
This is an idea generation method that is really easy to scale into large groups, yet still allows every participant to actively take part in the process. You split the audience into groups of four, share the challenge or question that people should focus on, then kick off the following sequence of activities in the parallel groups: at first, silent self-reflection by individuals, then generate ideas in pairs, and then share and develop further the ideas in the circle of four people. All of these relationship building activities will help you build a positive classroom community.
You can use them from the very first week of school until the very last day of the year. I hope you found something useful for you and your students to use! If you need some reminders, get this cheat sheet to help you out. Do you have any other great ways to build relationships in the classroom? If so, send me an email or leave a comment below! Great ideas! Love how it can be 5, 10 ,or 15 minutes. Thank you! I agree that building relationships is great for kids. Want to get updates about new posts and freebies from The Inspired Educator?
Fill out this form to subscribe! You will also receive a FREE language standards review pack one each for grades as a thank you for subscribing! The Inspired Educator participates in affiliate advertising, which means we may get a small bonus at no cost to you. To see our full policy, click here. Relationship Building Activities: 5 Minutes or Less These relationship building activities are super quick, so they can fit into any short gaps you have during the day.
Hug, High Five, or Handshake For this activity, each student can choose to give you a hug, a high five, or a handshake. End-of-the-Day Exit Slip We all know that exit slips are given at the end of lessons to check for student understanding.
Some questions you could ask are: What was your favorite part of the day? What was the best thing you learned today? What is one kind thing you did for someone today? What do you hope to learn about tomorrow? What was the best thing you did during specials today?
Relationship Building Activities: 15 Minutes These relationship building activities take slightly more time, but are still relatively quick. Just Like Me Game If you want to spend some time helping your students learn about one another while having some fun, the Just Like Me game is perfect.
One at a time, students step forward and say a fact about themselves e. I have one sister.
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