#Significant72 Activities for the Classroom

Getting To Know Your Students At Any Age

Ideas, Strategies and Tools  to Know Each Child Better

• Important Questions to Ask Your Students via Edutopia
• 23 Ways to Build and Sustain Classroom Relationships
• 12  Questions to Ask Your Students on the First Day by Terry Heick
• Six Questions to Ask Your Students via ASCD
• Student Learning-Strengths Inventory 
• The 2-Minute Relationship Builder Courtesy  of ASCD
• Strategies to Get to Know Your Students- TeachThought
• Facing History: Back to School Toolkit- AWESOME!
• First Day of High School Activities
• Getting to Know You Ideas at the High School​
• NEW:   20 Ways to Build Classroom Community and Relationships
• NEW:   Cultivating Caring Relationships at School: 15 Activities That Promote Staff and Student Connection
• NEW:   Building Relationships: Activities for the First Week of Middle School
• NEW:   11 Tried and True Strategies for Getting to Know Your Students​​​

• NEW:   Using Free EdTech Tools to Get to Know Your New Middle and High School Students
• NEW:   7 Ways to Build a Positive Student-Teacher Relationship
• NEW:   Reconnecting Student & Teacher Relationships Through Tech Education
• NEW:   How Tech Tools Can Reduce Anxiety and Strengthen Relationships with Students
• NEW:   Emerging tools can help make students-teacher relationships  stronger than ever
• NEW:   Relationships Before Rigor: 15 Ways to Build Classroom Community and Celebrate Our Students in Person or Online
• NEW:   Using Tech to Build Quality Student-Teacher Relationships​​
• NEW:   8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students
• NEW:   10 Strategies for Building Relationships with ELLs
• NEW:   Video Playlist: 6 Ways to Build Relationships with Students​​

• Conversation Starters
• ​Best Icebreaker Questions
• ​Incredible Ice breaker *
• 100 Funny Icebreaker Questions​​
• ​​101  Conversation Starters​
• Three Question Ideas to Connect Students via Edutopia 
• NEW:   Kahoot Back to School: Would You Rather
• NEW:   Kahoot  Icebreakers
• NEW:   100 Funny Kahoot Questions
• NEW:   Jamboard Icebreaker Questions
• NEW:   101 Would You Rather Questions
• NEW:   GiveThx.org Partner Activities
• NEW:   Free Google Slides Would You Rather Questions
• 30 Days of Icebreakers (PDF)​
• 100 plus "Would You Rather" Questions (PDF)
• Tell Me Something Good- Video Tool
• Minute to Win It Games (Video)​
• High Energy: Elephant (video)

• NEW:   15 Fun Icebreakers for Small Groups
• NEW:   33 Meaningful Icebreakers for Middle and High School Students That Really Work
• 7 Easy Icebreakers You Can Do with Post-It Notes
• ​​40 Icebreakers for Small Groups
• Small Group Icebreakers and Games
•  Small Groups Icebreakers and Games
• Fun Icebreakers for Small Groups
• Icebreaker Activities for High School
• Connection and Icebreakers -Elementary (PDF)
• Tools     for Teaching Improvisation  (PDF)
• 40 Icebreakers for Small Groups (PDF)
• Team Builders & Icebreakers : Techniques for Success (PDF)
• Improv Games (Video- some may not be appropriate for your grade level/situation)
• Elephant (video)​
• Stack Em Up - Solo Cup Activities (PDF)

• NEW:   10 Team-Building Activities for the First Week of School
• NEW:    43 Awesome Team-Building Activities for Kids
• NEW:   Team Building Activities for Teachers and Students
• NEW:   15 Fun team team-building activities and trust games for the classroom
• NEW:   21 Team-Building Activities for Students
• NEW:   17 Team Building Activities for Elementary Students
• NEW:   16 Team Building Activities for Middle School (with video examples)
• NEW:   Team-building activities for Middle School
• NEW:   Team Building Activities and Games for Teens
• NEW:   5 Team-Building Activities for High School Students​
• NEW:   30 Icebreaker Activities for High School and Middle School Students
• 50 Digital Team-Building Games for Students​
• 5 Ideas for Middle School & High School that Work
• Ten  Team-Building Activities to Develop Critical Thinking​
• Quiz, Quiz Trade​

GRATITUDE GIFS

It takes vulnerability for students to open up and take risks in front of their peers. To reinforce this courage, #Significant72 teachers encourage students to express appreciation after each share. Using “Gratitude GIFs” adds an element of fun while fostering a sense of belonging. The teacher projects a Gratitude GIF on the board, and partners show appreciation by mirroring the action on screen, creating an engaging and supportive classroom environment.