Unique School Activities for Collaboration and Engagement

Valley Ridge Middle School Shared Fun Ideas Preparation and other directions in the slide NOTES at the bottom. Choose a slide and copy it into your presentation for faculty, team, department, or other meetings. Share this set with teachers and encourage them to choose slides to copy into their lessons. Continue adding new slides throughout the year. Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School Dad Joke Tournament Dad Joke Tournament 2 minutes to choose your favorite dad joke (clean, silly, and funny). You may use your device to search or choose one from the envelope on the table. Round 1: Stand up and find a partner. Take turns telling your jokes. Come to a consensus on your favorite of the two. Round 2: Partners move together! Join with another partnership. Each partnership tells the favorite joke they selected in Round 1. Come to a consensus on your favorite of the two. Round 3: Foursomes move together. Join with another foursome. Each foursome tells the favorite joke they selected in Round 2. Come to a consensus on your favorite of the two. Rounds 4-?: Repeat combining groups and selecting the favorite joke until only TWO or THREE teams are left for the FINAL ROUND. FINAL ROUND: Each team selects a JOKETELLER to tell the joke selected in the previous round by the team. The JOKETELLERS tell the joke to the entire audience. After all 2-3 jokes are told, the crowd votes on the winner by applause. Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School The Laughing Game The Laughing Game Form groups of 3-10 and stand in a circle. As a group, repeat HA HO HEE while making eye contact with others in the circle Try NOT to laugh! Last person with a straightface in the circle is the winner! Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School Don t say YES or NO! Don t say YES or NO! 2 minutes: Write down all the yes or no questions that you can think of: Did you eat breakfast today? Do you like dogs? Are you a teacher? Find a partner 5 minutes: Take turns asking each other questions. See who can go the longest WITHOUT saying YES or NO! Be prepared to share your best (funniest, cleverest, strangest) with the group if chosen YES YES NO NO Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School Flamingo Talk Flamingo Talk 30 seconds: Think about your answer: What is your perfect weekend? What would you do? Who would be there with you? Find a partner 1-2 minutes: Take turns sharing your answer while you both stand like a rightside-up or upside-down flamingo Rightside-up: standing on one leg with the other leg bent Upside-down: holding one arm straight up and one arm bent Be prepared to share out if chosen Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School Connection Questions Connection Questions 30 seconds: What do you love about your hometown? What do you love about your hometown? Find a partner 3 minutes: Take turns sharing your answer with each other. If you are the listening partner, ask at least one question after the speaking partner has shared. Who? What? Why? How? When? Where? Be prepared to share out if chosen Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School Connection Questions Connection Questions 30 seconds: Where would you most like to travel? Where would you most like to travel? Find a partner 3 minutes: Take turns sharing your answer with each other. If you are the listening partner, ask at least one question after the speaking partner has shared. Who? What? Why? How? When? Where? Be prepared to share out if chosen Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School Connection Questions Connection Questions 30 seconds: If you could be any athlete for a single game/event, If you could be any athlete for a single game/event, who would you choose? who would you choose? Find a partner 3 minutes: Take turns sharing your answer with each other. If you are the listening partner, ask at least one question after the speaking partner has shared. Who? What? Why? How? When? Where? Be prepared to share out if chosen Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School Connection Questions Connection Questions 30 seconds: What pets have you had in your life? What pets have you had in your life? Find a partner 3 minutes: Take turns sharing your answer with each other. If you are the listening partner, ask at least one question after the speaking partner has shared. Who? What? Why? How? When? Where? Be prepared to share out if chosen Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School Connection Questions Connection Questions 30 seconds: What are your simple pleasures? What are your simple pleasures? Find a partner 3 minutes: Take turns sharing your answer with each other. If you are the listening partner, ask at least one question after the speaking partner has shared. Who? What? Why? How? When? Where? Be prepared to share out if chosen Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency

Valley Ridge Middle School Connection Questions Connection Questions 30 seconds: What historical period would you most like to visit? What historical period would you most like to visit? Find a partner 3 minutes: Take turns sharing your answer with each other. If you are the listening partner, ask at least one question after the speaking partner has shared. Who? What? Why? How? When? Where? Be prepared to share out if chosen Collaboration Relationships Accountability Student-Centered Urgency