Question-Based Icebreaker Game that Encourages Deeper Sharing and Understanding Among Students:

 Here’s a great question-based icebreaker game that encourages deeper sharing and understanding among students:

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🎲 "The Question Web"

Objective:
To create connections and build trust through personal and meaningful questions.

Materials Needed:

• A ball of yarn or string

• A list of thought-provoking, age-appropriate questions (you can use or modify the examples below)

How to Play:

1. Form a Circle: Students sit or stand in a circle.

2. Start the Web: The teacher or a chosen student starts with the ball of yarn. They answer a question from the list (or pull from a jar of questions), then hold onto the end of the yarn and toss the ball to another person across the circle.

3. The next person catches the yarn, answers a new question, holds onto a section of the yarn, and tosses the rest to someone else.

4. Continue until everyone has spoken at least once. A web will begin to form visually, representing their connections.

5. After the game, reflect on the web: “What did you learn about someone you didn’t know before?”, “How are we more connected than we thought?”

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Question Ideas:

• What’s a memory that always makes you smile?

• What’s something you’re proud of that most people don’t know?

• If you could spend a day doing anything you wanted, what would it be?

• What’s one thing you’re really curious about?

• Who has influenced your life in a positive way?

• What’s a challenge you’ve overcome?

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This game works beautifully at the start of a term or after a break, and you can adapt it for smaller groups or digital classrooms too.

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