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Ice Breaker 2

This document provides the directions for a modified charades icebreaker game called for 9th through 12th grade students. The game involves dividing students into groups of 5, with each group picking a topic and lining up facing the same direction with the first player facing the opposite way. The teacher will show the first player an item from the topic to silently gesture to the next player, who will continue passing it down the line until the last player guesses aloud. The fastest group to correctly guess each item wins a candy prize. The game aims to break the ice through creative gesturing, attentiveness, patience, and effective non-verbal communication skills.

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Ice Breaker 2

This document provides the directions for a modified charades icebreaker game called for 9th through 12th grade students. The game involves dividing students into groups of 5, with each group picking a topic and lining up facing the same direction with the first player facing the opposite way. The teacher will show the first player an item from the topic to silently gesture to the next player, who will continue passing it down the line until the last player guesses aloud. The fastest group to correctly guess each item wins a candy prize. The game aims to break the ice through creative gesturing, attentiveness, patience, and effective non-verbal communication skills.

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Title of the Icebreaker: Modified Charade

Grade Level: 9 12th Grade


Duration: 45 minutes
Co-Leader: 9 12th Grade Teacher
Materials:
6 8 x 11 in sheets of paper with statement or words written per topic (topic
can
include: movies, celebrities, title of the book, famous quotes, idioms,
etc.)
Stopwatch
Candy for prize
Directions:
The students are to divide into groups of five and will pick a topic of their interest.
Each group will designate one person to start and explain, last person to guess the
answer and rest will stay in between to pass on the gestures from the previous
person to next. As the group is lined as one, all the participants will face towards the
right except the first player who will face the left towards the teacher. The teacher
will show the first item on the topic and the first player will tap the second player to
describe the item only by gestures and sound is not permitted. Then the second will
pass on to the following and on and on until the last player and last player is to call
out the answer. The total given time per topic is 5 minutes and whoever completes
the fastest will win the prize.
Modified Charade is engaging and full-on-motion type of a game that will break the
ice in no time. The students are to use their creativity in describing and expressing
given items to the following group member and clearly communicating in between.
The game not only requires creativity but attentiveness, patience and effective
communication through gestures. As a group, they will learn various ways to
pantomime and deliver unambiguous communication and to work collaboratively.

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