Classroom Community Building Activities and Tools - Back to School Icebreakers

Develop a strong classroom culture with these community-building activities and tools! This bundle includes icebreakers, brain breaks, get-to-know-you forms, mindfulness activities, growth mindset calendars, and classroom agenda slides.  Suitable for middle school and high school students.

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Included with these Classroom Community Building Activities and Tools:

✏️ 30 unique, engaging, and age-appropriate Icebreaker Questions for Teens  - Color & Grayscale

✏️ Blank Templates to create your own Icebreaker Questions - Color & Grayscale

✏️ 5 Brain Break activities for Older Students - color & grayscale

✏️ Editable Student Information Sheet - Microsoft PowerPoint® and Google Forms®

✏️ Student Information Sheet with 25+ Student Survey Questions - Digital & Print

✏️ 2022-2023 Digital Student Planner for Google Slides®

✏️ Growth Mindset Monthly Markers Graphic Organizer 

✏️  Editable Agenda Slide Template with Customizable Backgrounds and Stickers - Google Slides®

✏️  Pre-made Agenda Templates for 3 Different Lesson Frameworks - Google Slides®

✏️ 5 Guided Meditation Scripts - PDF & MP3

✏️ Teacher instructions for using these resources

Resources included with this Classroom Community Building Bundle:

1. Icebreaker Questions for High School Students - Icebreaker Activity for Teens

Looking for an icebreaker activity for teens? Your classes will love these icebreaker questions for high school students! These 30 get-to-know-you questions are perfect for a “speed-meeting” icebreaker game, for group discussions, or as daily attendance prompts.  Includes editable templates to make your own prompts!

2. BRAIN BREAKS for Middle School and High School ENERGIZERS for Any Subject Area

Brain Primers are kinetic activities that activate areas of the brain associated with cognitive ability and emotion regulation. Put simply, they "prime" the brain for learning, much like you'd prime a surface before painting.

Each brain primer in this resource includes a snippet of research that explains the benefits of the activity in the context of learning. You can share this research with your students at the beginning of each new brain primer activity.

3. Editable STUDENT INFORMATION SHEET Digital Student Survey Get To Know You

Promote equity, growth mindset, and class community while you get to know your students!  This editable student information sheet includes student survey questions to obtain important student information.  Suitable for distance learning with digital forms for Google Classroom®.

These get to know your student questions are broken up into four sections: an introduction to the student, their family, their interests, and other important information:

• The first section will prompt the student to provide information about their identity. 
• The second section will prompt the student to share about their family and cultural community. 
• The third section will inquire about interests and responsibilities. 
• The final section will address health-related concerns and offer the student the opportunity to share any additional information.

4. Digital Student Planner - Weekly Templates and Monthly Calendars - Google Slides

Instill a growth mindset through monthly goal-setting and reflection!  This digital student planner is formatted for Google Slides®  and provides weekly templates and monthly calendars to promote student accountability and organization.

The Growth Mindset Student Planner is a great way to keep students accountable for deadlines and coursework while inspiring them to consistently reflect on their habits and goals.  Simply distribute this digital student planner through your online learning platform.  You can prompt students to take out their planners whenever an important date is outlined.  

This digital student planner is formatted for the 2022-2023 school year and includes free annual updates to ensure that dates align with each new school calendar.  

5. Guided Meditation Scripts - Mindfulness Meditations Stress Management for Teens

Includes audio recordings! Encourage emotional regulation, self-awareness, and empathy with these five mindfulness meditations. These guided meditation scripts help teach stress management for teens. They range in length from 5-9 minutes to help students build their focus and attention.

Your students may wish to understand the benefits of these mindful meditation practices. For this reason, a research-based article snippet has been included with each script.

6. Google Slides Agenda Templates - Editable Daily Agenda Slides with Timers

These Google Slides Agenda Templates make it easy to outline your lesson framework each day! Use these daily agenda slides with timers as a communication tool for distance learning or in-person. Interactive lessons can be built directly into these pre-made templates.

These Google Slides Agenda Templates offer the option to customize your own daily agenda slides or use one of the pre-made lesson frameworks provided. 

⭒ For classrooms utilizing Google Classroom® ⭒

To access the digital versions of these resources, simply follow the instructions within the resource to copy the files directly to your Google Drive®.

✨ Kindly note that due to copyright restrictions, these resources are not editable unless otherwise indicated.  This is a common practice within the TPT marketplace in order to protect the clip artists and software providers that have authorized their intellectual property for the development of this resource.

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