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Fall Icebreaker Activity - Would You Rather Questions

By KJ Inspired Resources

Use this fall no-prep icebreaker would you rather game as a brain break, morning meeting activity, community building game, or for discussion starters. You can also use this digital autumn-themed resource for questions as writing prompts or even debate prompts. Your students will love having the opportunity to share and discuss some fun and silly fall traditions!

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What's Included:

  • 25 would you rather slides
  • 1 directions slide
  • 1 directions slide template for you to add your own directions
  • 1 editable template for you to add your own would you rather prompts

Directions:

  • Display the slides for students.
  • Read the two options and students must choose which one they would rather do.
  • Students can respond in many different ways: sharing with the whole class, small groups, partners, debating, writing, etc.

Would You Rather Example Slides:

Have a corn cob nose OR have sunflower ears

Hoot like an owl every time you talked OR growl like a bear every time you stand up

Sleep on a bed full of pumpkin guts OR have to eat an entire large pumpkin

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AVID Team Building Story Starters for Public Speaking and Writing Skills

By Teach Savvy Store

Enhance collaboration, writing and public speaking skills with Story Starters! This AVID resource provides engaging story starters that encourage students to finish a story and present it to their peers. This activity fosters collaboration and communication within small groups or whole class settings, while also providing a fun way to improve public speaking skills. Download the Google Slides digital resource today and see the positive impact it can have on your students' teamwork and confidence!

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Directions:

  • Display the Google Slide Story Starter OR print them out so students have different stories to choose from.
  • Students will complete the engaging story starter by writing for 3 minutes.
  • Students can use the picture provided to help guide them in their stories, or choose to take a different route and be creative on their own.
  • Students will be split into groups of 4-6.
  • Each student will present their story to their small group while practicing public speaking skills.

What's Included:

  • 3 Story Starter Prompts with Images
  • 1 Directions Page

*This resources is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Back to School Activity | Find Someone Who Bingo Game | Editable

By KJ Inspired Resources

This find someone who back to school activity makes a great icebreaker the first day of school or first week of school, get to know you activity or brain break. Find someone who will help build classroom community while students practice speaking and listening skills. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various after summer break and back to school themed categories, such as "find someone who played video games over summer."

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What's included?

  • 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in
  • Editable version with clipart included
  • Editable version without clipart

How to use:

  • Students will walk around the room and find different classmates who fits the description in each box.
  • Once they find a classmate who fits the description they will have them write their name in the box.
  • Students will keep finding classmates until all 16 boxes are full.

Some examples included:

  • Find someone who had a summer birthday.
  • Find someone who has an older sibling.
  • Find someone who is wearing your favorite color.

Click HERE to see our other find someone who resources!

Click HERE to see our other back to school resources!

Click HERE to see our other team building activities!

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After Fall Break Partner Game: Bottle Flip Icebreaker & Classroom Activity

By Teach Savvy Store

Kick off the return from Fall Break with this engaging Bottle Flip Partner Game! This printable activity is perfect for icebreakers, team-building, or quick classroom fun. Keep students active and excited with a hands-on game designed for easy use in any classroom setting.

This activity allows students to talk and share their experiences in a fun and interactive way. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

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Check out the After Fall Break Bundle HERE!

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How to Play Bottle Flip

  • Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
  • Print discussion cards for each group
  • Have students get out paper for scoring
  • The oldest student flips first
  • If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
  • If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
  • If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
  • play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 50 "after fall break" question cards
  • blank cards to write your own words
  • editable cards template in Google Slides

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

More fall resources...

I'm Thankful For Cell Phone

Turkey Career Research Project

The Landlady Activites

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After Fall Break Activity | Find Someone Who Bingo Game | Editable

By KJ Inspired Resources

Get students talking and connecting with this Find Someone Who After Thanksgiving Break activity! Perfect for icebreakers, brain breaks, or team building in your middle school and high school classes. This activity will build classroom community while reinforcing speaking and listening skills.

Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various fall break themed categories, such as "find someone who stayed up past midnight."

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What's included:

  • 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in
  • Editable Google Slides version with and without clipart

How to use:

  • Students will walk around the room and find different classmates who fits the description in each box.
  • Once they find a classmate who fits the description they will have them write their name in the box.
  • Students will keep finding classmates until all 16 boxes are full.

Some examples included:

Find someone who did not eat turkey.

Find someone who stayed up past midnight.

Find someone who ate leftovers.

More After Fall Break Resources:

Stand Up Sit Down

More Fall Resources:

Would You Rather

Stand Up Sit Down

Finish the Story

Thanksgiving Would You Rather

More Find Someone Who Resources:

Year Long Bundle

After Winter Break

After Spring Break

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AVID Halloween Team Building Card Game Activity for Public Speaking

By Teach Savvy Store

Halloween Team Building and Public Speaking Card Game Activity- Connect the Dots: This Halloween AVID inspired Card Game is the ultimate public speaking and team-building resource for AVID students (or any content area) - This engaging and educational card game is designed to help students develop their public speaking skills and build teamwork in a fun and interactive way. It is perfect for AVID classrooms and beyond! It's suitable for use in AVID classrooms, as well as any classroom that values public speaking and teamwork. Students will draw 2 Halloween-themed cards and try to connect the 2 words by telling a story with them.

Connect the dots boosts confidence, enhances communication, and fosters collaboration. Through playing this card game, students will gain the confidence and skills necessary to succeed in public speaking and work effectively in teams, setting them up for success both in and out of the classroom.

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How to Play Connect the Dots

  • Print, cut, and laminate the 200 cards provided.

  • Put the word cards into box or non-see through bag.

  • A player picks two cards and then must immediately begin telling a story connecting both words together convincingly. The story should only be 1-2 minutes, complicated, or true!

  • Once your class is comfortable with connecting two words, add to your word collection and increase the number of cards selected to three or even four.

Skills

  • Moving from one idea to another smoothly, in a way that can be readily understood and followed by your audience, is a must-have public speaking skill.

  • Connect the Dots gives people the opportunity to practice. Finding a way to conenct the words and practicing the ability to make those connections will become stronger and stronger.

  • An added benefit of the game is listening and learning from each other.

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • Skills page
  • Example story
  • 200 word cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

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AVID Public Speaking Activity - Debate Topics and Sentence Starters

By KJ Inspired Resources

Giving students plenty of public speaking practice is important, but thinking of fun topics takes time! This is an activity with this sample 5 fun and engaging speech topics for your students to practice those very important college and career readiness skills! Get the full version HERE. :)

Directions

  • Share expectations of respectful debating
  • Organize students into small groups or create one large circle
  • Read the debate prompt out loud
  • Students choose a side and think of at least one reason why they chose that side
  • When students have at least one reason they hold up a thumb
  • Choose a student to begin the debate

What's Included

  • 1 directions slide
  • 1 expectations slide for students
  • 1 optional points slide
  • 5 debate topis with agreeing/disagreeing chart and sentence starters

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After Spring Break Printable Partner Activity - Bottle Flip

By Teach Savvy Store

Bottle Flip is a partner team-building card game and it's the perfect icebreaker for your AVID students (or for students in any content area) who are returning to school after spring break! This activity allows students to talk and share their experiences in a fun and interactive way. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

✨AVID Spring Bundle✨

✨ELA Spring Bundle✨

Bundle and save over 30%:

✨AVID Mega Bundle✨

Team Building Bundle

Partner Games Bundle

Bottle Flip Bundle

How to Play Bottle Flip

  • Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
  • Print discussion cards for each group
  • Have students get out paper for scoring
  • The oldest student flips first
  • If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
  • If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
  • If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
  • play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 50 "after spring break" question cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

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AVID Back to School Public Speaking Digital Activity - 30 Second Speeches

By KJ Inspired Resources

This exciting back to school-themed 30-second speech activity is great for AVID, counseling, college and career, speech, or can be used as a fun brain break in any class! Use it during the first week of school to gauge your student's public speaking, dialogue, eye contact, planning, and teamwork skills!

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Public Speaking Bundle

AVID Bundle

AVID Team Building Bundle

What's Included:

  • 1 directions pages
  • 1 optional points slide
  • 15 back to school topics with silent 30 second prep timers
  • 15 thirty-second speech timer slides
  • 1 editable template to make your own OR let students make their own!

Directions:

  • Put students into groups or breakout rooms of 4-6 students
  • Go over the directions with students:
  • Wait for the impromptu topic to show up on the screen (ex: why schools should have a designated nap time)
  • Decide who in the group will start and that student will have 30 seconds to prepare for their speech after the topic is revealed
  • After 30 seconds the student will present their topic for 30 seconds

Optional Points:

  • Secretly give points/take away points from group members on a small whiteboard or notebook paper
  • Groups can earn by: Focusing on good voice, being creative with their responses, eye contact, posture, using an opening/closing statement, and making good points for your topic
  • Groups can lose points by: being a poor audience member, having poor posture, not using good voice, not using eye contact, using filler words: like, um, so, okay, yeah, kinda…

Click HERE to see our other public speaking resources!

Click HERE to see our other AVID resources!

More AVID back to school resources...

Drawing Challenge

More 30-Second Speeches...

General Version with 25 Topics

Summer 30 Second Speeches

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Back to School Partner Icebreaker | Team Building Activity - Bottle Flip

By Teach Savvy Store

Partner Icebreaker | Team Building Activity - Bottle Flip: Bottle Flip is a partner team-building card game and it's the perfect icebreaker for your AVID students (or for students in any content area). This activity allows students to talk and share their personal beliefs, ideas, and experiences. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

Bundle and save over 30%:

✨AVID Mega Bundle✨

Team Building Bundle

Partner Games Bundle

Bottle Flip Bundle

How to Play Bottle Flip

  • Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
  • Print discussion cards for each group
  • Have students get out paper for scoring
  • The oldest student flips first
  • If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
  • If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
  • If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
  • play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 60 question cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

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After Spring Break Activity - Find Someone Who Bingo Game | Editable

By KJ Inspired Resources

Use this printable activity to help welcome students back to school by allowing them to share experiences! This activity makes a great icebreaker, community building activity, brain break activity or Fun Friday activity.

Find someone who will help build classroom community while practicing speaking and listening skills. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various Spring Break-themed categories, such as "someone who slept in past noon" This is the perfect activity to allow students to socialize and catch up with their classmates after spring break.

✨After Spring Break Bundle✨

✨Spring Bundle✨

✨AVID Bundle✨

What's included:

  • 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in
  • Editable Google Slides file (option with and without clipart)

How to use:

  • Students will walk around the room and find different classmates who fits the description in each box.
  • Once they find a classmate who fits the description they will have them write their name in the box.
  • Students will keep finding classmates until all 16 boxes are full.

Some examples included:

  • Find someone who got sick.
  • Find someone who went on a vacation.
  • Find someone who rode on a boat.

More After Spring Break Resources

Activity Packet

Stand Up Sit Down

Click HERE to see our other find someone who resources!

Click HERE to see our other spring resources!

Click HERE to see more team building resources!

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool

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AVID Team Building Public Speaking Card Game Activity- Connect the Dots

By Teach Savvy Store

Team Building Public Speaking and Listening Card Game Activity- Connect the DotsThis: This Card Game is the ultimate public speaking team-building resource for your AVID students (or any content area) - This engaging and educational card game is designed to help students develop their public speaking skills and build teamwork in a fun and interactive way. It is perfect for AVID classrooms and beyond! It's suitable for use in AVID classrooms, as well as any classroom that values public speaking and teamwork.

Connect the dots boosts confidence, enhances communication, and fosters collaboration. Through playing this card game, students will gain the confidence and skills necessary to succeed in public speaking and work effectively in teams, setting them up for success both in and out of the classroom.

*Save 30% with this Public Speaking Bundle!

*Save 30% with this Public Speaking Card Game Bundle!

*Save 30% with the AVID bundle!

*Save 30% with the Connect the Dots Bundle!

How to Play Connect the Dots

  • Print, cut, and laminate the 200 cards provided.

  • Put the word cards into box or non-see through bag.

  • A player picks two cards and then must immediately begin telling a story connecting both words together convincingly. The story should only be 1-2 minutes, complicated, or true!

  • Once your class is comfortable with connecting two words, add to your word collection and increase the number of cards selected to three or even four.

Skills

  • Moving from one idea to another smoothly, in a way that can be readily understood and followed by your audience, is a must-have public speaking skill.

  • Connect the Dots gives people the opportunity to practice. Finding a way to conenct the words and practicing the ability to make those connections will become stronger and stronger.

  • An added benefit of the game is listening and learning from each other.

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • Skills page
  • Example story
  • 200 word cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

*This resources is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

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Spanish Find Someone Who | End of the Year Summer Speaking Activity | Editable

By KJ Inspired Resources

This no-prep End of the Year Find Someone Who Spanish Worksheet Activity is the perfect activity for the last day of school! Your students can practice their speaking and listening skills in Spanish while talking about things they did over the school year and future summer plans. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various themed categories, such as "find someone who was never absent this year."

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⭐Save 25% with the Find Someone Who Growing Bundle!

What's included:

  • 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in (one with the title in Spanish and one with the title in English)
  • Editable text boxes in Google Slides so you can change the phrases/directions to fit the needs of your own class

Directions:

  • Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various after spring break themed categories, such as "find someone who is going to a theme park this summer."
  • The first person who fills in all 16 boxes first wins!

Some examples included:

  • Find someone who has a sibling in this school.
  • Find someone who has inspired you this year.
  • Find someone who likes the same subject as you.

More End of the Year Resources:

Stand Up Sit Down

More Spanish Resources:

Stand Up Game Growing Bundle

Back to School Bundle

After Winter Break Bundle

After Spring Break Bundle

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After Winter Break Printable Partner Activity - Bottle Flip

By Teach Savvy Store

Bottle Flip is a partner team-building card game and it's the perfect icebreaker for your AVID students (or for students in any content area) who are returning to school after winter break! This activity allows students to talk and share their experiences in a fun and interactive way. Students will take turns trying to gain points by flipping a bottle upright! When they miss, they have to answer a question and lose a chance at points.

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

Bundle and save over 30%:

✨AVID Mega Bundle✨

Team Building Bundle

Partner Games Bundle

Bottle Flip Bundle

How to Play Bottle Flip

  • Place students into random partners and give each set of partners a water bottle to flip
  • Print discussion cards for each group
  • Have students get out paper for scoring
  • The oldest student flips first
  • If they flip the bottle and it lands upright, the flipper gets 2 points, and then its their partners turn to flip
  • If they flip the bottle and it does not land upright, they have to draw and answer a random question
  • If the flipper answers the question, they get one point. If the student does not answer or says “I don’t know,” the OTHER student gets the point and they get to take their turn
  • play for 10 minutes and switch partners!

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 50 "after winter break" question cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

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AVID Back to School Team Building Drawing Activity | Communication Skills

By KJ Inspired Resources

Use this back-to-school, first-week activity as an icebreaker with your AVID students or for any class or content! This team-building game promotes good communication skills which allows for AVID families to build trust and relational capacity. It also helps students prepare to be successful in their future college and career endeavors. This engaging game will allow AVID students to continue to develop those peer relationships as well as develop necessary skills!

⭐AVID Back to School Bundle!⭐

Get the Drawing Challenge Bundle HERE!

Drawing Challenge Bundle

AVID Team Building Bundle

AVID Growing Bundle

What's Included:

  • cover page
  • directions page
  • 48 drawing cards

Directions:

  • Print and laminate multiple sets of the image cards.
  • Divide the class into multiple groups.
  • Group members take turns drawing a card from a pile.
  • The person who drew a card must not show their team the image or use words to describe it. Ie if it is a rainbow you can only use shapes, lines, and location to describe the drawing and cannot say things like, "it forms after the rain."
  • The group member describes and gives directions on how to draw the image.
  • The team then tries to use listening skills to copy the drawing based on the directions given.
  • Repeat until all cards have been used.

Uses:

  • teambuilding
  • communication practice
  • listening practice
  • framework Friday

More Back to School AVID Resources...

WICOR Board

30 Second Speeches

More Drawing Challenges...

Year Round General Version

Halloween

End of Year

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AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

AVID Writing Bundle

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AVID Public Speaking Card Game Activity - Commercial Cards

By Teach Savvy Store

Looking for an engaging and fun way to help your AVID (or any content area) students build team building and public speaking skills? Look no further than our AVID team building and public speaking card game! Whether you're looking to encourage creativity, boost confidence, or foster teamwork, this AVID team-building and public speaking card game is the perfect choice for your classroom.

With this innovative card game, students will draw a card featuring a unique image and then have the opportunity to present a 1-2 minute commercial for their group, with the freedom to be as silly or serious as they want.

*Save 30% with this Public Speaking Bundle!

*Save 30% with this Public Speaking Card Game Bundle!

*Save over 30% with the AVID bundle!

What's Included:

  • Directions page
  • 90 commercial image cards
  • blank cards to write your own words or images

Directions:

  • Print, cut, and laminate the 90 image cards provided.
  • Put the picture cards into a box or non-see through bag.
  • Put students in groups of 4-6.
  • Player draws a card and has 30 seconds to prepare a commercial for the item drawn.
  • The commercial should only be 1-2 minutes, silly or serious!

*This resources is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

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Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

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Public Speaking Communication Freebie Activity - 30 Second Speech

By KJ Inspired Resources

Communication is the key to developing strong leaders of society! It allows us to form connections, influence decisions, and motivate change! This public speaking game will allow students to practice important skills needed to be successful in their futures. Great for AVID, counseling, college and career, speech, or just used as a fun brain break in any class!

Get the 30-Second Speech Bundle HERE!

Get 25 more speech topics HERE!

Public Speaking Bundle

AVID Bundle

AVID Team Building Bundle

What's Included:

  • 1 directions pages
  • 1 optional points slide
  • 5 topics with silent 30 second prep timers
  • 5 thirty second speech timer slides

Directions:

  • Put students into groups or breakout rooms of 4-6 students
  • Go over the directions with students:
  • Wait for the impromptu topic to show up on the screen (ex: tell your group 3 different ways to eat an oreo)
  • Decide who in the group will start and that student will have 30 seconds to prepare for their speech after the topic is revealed
  • After 30 seconds the student will present their topic for 30 seconds

Optional Points:

  • Secretly give points/take away points from group members on a small whiteboard or notebook paper
  • Groups can earn by: Focusing on good voice, being creative with their responses, eye contact, posture, using an opening/closing statement, and making good points for your topic
  • Groups can lose points by: being a poor audience member, having poor posture, not using good voice, not using eye contact, using filler words: like, um, so, okay, yeah, kinda…

More 30-second speeches...

Summer-Themed

Click HERE for 25 more 30 second speech topics!

Click HERE to see our other public speaking resources!

Click HERE to see our other AVID resources!

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool

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AVID Public Speaking Activity - Fishbowl Speeches

By Teach Savvy Store

This AVID team-building card game is the perfect icebreaker for students who want to practice their public speaking skills in a fun and interactive way. Designed for use in a classroom or group setting, this card game challenges players to give a 1-minute speech about a topic using the card they draw. This engaging activity not only helps students build their public speaking confidence but also teaches them valuable skills in communication and creative thinking!

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, Fishbowl Speeches is the perfect choice!

Find this in:

Public Speaking Bundle

Public Speaking Card Game Bundle

AVID bundle

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History Snippets

Connect the Dots

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How to Play Fishbowl Speeches

  • Place the 25 different topics into a container and mix them up to ensure random selection.
  • Ask a student to select a topic from the container and read it out loud.
  • Allow 30 seconds for the student to brainstorm the content and delivery of their speech. Provide one minute for the student to present their answer to the question or topic.

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 25 Topics
  • blank cards to write your own words

Example topics

Persuade everyone in the class to give you a dollar

Should colleges use only SAT®/ACT® scores for admissions?

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Spanish Find Someone Who - After Spring Break Speaking Activity - Editable

By KJ Inspired Resources

This no-prep After Spring Break Find Someone Who Spanish Worksheet Activity is the perfect icebreaker game to welcome your students after spring break or Easter break! Your students can practice their speaking and listening skills in Spanish while talking about things they did over break with their classmates. Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various themed categories, such as "find someone who spent time with their friends."

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What's included:

  • 1 Find Someone Who worksheet with 16 boxes for students to fill in (one with the title in Spanish and one with the title in English)
  • Editable text boxes in Google Slides so you can change the phrases/directions to fit the needs of your own class

How to use:

  • Students will walk around the room and try to find classmates that fit into various after spring break themed categories, such as "find someone who went on a vacation."
  • The first person who fills in all 16 boxes first wins!

Some examples included:

  • Find someone who finished reading a book.
  • Find Someone who spent time with their friends.
  • Find someone who slept in past noon.

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Spanish After Spring Break Stand Up Sit Down Game

*Note this product may be used in brick and mortar classes as well as virtual systems like Outschool

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Team Building Public Speaking Card Game Activity - History Snippets

By Teach Savvy Store

Team Building Public Speaking / Listening Card Game Activity - History Snippets: This team-building card game is the perfect icebreaker for AVID students (or students in any content) who want to practice their public speaking skills in a fun and interactive way. Designed for use in a classroom or group setting, this card game challenges players to give a 1-2 minute speech about an invention or event in history using the card they draw. This engaging activity not only helps students build their public speaking confidence but also teaches them valuable skills in communication and creative thinking!

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

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How to Play History Snippets

  • Put the 100 topic cards/papers into a non-see-through bag.

  • Put players into teams of 4-6 players.

  • When it's their turn a player pulls a topic from the bag. They then must give an account of the history (story) behind the thing or event they've drawn. It can be factual or false! Encourage imagination, outrageous lies, flights of fantasy...

  • The goal of this public speaking game is to sustain credible fluency. Aim for 1 - 2 minutes per story.

What's Included

  • Directions page
  • 100 history/invention cards
  • blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

Check out other AVID resources HERE!

Check out more Collaboration resources HERE!

Check out more Public Speaking resources HERE!

Career and Technical Education
Classroom Community
Oral Communication
$2.00