Snowball Fight
Snowball Fight is a structured group exercise for divergent ideation: it helps participants open up more possible ideas before choosing a direction.
How to run it
- 6+5-15 mins None ← Back to all Activities Setup Each student will need two or three small pieces of paper.
- Students could take them out of their notebooks or you could give out recycled paper.
- Activity In secret, the students write a sentence on each of their papers, according to the target language.
- This is often something about themselves, but some activities use other types of sentence.
- paper (recycled or scrap paper works well)
- At the end you can have each person introduce the person they found to the rest of the group, sharing the three facts.
- You can have people link arms as they find their mate
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Students could take them out of their notebooks or you could give out recycled paper.
Activity In secret, the students write a sentence on each of their papers, according to the target language.
This is often something about themselves, but some activities use other types of sentence.
At the end you can have each person introduce the person they found to the rest of the group, sharing the three facts.
You can have people link arms as they find their mate
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Snowball Fight. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Students could take them out of their notebooks or you could give out recycled paper.; Activity In secret, the students write a sentence on each of their papers, according to the target language.; This is often something about themselves, but some activities use other types of sentence.; At the end you can have each person introduce the person they found to the rest of the group, sharing the three facts.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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