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As students begin to increase their relational capacity, they start to feel comfortable sharing increasingly personal and vulnerable information. Question Beach Ball is an exciting activity that encourages students to go beyond sharing generic information and take risks in a fun, friendly, and positive environment.
SET UP:
Beach ball questions(see below)
One beach ball with numbers 1-40 written on it to correspond to the questions. Or number the beach ball according to the number of total questions students choose from.
STEPS:
As students begin to increase their relational capacity, they start to feel comfortable sharing increasingly personal and vulnerable information. Question Beach Ball is an exciting activity that encourages students to go beyond sharing generic information and take risks in a fun, friendly, and positive environment.
Have a student volunteer to hold the ball and knock it into the air.
Have the next three students knock it back into the air. It is helpful to have the class chant, "One" (when the first student hits), "Two" (when the second person hits it), and "Three" (when the third person hits it).
As students begin to increase their relational capacity, they start to feel comfortable sharing increasingly personal and vulnerable information. Question Beach Ball is an exciting activity that encourages students to go beyond sharing generic information and take risks in a fun, friendly, and positive environment.
Read the corresponding question from Beach Ball Questions.
Have students use the wording of the question to formulate the answer. For example, “The first thing that I do when I get out of bed is....."
When the student has answered the questions, repeat the previous steps, allowing a new student to respond to a question each time.
Close the activity with a debrief, either verbal or written, using a few of the questions from the Stage 2 Debrief Prompts.
EXTENSION:
To increase scaffolding:
• To increase scaffolding, allow students to request to answer a different question.
EXTENSION:
To integrate technology:
•To integrate technology, use a beach ball without numbers on it. Once the fourth person catches the ball, use a random number generator to assign their question.
Questions Bank:
What is the first thing that you do when you get out of bed?
2. What is your favorite line from a movie?
3. What is your favorite joke?
4. What do Martians do for fun on Mars?
5. If your life was being turned into a feature-length movie, who would play
you? Why?
6. Up to this point, what would you describe as your “15 minutes of fame?”
7. What is your favorite jelly bean flavor? Why?
8. What one object in your home are you most embarrassed about owning? Why?
9. When you dance, what do you look like?
10. If you could be a famous actor, writer, athlete, artist, or musician, what would you choose? Why?
11. What is the worst occupation in the world? Why?
12. What is your greatest fear? Why?
13. If you were given a canvas and water colors, what would you paint? Why?
14. Which celebrity irritates you the most? Why?
15. What is your lifelong dream? Why?
16. If you could ask the president of the United States one question, what would it be?
17. What was a moment in your life where you tried something and simply were not good at it?
18. What is the biggest advantage of being really tall?
19. How many minutes does it take you to get ready in the morning?
20. What hobby have you always wanted to pick up? Why?
21. What is it about you that people find irresistible? Why?
22. If you were any animal, what would you be? Why?
23. What event or technological breakthrough do you think will revolutionize the future?
24. What is the most beautiful word that you can think of? Why?
25. What beverage do you find nauseating? Why?
26. What three adjectives best describe you?
27. What was your favorite book growing up? Why?
28. What is the most common compliment that people give you?
29. What is the best purchase that you have ever made?
30. If you could add any word to the dictionary, what would it be?
31. What commercial product would you refuse to endorse? Why?
32. What word best describes your Internet knowledge?
33. What occurred during the longest period of time that you have spent in a car?
34. What was your best Halloween costume?
35. If you were a teacher, what subject would you teach? Why?
36. What is the worst grade that you ever received, and in which class did you receive it?
37. What would you like your nickname to be?
38. What are you most proud of?
39. What age were you when you had your most embarrassing hairstyle and what was it?
40. What is the best advice that you have ever received?
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