What We Don’t Know About Each Other

Activity

Community building activities, Ongoing engagement

What We Don’t Know About Each Other

Noha El-Rawy

This activity can be used for ongoing engagement mid-semester helping students to get to know each other better.

Tech needed: Video conferencing, Shared online space

Synchronous

Accessibility: Text-based

Duration: Variable

Student preparation: None

Educator preparation: None

ACTIVITY PURPOSE

This activity is great for helping students to get to know each other and keeping the class atmosphere fun and engaging.

USEFUL FOR

It can be used as a warm-up before class, it helps to bring students closer to each other and to their teacher.

PREPARATION

Creating a space for the participants to take notes such as Padlet.

INSTRUCTIONS

Invite each participant to write at least one fact or statement about her/himself that their fellow students don’t know.
Ask the group to figure out who that statement belongs to.
Ask the student who wrote this fact to declare themselves and explain it.
Other participants can ask questions.
For a longer activity, you can ask the participants to add more facts and discuss them.

DURATION

20-25 minutes depending on the number of students in the group.

ADAPTATIONS AND EXAMPLES

The participants can share simpler facts if it’s a bigger class and there’s no time such as their favorite food, animal, or plant
It can be done online, or offline.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Access to Zoom in done online.
Shared Google slide or Padlet.

USEFUL RESOURCES

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