Icebreaker Activities

A great way to start the day and get the students talking is to do an icebreaker activity. These are especially useful on the first few days as students are getting to know each other and the leaders. Aside from discussing activities, content, or how the students feel about the camp so far, these activities can be done during lunch to add some more light fun into the day.

Here are some links to icebreakers that we referenced:

• 30 Icebreaker Activities for High School and Middle School Students
• What Time is it, Mr. Fox?
• Heads Up, 7-Up
• 20 Great Icebreakers for the Classroom
• Red Light, Green Light
• Human Knot Icebreaker (A great introduction to protein untangling!)
• Spider Web Activity (A great introduction to membrane filtration!)

When you’re ready, move on to the engineering activities!