Other
Virginia Career View: A Book About Me 2
Use a virtual pencil to write or draw likes, talents, and skills. Then print the activity when finished.
Other
Virginia Career View: A Book About Me 1
Use a virtual pencil to write or draw likes, talents, and skills. Then print the activity when finished.
Scholastic
Scholastic: All About Me & the School Experience Unit
Great idea for the beginning of the year. Uses the book Clifford's First School Day by Norman Bridwell as the starting place for students to make their own book about going to school.
University of Arizona
Center for Insect Science Education Outreach: Getting to Know You: Meal Worms
Students become connected with nature by handling and caring for another living creature. Focuses on insect care and familiarization with a meal worm.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Playing Name Bingo With
Contains plans for two lessons of get-to-know-you activities that use a Name Bingo Game to help students break the ice with each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
Starfall
Starfall: All About Me!
Use this interactive site for a fun way to use picture clues to help recognize words. Two of the activities are available for free.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting to Know You
The students will go on an in-school scavenger hunt to get to know the many kinds of people that make up an elementary school community. They will work in small groups and use digital cameras to take pictures of the workers they find. By...
PBS
Classics for Kids: Note Name Game
Have fun playing this interactive game that helps you practice your knowledge of note names. Drag and drop the names of the notes to spell words.
NASA
Nasa: Learn About Me: Curiosity
Learn about the robot that is exploring Mars to see if the planet could supported microbes with this interactive site. Students investigate the parts of the robot by clicking and rotating a picture of the rover.
Other
Multicultural Awareness Respect Activity
A brief article suggesting a "getting to know you" activity. Discusses the different aspects of respect and learning from our differences. SL.9-10.1d Possitive Communication Stratagies
ClassFlow
Class Flow: All About Me
[Free Registration/Login Required] Similarities and differences of each child, address, phone number, caregivers.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Getting to Know You
[Free Registration/Login Required] In the beginning of the school year, introduce your students to each other by answering the questions on this flipchart.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Supremes
The most popular female group of the sixties, The Supremes was headed by a singer named Diana Ross. Use this site to learn about their career, their hit songs, even the break-up of the group. Also included in this site is a timeline just...
PBS
Classics for Kids: This Week
This website is sponsored by a classical radio station in the Midwest. The site contains audio files and text files of past shows, games, a handful of lesson plans, and lots of energy. You can find information on many composers by...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Spotlight on Students
First graders will write opinions about the "favorites" in their lives. Students will share their "favorites when they are featured as the "Top Banana" in the class during assigned weeks throughout the school year.
Other
Cape Breton Victoria: First Day of School Activities
Are you looking for some creative activities to get to know your students on the first day of class? This site has compiled a list of great activities, icebreakers, and team-building games to get your classes off on the right foot.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
Contains back-to-school poetry lesson ideas that ask students to write poems in order to get to know each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
Other
How Do You play.net: How to Play Icebreaker Pictionary
Instructions for how to set up and play the game Icebreaker Pictionary. The game is designed to help students get to know one another better.
Other
How Do You play.net: How to Play People Bingo Icebreaker
Instructions for how to play the icebreaker activity People Bingo. The game uses bingo cards that list interesting facts about people. Students must collect signatures of peers who fulfill the facts listed in the sqaures until they have...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Super Skeletons
Learn more about the bones that make up your internal framework. This site provides learning opportunities through games, experiments, activities, and songs.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Name Bingo
Students will gain a sense of community during this lesson. Students will play School Bingo, engage in the shared reading of Chrysanthemum, and then play Name Bingo with the students' names featured on the Bingo cards.
Other
Research Project Guide: A Handbook for Teachers and Students
This resource provides guided research teaching units for all levels of learners.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: First Week of School, Day 1
Sixth graders will learn about each other from a toilet paper activity.