The first fews weeks of school are challenging as everyone starts a new beginning. I have old brain cells and one challenge for me working at the Middle School Level is remembering 100’s of students names. I thought creating a Google My Map as an Ice Breaker may help with this issue. The Google My Map Ice Breaker also serves the function of finding a connection for building relationships with the student. This activity is perfect to use as classroom or faculty ice breaker for strengthening community.
HOW THE GOOGLE MY MAP ICE BREAKER WORKS
- The Google My Map Ice Breaker will open on tablets, Chromebooks, laptops or etc…
- Students will be asked to drop a pin on their dream travel location
- After dropping pin students are asked to add their first name
- Students are also asked to share a reason why they picked the location
- Teacher starts by sharing their dream location with the students
SAMPLE of GOOGLE MY MAP ICE BREAKER
- The dropped pin for the location I chose
- Why I chose this location
GOOGLE MY MAP ICE BREAKER TUTORIAL
- Open Google My Map from your Google APPS for Education My Drive
- My Map will be added to My Drive
- Share the link
- or Open on one device for sharing the activity
- Give it a title along with directions
You can use the title area to present question
- Use the select items tool to drag map until the location is found
- Students can also do a search
- Use the pin tool
- Drag to location of choice
- Window opens after pin is dropped
- Type answers here
- Use pencil tool to edit answers
- Click here to change the color of pin
