Get-to-Know Activity

Group Building

Luleå (Sweden)
Duration: One lesson
Participants age: 12-16 years old
Subjects: All subjects
The activity contributes to:
- Value education
- Promoting positive interaction and collaboration among students
- Encouraging pro-social teacher–student interaction
- Creating organisational prerequisites for social well-being within the school
Well-being area: Social
Student participation: High
Feasibility for teachers: Medium
Materials: A photo album created, for example, as a PowerPoint presentation using the photos submitted by students

Description

Well in advance of the lesson, each student submits a photo that shows something they enjoy doing in their free time. The photo is sent to their mentor/teacher. The student themselves, or anything that could reveal whose photo it is, must not appear in the image.
The teacher saves the images in a shared folder (e.g. OneDrive), opens Microsoft PowerPoint, selects Insert, and then Photo Album, choosing the folder where the students’ photos are stored.
During the lesson, the PowerPoint presentation is shown one photo at a time. All students guess whose photo it is. Once the identity is revealed, the student briefly explains why they chose that photo

Experience from testing

The activity was appreciated by both students and teachers. It was a fun activity that led to spontaneous discussion and allowed students to get to know each other in a simple and engaging way.

Learn more

Photos and images can be used in many simple ways, such as:

Get-to-know activities
Two truths and one lie
Creating a story
“What feeling does this image give you?”
And more