Planning Activities

Activities for Time line:
1. Ice Breakers!!!
These are great but sometimes difficult to start.
Based on my experience as an Academic Instructional Mentor for College Freshmen, I’ve met students who did not want to participate in the ice breakers. They thought they were silly. Here is an Ice breakers I found that students may enjoy.
Taken from : http://www.ehow.com/way_5317471_ice-breaking-activities-high-school.html“What Changed? In this observation game, everyone lines up in two lines facing each other. After everyone is paired up, they are given 30 seconds to study everything about the person in front of them. Then the students in one line turn around and close their eyes. Meanwhile, the students in the other line change something about themselves. Changes could include taking off their glasses, reversing their shoes or removing an earring or a barrette. Once everyone has changed something, the other kids turn around and try to guess what changed. Then, switch roles and play again.”
Taken from : http://www.training-games.com/pdf/40FreeIceBreakers.pdf

The Artist Game•Give everyone a piece of paper and a pencil. In 5 minutes they must draw a picture that conveys who they
are without writing any words or numbers. At the end of 5 minutes the host collects the pictures. Show the
pictures to the group one at a time and have them try to guess who drew it. After this allow each of the
artists to introduce themselves and explain how their work clearly conveys who they are.
2. Getting to Know You Survey in the beginning of the program:
a. What are they excited about here at Kean?
b. What are they unsure of at Kean?
c. What are their academic goals?
d. What are their future goals in life?
e. What are they interested in? Any hobbies?
f. What town are they from?
g. What’s their favorite type of music?
h. What makes you unique?
i. Which subject does you like the most? Why? What subject do you like the least? Why?

3. Time Management: Schedule their studying schedule and homework schedule along with activites.

4. Review reading skills, the ways we can skim, search for key words, reading for a purpose

5. Decoding types of writing assignments they will have

6. Introduction to Kean website (keanwise)

7. Introduction to OWL PURDUE website, how to navigate through this site in order to write specific types of paper.

8. Overview of different physical resources that is available to them.

9. Attendance and sign in sheets