🎓 100+ Icebreaker Questions for Students

Back to School Questions

Perfect for the first week of school:

1. 1. What's one thing you're excited about this school year? 📋
2. 2. What's one goal you have for yourself this year? 📋
3. 3. What was the highlight of your summer break? 📋
4. 4. What's your favorite thing about coming back to school? 📋
5. 5. What subject are you most looking forward to learning about? 📋
6. 6. What's one thing you hope to learn this year? 📋
7. 7. What's something you want to improve from last year? 📋
8. 8. What's your favorite school supply? 📋
9. 9. What's the best book you read over the summer? 📋
10. 10. What's one thing you'd like your classmates to know about you? 📋

11. 11. What's your favorite part of the school day? 📋
12. 12. What's your favorite way to organize your backpack/desk? 📋
13. 13. What's a new skill you'd like to learn this year? 📋
14. 14. What's your favorite thing about our classroom? 📋
15. 15. What's something that makes you feel confident at school? 📋
16. 16. What's your favorite memory from last school year? 📋
17. 17. What kind of projects do you hope we do this year? 📋
18. 18. What's one thing you're curious about? 📋
19. 19. What's your favorite thing to do during recess/break? 📋
20. 20. What makes a good classmate? 📋

Getting to Know You Questions

Help students share about themselves:

21. 21. What's your favorite hobby and why do you enjoy it? 📋
22. 22. What's your favorite thing to do on weekends? 📋
23. 23. What's your favorite movie or TV show? 📋
24. 24. What's your favorite type of music? 📋
25. 25. What's your favorite food? 📋
26. 26. What's your favorite season and why? 📋
27. 27. What's your favorite animal? 📋
28. 28. What's your favorite game to play? 📋
29. 29. What's your favorite holiday? 📋
30. 30. What's your favorite thing to do with your family? 📋

Fun & Silly Questions

Light-hearted questions to get students laughing:

31. 31. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? 📋
32. 32. If you were an animal, which one would you be? 📋
33. 33. What's the funniest joke you know? 📋
34. 34. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? 📋
35. 35. What's your dream job? 📋
36. 36. If you could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? 📋
37. 37. What's the silliest thing you've ever done? 📋
38. 38. If you could invent something, what would it be? 📋
39. 39. What's your favorite cartoon character? 📋
40. 40. If you could shrink anything and carry it in your pocket, what would it be? 📋

Deep & Thoughtful Questions

Questions to encourage meaningful reflection:

41. 41. What's something you're proud of? 📋
42. 42. What's a challenge you've overcome? 📋
43. 43. What's something you want to get better at? 📋
44. 44. Who is someone you look up to and why? 📋
45. 45. What's something that makes you unique? 📋
46. 46. What's a problem you'd like to solve in the world? 📋
47. 47. What's something you've learned that changed your perspective? 📋
48. 48. What's something you wish adults understood about kids? 📋
49. 49. What's something that always makes you smile? 📋
50. 50. What do you want to be remembered for? 📋

Classroom Team Building

Questions to build community and collaboration:

51. 51. What's something you appreciate about the person next to you? 📋
52. 52. What makes a good friend? 📋
53. 53. How can we make our classroom more welcoming? 📋
54. 54. What's something you'd like to teach your classmates? 📋
55. 55. What's a skill you'd like to learn from a classmate? 📋
56. 56. What's something we could do to help each other succeed? 📋
57. 57. What's your favorite way to work in a group? 📋
58. 58. What's a project you'd love to work on with a team? 📋
59. 59. What's something you're good at that you could help others with? 📋
60. 60. What makes you feel supported in the classroom? 📋

... and 40+ more questions to engage your students!