High School Career and Technical Education Games

This AVID team-building card game is the perfect icebreaker for students who want to practice their public speaking skills in a fun and interactive way. Designed for use in a classroom or group setting, this card game challenges players to give a 1-minute speech about a topic using the card they draw. This engaging activity not only helps students build their public speaking confidence but also teaches them valuable skills in communication and creative thinking!

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, Fishbowl Speeches is the perfect choice!

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How to Play Fishbowl Speeches

• Place the 25 different topics into a container and mix them up to ensure random selection.
• Ask a student to select a topic from the container and read it out loud.
• Allow 30 seconds for the student to brainstorm the content and delivery of their speech. Provide one minute for the student to present their answer to the question or topic.

What's Included

• Directions page
• 25 Topics
• blank cards to write your own words

Example topics

Persuade everyone in the class to give you a dollar

Should colleges use only SAT®/ACT® scores for admissions?

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Give your students the opportunity to explore many different careers in a fun and interactive way! This "What Career" card game is played similar to the card game "Apples to Apples" and my students LOVED it! It lead to a lot of conversation, sharing of likes and dislikes, and questioning of what specific careers were - it was so refreshing to listen to them talk non-stop about careers during these class periods! Included in the download is everything you need to play the game, including instructions and step by step guide!

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Engage Your Students with Holiday Fun: 12 Days of Christmas Veterinary Technician Edition Trivia!
Looking for a festive, educational, and interactive way to keep your students engaged during the holiday season? This 12 Days of Christmas Veterinary Technician Edition Trivia activity is perfect for high school students.
✨ What’s Included:

• A student-friendly trivia handout with 12 vet-tech themed trivia questions, each inspired by The 12 Days of Christmas.
• Teacher instructions for setting up and running the activity effortlessly.
• A creative, hands-on group activity that encourages teamwork, critical thinking, and holiday cheer.
• A competitive twist with jingle bells for teams to signal when they’ve completed their answers.

✨ Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy to implement with minimal prep—perfect for busy educators during the holiday season!
• Engages students with collaborative learning in a fun, stress-free way.
• Holiday-themed fun while reinforcing key concepts!

✨ How It Works:

1. Students are divided into small teams and receive a trivia handout and a jingle bell.
2. Teams work together to answer 12 festive vet-tech questions.
3. When they think they’ve completed the trivia, they ring their jingle bell for the teacher to check their answers.
4. The first team to answer all questions correctly wins a small holiday prize!

Perfect For:

• Pre-holiday class activities.
• Sub plans.
• Fun review days with a festive twist.

Bring the holiday spirit into your classroom with this engaging activity! It’s educational, festive, and sure to get your students excited while learning.
Grab your copy today and make your holiday lesson plans sparkle! ✨
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Engage Your Students with Holiday Fun: 12 Days of Christmas Health Science Trivia!
Looking for a festive, educational, and interactive way to keep your students engaged during the holiday season? This 12 Days of Christmas Health Science Trivia activity is perfect for high school health science, anatomy, or biology classes!
✨ What’s Included:

• A student-friendly trivia handout with 12 health science-themed questions, each inspired by The 12 Days of Christmas.
• Teacher instructions for setting up and running the activity effortlessly.
• A creative, hands-on group activity that encourages teamwork, critical thinking, and holiday cheer.
• A competitive twist with jingle bells for teams to signal when they’ve completed their answers.

✨ Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy to implement with minimal prep—perfect for busy educators during the holiday season!
• Engages students with collaborative learning in a fun, stress-free way.
• A versatile activity that fits into health science, biology, or anatomy curricula.
• Holiday-themed fun while reinforcing key concepts!

✨ How It Works:

1. Students are divided into small teams and receive a trivia handout and a jingle bell.
2. Teams work together to answer 12 festive health science questions.
3. When they think they’ve completed the trivia, they ring their jingle bell for the teacher to check their answers.
4. The first team to answer all questions correctly wins a small holiday prize!

Perfect For:

• Pre-holiday class activities.
• Sub plans for health science or biology.
• Fun review days with a festive twist.

Bring the holiday spirit into your classroom with this engaging activity! It’s educational, festive, and sure to get your students excited while learning.
Grab your copy today and make your holiday lesson plans sparkle! ✨

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Engage Your Students with Holiday Fun: 12 Days of Christmas Nursing Edition Trivia!
Looking for a festive, educational, and interactive way to keep your students engaged during the holiday season? This 12 Days of Christmas Nursing Edition Trivia activity is perfect for high school students.
✨ What’s Included:

• A student-friendly trivia handout with 12 nursing-themed questions, each inspired by The 12 Days of Christmas.
• Teacher instructions for setting up and running the activity effortlessly.
• A creative, hands-on group activity that encourages teamwork, critical thinking, and holiday cheer.
• A competitive twist with jingle bells for teams to signal when they’ve completed their answers.

✨ Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy to implement with minimal prep—perfect for busy educators during the holiday season!
• Engages students with collaborative learning in a fun, stress-free way.
• Holiday-themed fun while reinforcing key concepts!

✨ How It Works:

1. Students are divided into small teams and receive a trivia handout and a jingle bell.
2. Teams work together to answer 12 festive nursing questions.
3. When they think they’ve completed the trivia, they ring their jingle bell for the teacher to check their answers.
4. The first team to answer all questions correctly wins a small holiday prize!

Perfect For:

• Pre-holiday class activities.
• Sub plans.
• Fun review days with a festive twist.

Bring the holiday spirit into your classroom with this engaging activity! It’s educational, festive, and sure to get your students excited while learning.
Grab your copy today and make your holiday lesson plans sparkle! ✨
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Engage Your Students with Holiday Fun: 12 Days of Christmas Veterinary Technician Edition Trivia!
Looking for a festive, educational, and interactive way to keep your students engaged during the holiday season? This 12 Days of Christmas Veterinary Technician Edition Trivia activity is perfect for high school students.
✨ What’s Included:

• A student-friendly trivia handout with 12 vet-tech themed trivia questions, each inspired by The 12 Days of Christmas.
• Teacher instructions for setting up and running the activity effortlessly.
• A creative, hands-on group activity that encourages teamwork, critical thinking, and holiday cheer.
• A competitive twist with jingle bells for teams to signal when they’ve completed their answers.

✨ Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy to implement with minimal prep—perfect for busy educators during the holiday season!
• Engages students with collaborative learning in a fun, stress-free way.
• Holiday-themed fun while reinforcing key concepts!

✨ How It Works:

1. Students are divided into small teams and receive a trivia handout and a jingle bell.
2. Teams work together to answer 12 festive vet-tech questions.
3. When they think they’ve completed the trivia, they ring their jingle bell for the teacher to check their answers.
4. The first team to answer all questions correctly wins a small holiday prize!

Perfect For:

• Pre-holiday class activities.
• Sub plans.
• Fun review days with a festive twist.

Bring the holiday spirit into your classroom with this engaging activity! It’s educational, festive, and sure to get your students excited while learning.
Grab your copy today and make your holiday lesson plans sparkle! ✨
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Engage Your Students with Holiday Fun: 12 Days of Christmas Health Science Trivia!
Looking for a festive, educational, and interactive way to keep your students engaged during the holiday season? This 12 Days of Christmas Health Science Trivia activity is perfect for high school health science, anatomy, or biology classes!
✨ What’s Included:

• A student-friendly trivia handout with 12 health science-themed questions, each inspired by The 12 Days of Christmas.
• Teacher instructions for setting up and running the activity effortlessly.
• A creative, hands-on group activity that encourages teamwork, critical thinking, and holiday cheer.
• A competitive twist with jingle bells for teams to signal when they’ve completed their answers.

✨ Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy to implement with minimal prep—perfect for busy educators during the holiday season!
• Engages students with collaborative learning in a fun, stress-free way.
• A versatile activity that fits into health science, biology, or anatomy curricula.
• Holiday-themed fun while reinforcing key concepts!

✨ How It Works:

1. Students are divided into small teams and receive a trivia handout and a jingle bell.
2. Teams work together to answer 12 festive health science questions.
3. When they think they’ve completed the trivia, they ring their jingle bell for the teacher to check their answers.
4. The first team to answer all questions correctly wins a small holiday prize!

Perfect For:

• Pre-holiday class activities.
• Sub plans for health science or biology.
• Fun review days with a festive twist.

Bring the holiday spirit into your classroom with this engaging activity! It’s educational, festive, and sure to get your students excited while learning.
Grab your copy today and make your holiday lesson plans sparkle! ✨

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Engage Your Students with Holiday Fun: 12 Days of Christmas Nursing Edition Trivia!
Looking for a festive, educational, and interactive way to keep your students engaged during the holiday season? This 12 Days of Christmas Nursing Edition Trivia activity is perfect for high school students.
✨ What’s Included:

• A student-friendly trivia handout with 12 nursing-themed questions, each inspired by The 12 Days of Christmas.
• Teacher instructions for setting up and running the activity effortlessly.
• A creative, hands-on group activity that encourages teamwork, critical thinking, and holiday cheer.
• A competitive twist with jingle bells for teams to signal when they’ve completed their answers.

✨ Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy to implement with minimal prep—perfect for busy educators during the holiday season!
• Engages students with collaborative learning in a fun, stress-free way.
• Holiday-themed fun while reinforcing key concepts!

✨ How It Works:

1. Students are divided into small teams and receive a trivia handout and a jingle bell.
2. Teams work together to answer 12 festive nursing questions.
3. When they think they’ve completed the trivia, they ring their jingle bell for the teacher to check their answers.
4. The first team to answer all questions correctly wins a small holiday prize!

Perfect For:

• Pre-holiday class activities.
• Sub plans.
• Fun review days with a festive twist.

Bring the holiday spirit into your classroom with this engaging activity! It’s educational, festive, and sure to get your students excited while learning.
Grab your copy today and make your holiday lesson plans sparkle! ✨
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Do you teach a college and career course? Are you an AVID teacher or maybe a counselor? Are your students preparing for the ACT? Then this product is for you! Your students will move around the room and form different groups while discussing 10 important questions related to their performance on a practice PreACT. Get your students engaged in reflection as they prepare for the real thing!

Directions:

• Students walk around the room to music.
• When the music stops students get into a group with however many people are listed in the corner of the slide.
• Each member says their name and answers the question shown.
• Each time students must meet with new people until everyone has been met with.

What do you get?

1 directions slide

10 questions related to extracurricular and involvement activities

10 walk/transition slides

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Looking for an engaging and fun way to help your AVID (or any content area) students build team building and public speaking skills? Look no further than our AVID team building and public speaking card game! Whether you're looking to encourage creativity, boost confidence, or foster teamwork, this AVID team-building and public speaking card game is the perfect choice for your classroom.

With this innovative card game, students will draw a card featuring a unique image and then have the opportunity to present a 1-2 minute commercial for their group, with the freedom to be as silly or serious as they want.

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What's Included:

• Directions page
• 90 commercial image cards
• blank cards to write your own words or images

Directions:

• Print, cut, and laminate the 90 image cards provided.
• Put the picture cards into a box or non-see through bag.
• Put students in groups of 4-6.
• Player draws a card and has 30 seconds to prepare a commercial for the item drawn.
• The commercial should only be 1-2 minutes, silly or serious!

*This resources is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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Team Building Public Speaking and Listening Card Game Activity- Connect the DotsThis: This Card Game is the ultimate public speaking team-building resource for your AVID students (or any content area) - This engaging and educational card game is designed to help students develop their public speaking skills and build teamwork in a fun and interactive way. It is perfect for AVID classrooms and beyond! It's suitable for use in AVID classrooms, as well as any classroom that values public speaking and teamwork.

Connect the dots boosts confidence, enhances communication, and fosters collaboration. Through playing this card game, students will gain the confidence and skills necessary to succeed in public speaking and work effectively in teams, setting them up for success both in and out of the classroom.

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How to Play Connect the Dots

• Print, cut, and laminate the 200 cards provided.

• Put the word cards into box or non-see through bag.

• A player picks two cards and then must immediately begin telling a story connecting both words together convincingly. The story should only be 1-2 minutes, complicated, or true!

• Once your class is comfortable with connecting two words, add to your word collection and increase the number of cards selected to three or even four.

Skills

• Moving from one idea to another smoothly, in a way that can be readily understood and followed by your audience, is a must-have public speaking skill.

• Connect the Dots gives people the opportunity to practice. Finding a way to conenct the words and practicing the ability to make those connections will become stronger and stronger.

• An added benefit of the game is listening and learning from each other.

What's Included

• Directions page
• Skills page
• Example story
• 200 word cards
• blank cards to write your own words

*This resources is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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"From Boogers to Burps: Gross Body Facts Trivia - Perfect for Health Science & Anatomy"

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Engage your students with this fun and interactive Truth or Lie Gross Body Facts Trivia activity, perfect for health science and anatomy lessons! Packed with 25 hilarious and jaw-dropping facts, this resource explores the weird and wacky side of the human body while encouraging critical thinking and teamwork.

What’s Included:

• 25 Truth or Lie Questions: Covering fascinating topics like mucus production, skin shedding, and sweat glands.
• Answer Key: Clear, concise, and ready to use.
• Interactive Game Directions: Fun instructions for a “Team Truth or Lie” classroom game.
• Printable “Truth” and “Lie” Signs: Perfect for team activities or individual participation.

How to Use:

• Incorporate into health science or anatomy lessons for a lively review activity.
• Use as an engaging brain break, or trivia challenge.

Why Students Love It:

• Gross facts keep them laughing and engaged.
• Encourages teamwork and friendly competition.
• Sparks curiosity about how the human body works.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy-to-use, low-prep activity.
• Aligns with health science and anatomy curriculum standards.
• Creates a memorable and fun learning experience.

Make anatomy fun and unforgettable with this Gross Body Facts Trivia Game!

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Do you teach a college and career course? Are you an AVID teacher or maybe a counselor? Are your students needing to enhance their academic career with extracurricular activities? Then this product is for you! Your students will move around the room and form different groups while discussing 10 important questions related to extracurricular and involvement activities. Get your students excited about clubs and sports they could join to enhance their academic career.

Directions:

• Students walk around the room to music.
• When the music stops students get into a group with however many people are listed in the corner of the slide.
• Each member says their name and answers the question shown.
• Each time students must meet with new people until everyone has been met with.

What do you get?

1 directions slide

10 questions related to extracurricular and involvement activities

10 walk/transition slides

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Team Building Public Speaking / Listening Card Game Activity - History Snippets: This team-building card game is the perfect icebreaker for AVID students (or students in any content) who want to practice their public speaking skills in a fun and interactive way. Designed for use in a classroom or group setting, this card game challenges players to give a 1-2 minute speech about an invention or event in history using the card they draw. This engaging activity not only helps students build their public speaking confidence but also teaches them valuable skills in communication and creative thinking!

Whether you're a teacher looking to add a fun and interactive activity to your classroom curriculum, or a team leader looking to build team dynamics and improve communication skills, the AVID team-building card game is the perfect choice!

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How to Play History Snippets

• Put the 100 topic cards/papers into a non-see-through bag.

• Put players into teams of 4-6 players.

• When it's their turn a player pulls a topic from the bag. They then must give an account of the history (story) behind the thing or event they've drawn. It can be factual or false! Encourage imagination, outrageous lies, flights of fantasy...

• The goal of this public speaking game is to sustain credible fluency. Aim for 1 - 2 minutes per story.

What's Included

• Directions page
• 100 history/invention cards
• blank cards to write your own words

*This resource is available for Outschool teachers to purchase without the need for extra licenses.

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"From Boogers to Burps: Gross Body Facts Trivia - Perfect for Health Science & Anatomy"

Product Description:
Engage your students with this fun and interactive Truth or Lie Gross Body Facts Trivia activity, perfect for health science and anatomy lessons! Packed with 25 hilarious and jaw-dropping facts, this resource explores the weird and wacky side of the human body while encouraging critical thinking and teamwork.

What’s Included:

• 25 Truth or Lie Questions: Covering fascinating topics like mucus production, skin shedding, and sweat glands.
• Answer Key: Clear, concise, and ready to use.
• Interactive Game Directions: Fun instructions for a “Team Truth or Lie” classroom game.
• Printable “Truth” and “Lie” Signs: Perfect for team activities or individual participation.

How to Use:

• Incorporate into health science or anatomy lessons for a lively review activity.
• Use as an engaging brain break, or trivia challenge.

Why Students Love It:

• Gross facts keep them laughing and engaged.
• Encourages teamwork and friendly competition.
• Sparks curiosity about how the human body works.

Why Teachers Love It:

• Easy-to-use, low-prep activity.
• Aligns with health science and anatomy curriculum standards.
• Creates a memorable and fun learning experience.

Make anatomy fun and unforgettable with this Gross Body Facts Trivia Game!

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Teach your students about conflict management through this engaging Passive, Assertive, or Aggressive AVID improv game. This would be perfect to pair with your passive, assertive, or aggressive lesson OR used as a fun team building game. This is also a great way for students to practice their public speaking skills.

Directions:

• Each slide will have a number and that number represents how many actors will participate in the improv.
• Actors will be given a challenge to act out a different scenario and will decide who plays what role as a team.
• Actors should draw a card to decide if they are playing a passive, assertive, or aggressive role.
• They must portray a passive, assertive, or aggressive tone as they act out the scenario.
• The student audience will try to guess what tone each actor is portraying.

*consider having audience teams and points

What's Included:

• 1 direction slide
• 1 teach slide with definitions and examples of passive, assertive, and aggressive behaviors
• 15 scenario slides

Some Scenario Examples:

• At a police station being interrogated
• Girl Scouts selling cookies to someone
• News anchor just before the apocalypse

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This exciting summer-themed 30-second speech activity is great for AVID, counseling, college and career, speech, or just used as a fun brain break in any class! Use it at the end of the year to test your students public speaking, dialogue, eye contact, planning, and teamwork skills!

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What's Included:

• 1 directions pages
• 1 optional points slide
• 15 summer topics with silent 30 second prep timers
• 15 thirty-second speech timer slides
• 1 editable template to make your own OR let students make their own!

Directions:

• Put students into groups or breakout rooms of 4-6 students
• Go over the directions with students:
• Wait for the impromptu topic to show up on the screen (ex: convince your friends that applesauce is the best sunburn remedy)
• Decide who in the group will start and that student will have 30 seconds to prepare for their speech after the topic is revealed
• After 30 seconds the student will present their topic for 30 seconds

Optional Points:

• Secretly give points/take away points from group members on a small whiteboard or notebook paper
• Groups can earn by: Focusing on good voice, being creative with their responses, eye contact, posture, using an opening/closing statement, and making good points for your topic
• Groups can lose points by: being a poor audience member, having poor posture, not using good voice, not using eye contact, using filler words: like, um, so, okay, yeah, kinda…

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More 30-Second Speeches...

General Version with 25 Topics

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Design your Own Game...Templates for students do create a game. This item contains the PDF. I can e-mail the PPT for you to use on CANVAS, Schoology, Edmodo in order for your students to download it.

Vocabulary plays a huge role in preparing for student's college and career success. Use this SAT / ACT word list and log to help your students gain a deeper understanding of the vocabulary from any content area OR if you're an AVID teacher use the 53 vocabulary words that focus on academic language essential to the SAT/ACT tests and for college and career readiness. Then let students practice what they learned with an engaging card game inspired by Taboo! Simply print multiple sets of the cards, cut, laminate, and place into bags for small groups!

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What's Included:

• 2 Direction pages
• 53 Vocabulary cards
• 1 Excel log including the 53 words used

Directions for the Card Game:

• This game was inspired by the game TABOO

1. Students are put into small groups with an even number of players.
2. Each group is split into 2 teams.
3. The clue giver will start a 1 minute timer and turn over a card so nobody can see. (colors don' matter)
4. The clue giver now says words (not sounds or gestures) to get their team to guess the word at the top of the card.
5. The clue giver cannot say any of the words (or forms of the words) listed on the card. Formations include: abbreviations, tenses (past, present, future), initials, spelling, letters, sounds like, rhyming, smaller version words, compound words.

6. Teammates can guess as many words as possible before the timer runs out.
7. The clue giver may pass on a word and place it in a discard pile.
8. If the clue giver uses an illegal word, the opposing team who is monitoring, can sound a buzzer or shout the word "AVID." Then the clue giver must place the card in the discard pile and try a new word.
9. When the timer is done the team will count up how many points earned based off of how many words were guessed correctly. The opposing team gets one point for each card placed in the discard pile.
10 Switch teams and repeat. The team with the highest points, wins!

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AVID College Debate Activity - Speed Philosophical Chairs for Team Building: Use this college-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom as well as get students in the college spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "College should be free."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20-speed philosophical chairs college-themed debate statements
• A 5-minute silent timer embedded in each slide

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