Welcome to this small collection of dice breaker and debrief templates. You can find tons of questions online, but it’s nice to be able to customize for your own use. Adapt and customize to your own delight!
You will also find contributions from others!
Have fun!
Miguel Guhlin (@mGuhlin) CC-BY-NC 4.0
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Last Updated: 02/22/22
D-Icebreaker Activities
DIcebreaker
Roll Your Digital Dice - https://go.mgpd.org/roll
@mGuhlin
What's your favorite sport to play?
What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
What's your favorite YouTube channel?
What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
What's your most embarrassing moment?
If you won a million dollars, what would you do with it?
DIcebreaker
Roll Your Digital Dice - https://go.mgpd.org/roll
@mGuhlin
What's your favorite sport to play?
What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
What's your favorite YouTube channel?
What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
What's your most embarrassing moment?
If you won a million dollars, what would you do with it?
DIcebreaker
Roll Your Dice, then share with your group what the number shows. �Keep going until time expires.
@mGuhlin
What's your favorite sport to play?
What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
What's your favorite YouTube channel?
What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?
What's your most embarrassing moment?
If you won a million dollars, what would you do with it?
DIcebreaker
Roll Your Dice, then share with your group what the number shows. Keep going until time expires.
@mGuhlin
What's your favorite sport to play?
What’s one show you binge-watched?
What's your favorite YouTube channel?
Describe something funny a pet has done.
What's your most embarrassing moment?
If you could spend the day as one of your favorite cartoon characters, who would it be? Why?
What’s your favorite type of food?
What’s your favorite color?
What special recipe do you know, or would like to learn, how to make?
Dice Debrief
Image Credit: https://teachingthem.com/tag/debrief/
DIce Debrief
Roll Your Digital Dice - https://go.mgpd.org/roll
Design inspired by @mrshowell24
@mGuhlin
Share ONE new
thing you learned today.
List three big ideas from today’s learning experience.
Reach out to FIVE other people and ask them to share ONE idea they learned.
Find four resources you can use in the future. Share them with someone else.
Make two positive observations about another’s work.
Make up a story or draw a picture of what you learned today.
DIce Debrief
Roll Your Digital Dice - https://go.mgpd.org/roll
Design inspired by @mrshowell24
@mGuhlin
Share ONE new
thing you learned today.
List three big ideas from today’s learning experience.
Make a list of FIVE other people you are going to share this with.
Find four resources you can use in the future. Share them with someone else.
List two tools or strategies you liked.
Write down SIX actions you are going to take as a result of this session.
DIcebreaker
Roll Your Dice, then share with your group what the number shows. Keep going until time expires.
@mGuhlin
What's your favorite sport to play?
What’s one show you binge-watched?
What's your favorite YouTube channel?
Describe something funny a pet has done.
What's your most embarrassing moment?
If you could spend the day as one of your favorite cartoon characters, who would it be? Why?
What’s your favorite type of food?
What’s your favorite color?
What special recipe do you know, or would like to learn, how to make?
| Share your favorite story or book | A funny (clean) joke you heard and it stuck with you | What do you like to do on weekends? | Your favorite song and why | You’ve been asked to write a book about your life. What would the first sentence be? The last? |
| What is your favorite television show? | The shape you see most often when you look at the clouds in the sky | How fast can you walk/run the mile? | Your favorite season and why | The world ends, tomorrow. What are the top five things you would do? |
| Your favorite superhero and what universe (e.g. Marvel or DC) | Pick your favorite color of the rainbow and name three things that are that color | A special place you have been to or remember | Your favorite fruit | What three words would your friends use to describe you? |
| The meal that makes your heart happy. | Your favorite number | A memory you treasure (that you can share with others) | You are stuck on a deserted island, but you can get three things to make life easier. What would you get? | A book publisher wants you to write a story. What would your story be about? |
| A subject or topic that you love to learn about. | Your favorite football team. | A place you would like to visit some day | You have a special power; you can speak to animals. What animal would you speak to and what would you say or ask? | Ships are leaving to colonize Mars. Would you go or stay? Why? |
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DIcebreaker Grid
Roll Your Dice twice, then share with your group what the number shows. Keep going until time expires. Inspired by this tweet.
@mGuhlin
DIce Breaker
Roll Your Digital Dice - https://go.mgpd.org/roll
@mGuhlin
What’s ONE question you have about MLK, Jr.?
Share three things you know or think you know about MLK, Jr.
Reach out to FIVE other people and ask them to share ONE thing about MLK, Jr.
Find four resources you can use in the future. Share them with someone else.
What are two words that come to mind when you hear his name?
Make up a mythical story about MLK, Jr. when he was a boy.
DIceBREAKER
Roll Your Dice, then share with your group what the number shows. Keep going until time expires.
@mGuhlin
What’s a favorite Winter Break food?
What is your favorite Winter food to warm your tummy?
What song captures winter break for you the best?
Who’s your favorite Frozen character? Why?
What is your special Winter outdoor activity or sport?
Draw a picture of your favorite winter break activity.
DIceBREAKER
Roll Your Dice, then share with your group what the number shows. Keep going until time expires.
@mGuhlin w/ colors by @preimers
What’s a favorite Winter Break beverage?
What is your favorite Winter food to warm your tummy?
What song captures winter break for you the best?
Who’s your favorite Frozen character? Why?
What is your special Winter outdoor activity or sport?
Draw a picture of your favorite winter break activity.
DIce Debrief
Roll Your Digital Dice - https://go.mgpd.org/roll
Design inspired by @mrshowell24
@mGuhlin
Share ONE new
thing you learned today.
List three big ideas from today’s learning experience.
Reach out to FIVE other people and ask them to share ONE idea they learned.
Find four resources you can use in the future. Share them with someone else.
Make two positive observations about another’s work.
Make up a story or draw a picture of what you learned today.
Roll a Story
Example of “Roll a Christmas Story” from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, �available online at 12/6/2021 at https://tinyurl.com/hmhracs
More examples via Google Search:
Modify the Roll A Story template on the following page, and adjust characters, setting, and problem to match your goals. See the example linked below for a “Roll a Christmas Story.”
Roll a Story
Roll Your Dice three times to determine character, setting, and problem.
@mGuhlin
What's your favorite sport to play?
What's your favorite YouTube channel?
What's your most embarrassing moment?
Roll 1: Character
Roll 2: Setting
Roll 3: Problem
A blind person
A person under a magic spell
An orphan waiting for adoption
An Indigenous child
A rich, Black person
Free Choice
On the way to school
A bully and her gang
Alien invasion
Your people’s customs are under attack by enslavers
School board meeting
A space shuttle in orbit
Free Choice
A garden
Sitting at dinner on a dark and stormy night
Pounding at the front door
Free Choice
Zombie apocalypse
Contributed Activities
Roll +/- Word Problem
Roll Your Dice three times to determine the type of problem and the numbers you will use. Then write your word problem and solve it.
By �Karen Huber @HuberHeroes
What's your favorite sport to play?
What's your most embarrassing moment?
Roll 1: Operation
Roll 2: Amount
Roll 3: Amount
Part/Part/Whole
Change Problem
Comparison
Part/Whole
Change Problem
Comparison
A three digit number with a 2 in the tens place
A two digit number that is a multiple of 5
A two digit number that is odd
A two digit number that is less than 99 but greater than 70
A three digit number with an even digit in the hundreds place
A three digit number that is even
A three digit number with a 9 in the hundreds place
A 3 digit number with a zero in the tens place
A 3 digit number with a 5 in the hundreds place
A 2 digit number with a 9 in the ones place
A three digit number with a 0 in the one’s place
A two digit number with a 0 in the ones place