Icebreaker fun! The NUMBERS game!

 It's early summer but I am already on the hunt for ideas for back to school (it's a given when you have 6 preps in one semester and you refuse to repeat activities since some kids may take you multiple classes per day!). 

I ran across this fun idea today, the Numbers game! Here's the YouTube video and then my suggestions.

I love the idea of getting students UP and MOVING. I think week 1, this is important. This is also a great activity for getting them to have to work with others (without them even realizing it because it all moves so quickly). 

So, the guy in the video just has them doing arbitrary numbers, but as a business teacher, I thought... come on, how can we make this a little more "interesting" and so here is my take!

• I may not have 20 or 30 (or exactly that number, rather) kids in a class... so I think setting this up with maybe smaller group numbers would be easier. You might have to have a person in the group who does not have a number and helps put them in order OR you could have a number that repeats (like zero) and have multiple of that one.
• Price is Right style-->
• Go on Amazon or get out the local grocery store ad and use prices of items
• If someone is correct, they win... or you can give them so much time and then pick who is closest to award points OR you could say that this team is closest and the answer is higher or lower or whatever
• "When Did It Happen" style-->
• I found this webpage from Information Age with key events in the story of technology and this one from LiveScience with Internet History. You could use dates for all answers (4 digit years)... granted, many of these will have a 1, 9, or a 2 in them... but it would be a race to guess correctly AND you can relate it to tech!
• Examples:
• 1832: Charles Babbage invents the first Computer.
• 1904: John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.
• 1936: Alan Turing proposes what has become known as the Turing Machine.
• 1976: Queen Elizabeth II hits the “send button” on her first email.
• 1981: IBM invents the PC.
• 1983: The Domain Name System (DNS) establishes the familiar .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, and .int system for naming websites.
• 1991: CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the public.
• 1995: The first online dating site, Match.com, launches.
• 1997: Netflix is founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph as a company that sends users DVDs by mail.
• 1998: The Google search engine is born, changing the way users engage with the Internet.
• 2003: The blog publishing platform WordPress is launched.
• 2005: YouTube.com launches. The social news site Reddit is also founded. 
• 2007: Apple releases the iPhone.
• Get to Know Mr/Mrs style-->
• Honestly, I'd embed this in the other games, but you could have a few just fun facts about you to help them get to know you... like the year you got married, graduated high school, turned 40, got your first car... 

What do you think? I am excited to try this one out in the fall. Heck, this might even be fun in an adult leadership retreat or conference!