Back to School Ice Breakers with Wordle

If you haven't heard of Projects by Jen yet, you are missing out.  Jen has created a series of global collaboration opportunities for students of various ages.  Her website is definitely worth checking out.  Our mechina students participated in her O.R.E.O. project last year and you can see that it garnered quite a bit of enthusiasm from the students and teachers.

To start out the year, Jen has created an irresistible project that taps into the inquisitive nature of our students through problem-solving.  It is called Guess the Wordle.  The object is to discover what each of the words in the Wordle have in common.  An answer key is provided to check if the guesses are correct.  The Wordle challenges are divided by level and topic so that students can progress to more challenging Wordles.  As a back to school activity, students can get to know each other by creating their own Wordles that describe themselves and then have classmates try to guess who created the Wordles.  It's a great way to break the ice!