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Uncommon Commonalities

Skill Building

K-5 Grade

6-8 Grade

9-12 Grade

20 Mins

Resource author: Allison Lerman Gluck and Helen White

How can similarities we share with others bring us closer together as a community?

During this lesson students will be tasked with finding things they have in common with a small group of their classmates/peers.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to work together to find as many shared facts and interests as possible in an allotted time.

Materials

  • None

Preview Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan

Uncommon Commonalities

15 minutes

    • Break students into groups of 3-4 students.
  • Say: Today we are going to play a game called “Uncommon Commonalities”. During this game, your goal is to figure out how many things everyone in their group has in common in just 3 minutes.  These should not be visible commonalities, such as your hair color or shoes, but something you cannot see about one another.