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The following brain-break questions help students focus attention by turning their thinking upside down.
- Are you more like a cracker or cookie?
- Would you rather be extra-large or extra-small? Why?
- What if walls could talk? Which walls would you most like to interview? Why?
- What are the disadvantages of being able to read minds? Write the schedule you will follow on a new holiday called Opposite Day.
- Write a description of an imaginary teacher who teaches you in the most fabulous ways.
- Describe a problem that has no solution.
- Describe five unusual uses for a toothpick.
- You have the world's oldest notebook, and inside are five of the world's top secrets. What are they and what will you do with them?
- You are allowed to fly 10,000 feet in the air for three hours. Where would you go and what would you like to see?
- Are you more like earth, air, fire or water?
Source: edutopia.org
