Secret Handshake
1) Put students in pairs or small groups.
2) Students invent a creative secret handshake with multiple steps. Each step should have a symbolic meaning that represents something about each member of the pair or small group.
3) Students mingle and find another pair or group. They demonstrate their secret handshake with eachother and the other group tries to replicate the handshake based on what they saw. Then the group speculates about the symbolic meanings of the different stages of the handshake.
4) The original group members explain the true significance and students mingle to find other groups to demonstrate their handshake to.
Use your handout as a reference to answer these questions:
-Does this warm up fit into one or more of the five categories?
-What function(s) does this warm up serve?
-What principles are present/missing?
-How might you adapt, improve, or expand upon this warm up?
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