INTERACTIVE TEMPLATE70 poll questions to energize your sessions

Some teachers like to start the school year off with a series of fun poll questions, as a great icebreaker to help the teacher and the students begin to learn more about each other, get shy students to open up, and generally boost engagement. In the past, it used to be half a sheet or so of paper, with questions such as “What do your parents do?”, “What would you like to do when you grow up?”, “What’s your favorite subject?”, or “If you had to live on a desert island, what one thing would you like to have with you?”, which the teacher would type up and print for the whole class.

While the principle remains the same, times and methods have changed! Today, interactive live polls can help make this moment of social exchange even more fluid, instantaneous, lively, and fun. They are a great way to draw the attention of a class, of a new team, or of company or business meeting participants, and turn a formal exercise into a fun and unifying social moment and a great opportunity to learn and share.

The answers can help students, meeting participants and office colleagues understand each other and make connections between them, helping them to work well together in a team from day one. Simply put, they bring people together. Polls like these can also introduce a topic informally, boosting engagement before going on to tackle more detailed content later on.

To engage your audience from the get-go, you will need to add some fun questions to your poll. So, here is our selection of fun and funny poll questions to get you off to a good start with your students, work colleagues or company team.