By Monica Crews | monicacrews.com
🎯 Would You Rather: End-of-Year Edition
How to Play:
Read a question. Students choose a side, move, or discuss with a partner. Invite a few to explain their thinking.
⏱ Time: 5–15 min
📎 Materials: None
👉 Mix it up!
Use a combination of:
- Fun/silly questions (for engagement)
- Thoughtful questions (for discussion)
- Real-life questions (for reflection)
That balance keeps students hooked AND thinking.
🎉 QUESTIONS
- Would you rather redo the first day of school or the last day?
- Would you rather have no homework all year or no tests all year?
- Would you rather sit by your best friend or pick your own seat all year?
- Would you rather have indoor recess forever or outdoor recess every day?
- Would you rather repeat this grade or skip the next one?
- Would you rather have lunch first or recess first every day?
- Would you rather do group work or work independently all year?
- Would you rather have your teacher as a student or be the teacher for a day?
- Would you rather take a field trip every week or have a class party every Friday?
- Would you rather keep school going year-round or have a super long summer?
- Would you rather have a class pet or a class party every month?
- Would you rather have a longer recess or a longer lunch every day?
- Would you rather switch teachers for a day or switch classrooms for a week?
- Would you rather do a science experiment or an art project every day?
- Would you rather have a surprise quiz or a scheduled test?
- Would you rather sit anywhere you want or always sit in assigned seats?
- Would you rather have music playing during work time or complete silence?
- Would you rather be the line leader every day or the teacher’s helper every day?
- Would you rather have a field day every month or a field trip every semester?
- Would you rather relive your funniest school moment or your proudest moment?
😂 FUNNY / SILLY “WOULD YOU RATHER” (KIDS LOVE THESE)
- Would you rather have a teacher who only whispers or only shouts everything?
- Would you rather have to hop everywhere in school or crawl everywhere?
- Would you rather have a classroom full of bouncing balls or flying paper airplanes all day?
- Would you rather wear your backpack on your head or your shoes on your hands all day?
- Would you rather have a test where every answer is “banana” or every answer is “chicken nugget”?
- Would you rather have recess in the rain every day or inside with no games?
- Would you rather your desk randomly squeak every time you move or your chair make a loud noise every time you sit?
- Would you rather have a substitute teacher every day or the same lesson repeated all day?
- Would you rather have to sing your answers or dance your answers in class?
- Would you rather your teacher talk in slow motion or super fast all day?
🎯 MIDDLE SCHOOL / HIGH SCHOOL VERSION
These hit a little deeper and get great discussion going:
- Would you rather have no homework but harder tests or easy tests but homework every night?
- Would you rather work in groups for every assignment or independently all year?
- Would you rather give presentations every week or take a test every week?
- Would you rather have school start later but end later or start earlier and end earlier?
- Would you rather repeat this grade or skip the next one and be unprepared?
- Would you rather have one teacher for all subjects or a different teacher every period?
- Would you rather be graded on effort or only on results?
- Would you rather take notes digitally or by hand for every class?
- Would you rather have strict rules with clear expectations or flexible rules with more freedom?
- Would you rather have a challenging class with your friends, or an easy class with people you don’t know?