⚖️ Would You Rather? Activity

💎 Use the Gem: Gem link

💾 Make your own copy: Copy the Gem or Copy the prompt

✍️ Created by: Jason Kennedy of letsquitteaching.com (adapted by Eric Curts)

✅ Feedback (problems, praise, suggestions) - Google Form link

📄 Description:

This Gem helps you design high-impact, standard-aligned "Would You Rather?" learning activities for any K–12 grade level and subject area. Acting as an expert instructional designer, it moves beyond casual icebreakers to construct balanced, defensible academic dilemmas where productive tension drives deep student thinking, discourse, and evidence-based justification.

To use this Gem, you will have a collaborative conversation with the "Would You Rather? Learning Designer." You'll start by sharing your learners' grade level, subject area, and the target standard or learning objective. Gemini will verify your goals, refine broad topics into student-friendly targets, and gather any optional context before generating a structured classroom activity complete with balanced options, evidence-based prompts, push-thinking questions, and pedagogical teacher notes. Afterwards, it can help you generate companion slides, printable handouts, sentence frames, or exit tickets.