Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Secret Language

Create a language of your own to emulate what Daniel Tammet did. Write a short list of the vocabulary words in your language with their definitions. Explain how you chose those words. Name your language.

2. Poetry

Put yourself in Daniel's place when he was a child in school and create a poem to describe his feelings. Include his loneliness and desire for friends in your poem. Your poem may be written in any style.