Chapterhouse: Dune | 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. Diorama

Build a diorama of Central based on your mental images of the grounds.

2. Spice

Using kitchen ingredients that are available to you, make a mixture that you think smells like the description of spice.

3. Glowglobes

Build a working model of a glowglobe.

4. Sandworm

Try to recreate the drawing of a sandworm that Sheeana has on her bedroom wall.

5. Frictionless Machinery

Research the possibility of frictionless machinery (as in a no-ship), and make an assessment of whether it...
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