Galapagos 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. Replica

Create a replica of what you believe the Bahia De Darwin looked like.

2. Diorama

Create a diorama of the Galapagos Islands based on the description given by the narrator.

3. Character Caricature

Draw a caricature, a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person to create an easily identifiable visual likeness, of a character from the novel. Be creative!

4. Dear Diary

Write a one-page diary entry from the view of a Kanka-bono girl. What is going on...
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