Kalevala | 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. Fables

What other books do these stories remind the students of? Ask them to relate as many of the stories as they can remember from childhood. What do these stories try to explain?

2. Children's stories

Ask the students to debate whether these stories are for children alone, or whether they might have something to teach adolescents or adults as well.

3. Creation myths

What other creation myths do students know? What other myths explain the way things are,...
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