Moby-Dick 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. Watch a segment of FREE WILLIE

View some scenes from FREE WILLIE for a feel of a whale's interaction with man.

2. Watch some scenes from any of the MOBY DICK Hollywood Films

Discuss the scenes as to authenticity.

3. Whale Collage

Find and copy pictures of whales to make a collage on the class bulletin board.

4. Hangman from the Mast

Play a game of Hangman where the marks for wrong answers are represented as a stick figure man hanging from...
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