Night Probe! | 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. Steam Locomotive

Research the 2-8-0 railroad steam locomotive, like the one in Chapter 1, and create an illustrated report.

2. Semaphore Lantern

Draw a semaphore lantern as it would have looked if Meechum and Harding had been able to signal the train.

3. Two Ships

Cussler uses the ship Empress of Ireland in the book. There was a ship of that name that sank May 29, 1914 on the St. Lawrence River. Use a graphic organizer to compare the ship that Cussler...
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