Out of the Silent Planet 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. Reality

Have everyone bring an item into school that may not be easy to tell what it is without sight. In turn, blindfold students and have them use their touch to guess what the object might be.

2. Language

Divide into groups of three. Have two students try to explain a technology that doesn't exist in the third student's reality; e.g., a computer to someone in the bronze age.

3. Viewpoint

For one class period when anyone says something they have to...
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