Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | 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. Travel Agent

Class presentation. Students will divide into groups of four. Two of the group are the tourists and two are travel agents. The two travel agents will attempt to convince the two tourists, who ask a lot of questions, to vacation at Tinker Creek Lodge.

2. Journal Writing

Keep a journal for one day. Write a short story based on your journal.

3. Seeing

Have everyone bring an item into school that may not be easy to identify without sight. In...
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