Pudd'nhead Wilson | 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. Finger Printing

Have each person in class be fingerprinted. Discuss some of the major differences seen in these fingerprints and why they are so easy to distinguish from one another.

2. Palm Reading

Using a chart, practice reading each students palm.

3. Switched Babies

Have the students come up with some other ways, aside from the fingerprints, that the switched babies could have been discovered.

4. Parenting Methods

Judge Driscoll choses an interesting way to raise Tom, which accounts for his...
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