The Adventure of the Speckled Band | 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. Mystery Clues

Concoct a mystery of your own with clues and other things of that nature. This could be kind of like a scavenger hunt. Award prizes to the team who completes it first.

2. Strange Animals

Split the class into groups and assign each group one of the rare animals that appears in this book- i.e.: swamp adder, baboon, leopard, etc. Have each group study their animal and give a short report about their animal.

3. Puppet Show