The Cat Who Turned On and Off | 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. Examples of Junkshop Items

Students bring to class and display items or large photos of items that might be found in a junkshop.

2. Dangerous Finials

Collect pictures of sharp pointed finials of various kinds and make a bulletin board display of these potential murder weapons.

3. Whodunit?

Bring a game of CLUE to class and use it to demonstrate how asking and answering questions make it possible to solve a mystery.

4. Fantasy Movie Cast

The class suggests and votes on...
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