The Path Between the Seas 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. Trunk Packing

It is the early stage of the French effort to construct a canal through Panama. Consider yourself a young, patriotic, French engineer recently graduated and hired to work for the Compagnie Universelle. Make a listing of the items you would pack in your trunk to take with you to work there for a year. What sort of clothing and shoes will you take? Books? Other items?

2. American Letter Home

You are employed by an American firm and working in...
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