Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner 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. Conspiracy Theory

Write a fiction story about a modern person in media, in which there is a conspiracy theory surrounding his or her death. Be sure to use the public opinion of the person to devise the conspiracy theory, and be detailed in your story.

2. Medical Examiner Reenactment

Reenact the scene where Baden helps Helpern do the autopsy of the man feared to have died of small pox. What types of things were the others in the room fearing?...
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