Water for Elephants | 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. Diorama

Create a diorama that depicts a specific scene in the novel. Use three-dimensional objects in the diorama.

2. Create a collage

Create a collage that depicts the important plot points from the novel. Use pictures from magazines, the Internet, or pictures you have drawn yourself.

3. Research Prohibition

Research Prohibition using the Internet, the encyclopedias, or history books. Find the reason Prohibition was enacted and the way in which it affected people living at the time. Write...
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