Ways of Seeing | 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. Interpreted Descriptions

Have students work in pairs, assign one student to describe what they are looking at and one student to draw the sight of the first student based only on the description given to them. Switch roles, and then compare drawings.

2. Role Writing

Give students a copy of a traditional oil painting that depicts both a man and a woman in the same painting. Have students observe, and then write the role for the man and the role for the...
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