We Were the Mulvaneys | 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. Nicknames

Have all the students write any nickname they have had at some point in their life on a piece of paper and fold it up and put it into a jar, without their given name on it. Have all the students' given names on one side of a paper and the nicknames in different order down the other side. Have the students try to match the nicknames with the person. This is just for fun so once they...
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