Ideas
17. Cheers: create a cheer explaining a scientific
or mathematical process. Alternately, a cheer could
summarize the events of a novel or an historic episode.
18. Classified Ads: create classified type ads as seen
in newspapers. It could be a wanted ad or a M4F type
ad depending on the age of your students. Update
the concept and have students create Craigslist ads or
Ebay listings. Example applications include covering
vocabulary words, introducing multiple characters in
a drama, examining figures in an historical event, or
studying endangered and extinct plants and animals.
19. Coat of Arms: create a family coat of arms for a
character from a novel or a person from history. A good
activity for teaching symbolism.
20. Collages: create a collage or collection of images
related to a topic. Images can be hand drawn, printed,
or clipped from a magazine or newspaper. These work
best with large thematic ideas that give students the
ability to maneuver, like a collage representing slavery,
the 1920s, or an entire story.
21. Comic Strips or Books: create an illustrated
comic strip or book representing events from history or
a work of fiction.
22. Crossword Puzzles: create a crossword puzzle
to review definitions of challenging vocabulary words.
Great for science, social studies, reading, and even math
terms.
23. Diary Entries: create a diary entries for a person
from history or a fictional character who experienced
an historic event. Can also be applied to characters in a
story or survivors of a disaster.
24. Dramas: create a play. Students might adapt an
existing story or create original works and plays can be
centered around any event in history.
25. Editorials: provide an opinion about a hot topic
in history or science. Should the space program be
reduced? Is US military intervention in current conflicts
appropriate? Is global warming a concern?
26. Fables: create fables that teach a lesson.
Students may create illustrated story boards of their
original fables or even dramatic adaptations which
they then perform. A good character building activity.
27. Flags: create a flag representing either an actual
county (like Libya) or fictitious place (like Narnia).
This project should be accompanied by a brief report
explaining what ideas the colors and images on the
flags represent.
28. Flash Cards: create cards helpful for study and
review. Flash cards can be created for any subject and
topic.
29.
Flowcharts: students create flowchart [