FEATURES
35. Inventions: create and illustrate your new
invention that address a problem in nature or society.
Address environmental or sociological issues.
36. Limericks: write limericks about events from
history or scientific discoveries such as, “There once
was a man named Sir Newton…”
37. Magazines: create magazines covering large
units of study such as the Industrial Revolution or
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, that way many articles
can be written. Images may also be drawn or printed
and added to the publication.
38. Maps: create maps based on actual geographic
or national boundaries and landmarks or maps
illustrating the setting of a story and the journey of a
character.
39. Merit Badges: create vocabulary merit badges
where the term is defined in three or fewer words and a
small image is drawn to represent the definition.
40. Movie Adaptations: plan a movie version of
a novel, scientific discovery, or historical event. Pick
who will play what role, plan scenes, write dialog, even
create a soundtrack.
41. Murals: create a mural or a large drawing of
many images related to a larger idea. A mural about the
Harlem Renaissance might contain images of Langston
Hughes, Countee Cullen, and W.E.B. DuBois.
42. Myths: write creation myths to account for
scientific or historic events or for a creative writing
assignment.
43. Newscasts: deliver important information from
literature, history, science, or math in the form of a
newscast. Newscast can be prerecorded or presented
live.
44. Pen-pals: write letters to and from important
people from history or the characters in a story.
45. Poems and Raps: write a poem or rap reviewing
any topic.
46. Postcards: similar to the pen-pals assignment
above, but postcards have illustrations representing
thematic concepts.
47. Posters: create posters to review skills. As a
bonus, many of these posters can often be displayed
during state tests, so if your students create high quality
posters, the posters may be a useful resource during
the test.
48. Questionnaires: create a questionnaire and
survey students to gather an understanding about
thematic issues from a text or social problems for a
speech or presentation.
49. Radio Broadcasts: create a script for a radio
14
missLINGVA / Autumn, 2015
program covering any appropriate field of study.
50. Reader’s Theater: silently act out the events of
a story or text alone or with a group of people while
someone reads the text aloud. Students should be
given time to prepare their acting.
51. Recipes: students can create recipes about how
atoms combine to form molecules (H2O), or how to
create events like the French Revolution or World War
I (add one Arch Duke).
52. Scrapbooks: create a scrapbook of your favorite
poems or important events from a decade.
53. Skits: create a short skit to bring an historical
event to life.
54. Slide Shows: if you have access to enough
computers and a projector, I suggest having students
create PowerPoint presentations. With just a little
instruction, students should be able to create pretty
flashy presentations, and you can combine this project
with a research paper as a culminating activity.
55. Soundtracks: create a soundtrack for a movie
version of a novel or historical or natural event. Use
actual songs or just describe the mood of each song
if you do not know song titles. Explain why you feel
that each song matches the event. A good activity to
review mood.
56. Stamps: students create commemorative
stamps honoring people, depicting elements from the
periodic table, or challenging vocabulary terms.
57. Storyboards: create story boards summarize a
short story or to plan a narrative, movie, or presentation.
58. Tests: write a test to help you review unit goals
and objectives. Questions can be multiple choice,
matching, and true or false. Answer keys should be
provided.
59. Vocabulary Quilts: create quilts with badges
representing the meanings of vocabulary terms.
Badges should have an image and a few words.
60. Websites: design websites that historical figures,
scientists, mathematicians, authors, or characters
from novels would have had. Also, student can create
websites for historical movements, scientific theories,
or literary concepts.
61. Worksheets: create review worksheets.
Worksheets can be applied to any subject and topic of
study.
62. Yearbooks: create yearbooks reviewing the
characters and events from several stories that the class
read or containing information about many important
figures from history.