Monday, January 12, 2009

Boredom Buster


Have you ever found yourself stuck in a class with a room full of bored students? So, maybe the day's lesson didn't go quite as planned, or you ended way too early. I came across a "Constellation Creation" exercise to help cure these cases of crisis! In this creative activity, each student plots a series of "stars" on a piece of paper and connects them into a constellation. Students then exchange papers and invent a name for the new constellation and a myth that explains its creation. For younger kids, you can have some students draw the starts and constellations on the board, and then the "myth creation" can be done as a group, with you (the teacher) or a helper writing everything down. What fun!

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