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. Create a comic book.
Choose your favorite chapter from the book and create a short comic book version of it. Make sure to include illustrations, dialogue and important information from the story. Bring in your creations and share them with classmates.
2. Make your own alien.
There are many aliens in the book. Based on your own ideas about aliens, create a model of your own alien creation. Use items around the house, with your parents' permission, of course, in order to create your 3-D model...
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