Material: 6-7 diverse objects (e.g. a candle, a pen, red chilly powder, a CD, cotton, shoe laces, spoon) and a box.
Preparation: Before class, fill the box with 6-7 random objects. In order to make the activity interesting, the objects should be diverse and unrelated to each other.
Procedure:
Preparation: Before class, fill the box with 6-7 random objects. In order to make the activity interesting, the objects should be diverse and unrelated to each other.
Procedure:
- Divide the class into 4-5 small groups.
- Call one student from each group to take out only one object from the box and place that on a table.
- Then instruct each group to form a story by using their imagination and creativity.
- Ask each group to tell their stories one by one.
* Jaya Arora is an Asstt. Teacher in Sarvodaya Co-education Sec. School, East Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi. jayaarora@rediffmail.com
* Article first published in FORTELL newsletter, April, 2006