Creative Activities for the Secondary Classroom

By Mark Labrow
December 2009
Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781408225578
212 pages
$44.50 Paper Original


Stimulating creativity and motivation in the secondary classroom, this book can be used in any secondary lesson to enhance the creativity of key stage 3 and 4 pupils. Focusing on creativity, confidence, motivation and other core, workplace skills, Mark Labrow provides a wealth of ideas to help teachers bring creativity to their classroom.  The activities in this handy, versatile resource will help students excel at teamwork, be competent in the art of negotiation, have an awareness of themselves and others, be flexible in their thinking, spontaneous in generating unique ideas and imaginative and creative when it comes to dreaming up solutions to everyday problems. All the ideas contained within this book are drawn from the worlds of theatre, drama, improvisation and business leadership. All can be used to breathe life into any lessons, enhancing concentration and supporting the delivery of key subjects in the secondary classroom.

 

Features

 

Key features:

  • Over 100 activities aimed at developing core skills in the secondary classroom
  • Individual, group and whole class activities
  • Ideas can be used to tie in with any lesson or curriculum area, inspiring creativity across secondary education
  • Activities can be easily adapted to suit different lessons and age groups
  • Reduces the time spent planning, and fit easily into a busy timetable

 


Table of Contents

Foreword                                                                            

Introduction                                                                                   

                                              

Chapter 1  Developing a Sense of Team     

Introduction                                                                                   

Name Me Thrice                                                                    

Name Tag                                                                              

Amazing Adjective Action Names                                          

Know Your Place                                                                    

Cat and Mouse                                                                       

Air Ball                                                                                               

Bucket Ball       

5 4 3 2 1                                                     

Triangle Tag                                                                           

Shuffle Monster                                                                     

Fill My Chair                                                                           

Cross-fire                                                                                

Negotiate                                                                               

Rules of Engagement                                                             

Machines                                                                               

Own Goal                                                                               

AgreeDisagree Continuum                                                    

The Flock                                                                                

Balancing the Stage                                                               

Verbal Artist                                                                           

Mirrors                                                                                   

Mirrors  Guess Who?                                                            

Mirrors – Whisper on the Wind                                             

Mirrors – House of Fun                                                          

Appliances                                                                  

Advertise Me                                                              

Contract and Expand                                                  

Invisible Tug of War                                                   

Spell TEAM                                                                 

The Game                                                                  

Trust Walk                                                               

Trust Circle                                                                 

Trust Fall                                                                    

Trust Lift                                                   

Object Minefield                                                        

The Hand of Hypnosis                                                

Chapter Two                        Developing Focus and Concentration                       

Introduction                                                                       

1, 2, 3                                                                           

1 to 20                                                                         

Stop Go                                                                                   

Big Booty                                                                                

Yes Torpedo                                                                           

Rag Tail                                                                                  

Catch it – Drop it                                                                    

Person to Person                                                                    

Fuzzy Duck                                                                              

Zip, Zap, Boing                                                                                   

One Step Back                                                                        

Prisoner                                                                                  

Bang!                                                                          

Sticks                                                                                      

Brain Flop                                                                               

Focus Line Up                                                                         

Ha!                                                                                         

The Impulse to Go                                                      

 

Chapter Three         Developing Spontaneity                        

Introduction                                                                       

What’s in the Box?                                                     

Alliteration                                                                 

Word Association                                                       

Rhyme Time                                                               

Shift                                                                            

What are you Doing?                                                  

What the Audience Want                                          

Sound Ball                                                                  

Arms Through                                                             

Last Letter                                                                  

I am a Sandwich                                                         

Word Up                                                                     

Slide Show                                                             

Translator                                                                               

Foreign Film                                                                           

Dubbing                                                                                  

Fictionary                                                                              

Die                                                                                          

 

Chapter Four           Developing Scenes and Stories                        

Introduction                                                                                   

One Word Story/Conversations                                              

Alphabet                                                                                 

Hot Seating                                                                            

Role on the Wall                                                                    

Still Images                                                                            

The Ripple                                                                              

Sculpting                                                                                

Thought Tracking                                                       

Conscience Alley                                                        

Diary Entry                                                                 

Words of Wisdom                                                      

Cross Fade                                                                  

CharacterBridge                                                        

N.S.E.W.                                                                     

Group Monologue                                                      

Photo Fit                                                                     

Soundscape                                                                

Dreamscape                                                               

Ten–word Cascade                                                     

Hidden Thoughts                                                        

Park Bench                                                                 

A Scene with no ‘S’                                                     

What’s a Question?                                                    

Every Other Question                                                  

Last Letter Scenes                                                       

The Creative Touch                                                                

Freeze Tag                                                                           

Typewriter                                                                              

Sixty-second Trailer                                                                

Rooms                                                           

Emotional Grid                                                                       

Sit, Stand, Lie                                                                         

First Line, Last Line                                                                

Fish Bowl                                                                                

Puppets                                                                                  

Who? What? Where?                                                             

The Walls Have Ears                                                              

New Choice                                                                            

Prompts                                                                                  

Silent Scenes                                                              

All of Me                                                                    

Writer's Raffle                                                             

What’s so Funny?                                                       

Emotional Baggage                                                   

 

Appendices                                     

First and Last Lines

Introduction                

Lines                                                                           

List of Locations   

Introduction                            

Locations                                                                    

 

 

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