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 A Few Outdoor Writing Activities

9/25/2012

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Compiled from an AWITS Writers brainstorm
1. Activity: Human Camera 
(big trusting exercise, set a lot of guidelines for respectful participation)
  • Give students  a list of things - like a scavenger hunt (e.g. something green, something soft)
  • Kids partner up - position kid in front of sometime outside, kids has eyes closed
  • Tap kid, kid opens eyes, takes in their view, then closes eyes. Kids take turns being the camera.
  • Kids write from what they observed. Good material for Haiku writing!
2. Activity: Scavenger hunt - 
  • Send students outside with a paper bag and  a list that engages their senses as well as gives them opportunities for discernment (e.g.  find something prickly, find something surprising...). 
  • If  items won't fit in the bag, ask them to notice and remember for sharing later. 
  • Students bring the bag back inside and share what they found with a partner using both their "naked eye" and their "imaginative eye"--figurative devices 
  • They then write a line of poetry about each item--or pick one item to write a poem.  


3. Activity: Paper towel roll - watching a part of the forest
Pair up - one observer observes and dictates, other is a reporter and writes
Use material for further writing, poem writing.





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