Students take a strip of construction paper and fold one-third over to cover the middle third of the strip. Then the students have to walk around and try and guess who has which object. A fun, open-ended exercise in gathering and organizing facts, just like a scientist does. Small groups of students are given bags containing several dozen buttons. Then using methods analogous to those used by archaeologists to make sense of their findings, the students have to sort the buttons into sets by their similar and contrasting characteristics.
Students have to organize a timeline of events.
Students could be given strips of construction paper and directed to write out some of the different events of the book, one to a strip. Then they could staple the links into chains in the proper sequence order. Depending on age group and the complexity of the sequence, students could discuss the sequence or help each other in small groups to ensure events are properly ordered. Archaeology on a small, and edible, scale. Bake a three layer cake in rectanglar pans.