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Hello Travus,
This is probably too late to be useful, but just in case you're still working on ideas...
In my classes I would often have a 'Who's who in [insert subject here]' series of student presentations - one, 10-minute presentation per week. These were typically on 'Wacky Wednesdays' and students were encouraged to bring as much creativity to the presentation as possible! Samples: Students dressed up like Einstein and talked in a German accent; one girl set up a dinner table and gave a monologue in an evening gown entitled, 'My Dinner with Tesla'; they ran game shows; created music videos; performed rap; demonstrated experiments; conducted mock interviews and more They needed to create a biography to hand out to the class, which is what I graded for this assignment. These soon became highlights of the week and gave students a chance to really use their talents.
On some occasions I would act out scenes such as, 'Gregor Mendel - party animal' where I demonstrated the scope and dedication to control the pollination of thousands of pea plants; 'Watson and Crick - brilliant jerks' - alluding to their treatment of Rosalind Franklin and some of their later behaviours as celebrity scientists; put on a wig and introduced Newton's laws of motion in an English accent; Stood on a desk and dropped indoor shotputs as a re-enactment of the apocryphal cannonball experiments of Galileo...
You can have a lot of fun with this. I know I did. And I think the out-of-the-ordinary things you do in class are much more memorable than the mundane.
Hope this helps,
Gabe
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