Storytelling Together
How can using our imagination collaboratively build our relationships with one another?
During this lesson students will be given a sentence starter. They will then go back and forth building their story together, each person taking turns to add to the story.
Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to collaboratively create a story based on a sentence starter or story prompt.
Materials
- This activity was inspired by Scientific American.
Preview Lesson Plan
Introduction:
5 minutes
- Say: Today we are going to be focusing on how we can use our imagination with someone else through storytelling. You will be paired with someone in this class to create a story together, switching back and forth between storytellers. You will need to use the details that your partner added to the story to continue the story.
- You may use one of the prompts below, create your own prompt, or allow students to come up with a prompt.
- It all started on the first day I became an astronaut…
- Tell a story about a group of children that encounter a monster.
- Tell a story about someone with the ability to enter other people’s dreams.
- Say: Once you know your prompt and your partner, decide who will be Partner A and who will be Partner B. Partner A will begin telling the story. After 30 seconds, Partner A will stop telling the story and Partner B will pick up the story where it left off, using the same details. This activity will require you to practice listening deeply to one another!
- Give students time to determine who will decide who will be Partner A and who will be Partner B.
