Sea Creatures and Prepositions

And we are all still teaching online...

My teens group is studying sea creatures and some prepositions of place: next to, on, under, between. Our online classes have to be very visual so, besides the slides, I decided to make these paper puppets to help them understand these different prepositions. These were also made by drawing on the inside of boxes and after I cut them out, I glued them onto chopsticks. Students also made their own and we placed the animals in different situations and asked each other questions like: Where is the octopus? and the answer could be: It's next to the seaweed or It's between the starfish and the dophin.

It's good to know that I'll be able to use these when we all go back to our classrooms.

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