Walking Activity
Participants, working on concentration and imitation, imagine walking on different substances. This activity is useful for integration with physical education and dance.
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Walking Through Space Activity
Walking Through Space Activity
This exercise will engage your students' bodies and imaginations! As participants walk around the room, they will explore how different body parts and different environments affect their movements.
Treasures on the Beach Activity
Treasures on the Beach Activity
Participants work with imaginary objects they might find on a beach. This activity makes a great introduction to a seashore story such as Do Not Open by Brinton Turkle.
Pantomimes Activity
Pantomimes Activity
If your students have mastered imitation, they may be ready to try pantomime! With pantomime, there are no props or sounds; participants must tell a story using only the body. In this activity, pantomime is introduced with various prompts. No materials are required.
Object Box Activity
Object Box Activity
If your students enjoy charades, they will love this fun and challenging exercise. Using their five senses, participants enact the qualities of everyday objects. This activity requires one small item for each participant and one large box for the class.
Intro to the Five Senses Lesson
Intro to the Five Senses Lesson
Objective: students demonstrate imagination and experiment with the five senses.Sometimes actors need to convey certain sensory elements (seeing, tasting, hearing, etc). This lesson gives students practice in using and expressing their five senses while imagining typical experience in everyday life (part of the kindergarten objectives). No additional materials are required. This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Kindergarten Curriculum.
The Fire Lesson
The Fire Lesson
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Objective: students demonstrate sensory (touch, taste, smell, sight, sound) recall in a drama. Students identify similarities among art forms.
Students become fire, fight fire, and practice fire prevention all through the safety of drama. This lesson introduces students to sensory (touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound) recall and personification (part of the third grade objectives). The lesson culminates in an enacted story about fire combining fire fighters, fire, and people escaping fire as characters. Students also continue their study of the different styles of narrator voice from the previous lesson (The Three Sillies). We broke this lesson into two parts (over 2 days) to cover all the objectives (both parts included in one PDF document). This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Third Grade Curriculum.
Third Grade Drama Journal: The Fire
To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment. For each lesson in the curriculum, we have created a corresponding journal page for your students. A drama journal allows participants to reflect on their learning and artistic growth (metacognition). It also allows you, the teacher, to see how students are using the drama vocabulary, thinking about big ideas, and perceiving their own strengths and weaknesses. If you use the journal for assessment and would like more assessment tools, visit our Third Grade Curriculum.
Sound Story
Sound Story activity
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This activity works with sounds representing objects from around the room. The participants then create a story with those sounds.I Spy
I Spy (PDF)
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A simple game of I Spy that does not require any additional materials. You can use this activity to develop the participant's five senses and observation skills.Bag of Smells
Bag of Smells (PDF)
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Participants work alone or in groups using their sense of smell. They will expand on the emotions or feelings the smells evoke to create a story. The activity requires a bag filled with aromatic items (examples suggested in document).