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Using Drama in Careers Lesson
Using Drama in Careers Lesson Objective: students identify how drama is used in careers. What a wonderful lesson for career day or as you near the end of the school year. Students reflect on all of the skills and tools they have learned in drama and imagine how they might be used in a future … Read more
August 23, 2016
Ferdinand Lesson
Ferdinand Lesson: Fantasy & Real Life Objective: students compare characters and situations in drama to situations and people in real life. Bullying and being misunderstood are topics explored through the story “Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf. This lesson in our third grade sequence continues the comparison of people and situations in drama to real life (part of … Read more
The First Woodpecker Lesson (Part 2)
The First Woodpecker Lesson (Part 2): Transformation Objective: Students compare characters and situations in drama to situations and people in real life. Students combine the primary drama tools to create character and setting. Students demonstrate transformation in a drama. Transformation is key to the message of the story and understanding of societal values of the … Read more
Little Breeze – Great Storm Lesson
Little Breeze – Great Storm Lesson: Building Schema Objective: Students use personification in a drama. Students compare characters and situations in a drama to situations and people in real life. Where does the wind come from? How are great storms made? This is a wonderful science lesson but also could be used as a character … Read more
August 22, 2016
Scarf Tale Lesson
Scarf Tale Lesson: Story Elements Objective: students adapt and or revise story details. Students combine the primary tools (body, mind, voice) and a secondary tool (a prop) to create a drama. Students have fun with a scarf, passing it and transforming it. They participate in a story about a crying baby and then, in teams, adapt … Read more
August 10, 2016
Adaptation of Living Things Lesson
Adaptation of Living Things Lesson Objective: students adapt and/or revise story details. Animal characters make up the focus for “Greysum Opossum’s Way” (included). Students adapt the story by putting in their own ideas as they work in a team (part of the third grade objectives). This lesson integrates well with teaching adaptation or habitats in science. … Read more
Lon Po Po Lesson
Lon Po Po Lesson: Conflict Objective: students identify conflict, problem and resolution in a story while problem solving. Lon Po Po by Ed Young is a Little Red Riding Hood story from another culture and is beloved by children who play this as a full class drama. The words Lon and Po Po mean wolf … Read more
August 4, 2016
Paper Bag Princess Lesson
Paper Bag Princess Lesson: Story Elements Objective: students identify the story elements in a variety of dramatic stories. Who doesn’t love stories about princesses and princes with a dragon thrown in too? This is an old story with a new twist: the princess saves the day! This lesson focuses on the story elements of character, … Read more
July 10, 2016
Planning and Practicing: Why Frog and Snake Don’t Play Together Anymore
Frog & Snake Lesson: Reviewing the Three Tools & Three P’s Objective: students combine the tools of drama (body, mind, voice) with the processes of planning and practicing to create a drama. Students play animal characters and speak dialogue in this tale of friendship and prejudice. Students develop more experience in planning, practicing and presenting … Read more
July 8, 2016
Hare & the Tortoise Lesson
Hare & the Tortoise Lesson: Animal Characters & Movement Choices Objective: students use movement to create characters and the illusion of traveling through space while standing in one spot. This lesson demonstrates the difference between locomotor and nonlocomotor movement and how they are used in drama (part of the second grade objectives). Drama relies on controlled … Read more
July 4, 2016
The Vegetable Garden Lesson
The Vegetable Garden Lesson: Creating Characters Objective: students compare actions of characters to real life behaviors and demonstrate how the body and voice are used to create character. A vegetable garden and a vineyard vie for attention in this story of a farmer who forgets the produce that has supported him for so long. This … Read more
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June 29, 2016
Mindless Woman Lesson
Mindless Woman Lesson: Communicating with the Body Objective: students demonstrate how the drama tools are used to create a story. Based on an old Chinese folk tale, this lesson has groups working to create settings for a very humorous story (part of the first grade objectives). This is a full class drama and you are the … Read more
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June 28, 2016
Early American Life Lesson
Early American Life Lesson: Creating Action Objective: students use the body to imitate character actions and create objects in a setting; they also identify problems and solutions in a story. Students reenact the lives of early American settlers, a great connection to Social Studies (early American life). This lesson also uses the children’s book The … Read more
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Emotions Lesson
Emotions Lesson Objective: students identify and imitate simple emotions. Students identify and imitate simple emotions in beginning simple exercises. Next, they create a scene, using the body, to communicate an emotion through imitative action (part of the first grade objectives). Before working with the children, review our side coaching tips to encourage them to “be real.” … Read more
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June 26, 2016
The Puddle Lesson
The Puddle Lesson: More Story Elements Objective: students discuss the elements needed to make a story. Students work with physical shapes as they play a puddle who wants to be round like the sun. The students are asked to identify the character, plot, conflict, setting and message of the story (part of the first grade objectives). … Read more
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