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Habitats, Needs of Living Things, and Body Details Lesson

Habitats, Needs of Living Things, and Body Details Lesson

How can we keep students fully engaged through complex subject matter? Ask them to engage their bodies as well as their minds! This exciting lesson integrates Drama with Language Arts and Science by asking students to create habitats and settings using only their bodies. It also includes a full story about a mischievous young bear to give students an opportunity to act it out and apply their knowledge. Ideal for grades 1-3, this lesson helps students work on concentration, transformation, and collaboration skills in drama.

NOTE: Habitats, Needs of Living Things, and Body Details is part of our unique library of integrated lessons. These specialized lessons simultaneously teach concepts and skills related to drama and the other subject(s) targeted in the lesson. In addition, these lessons are designed to meet National Standards for Drama and for the integrated subject(s), so you can reach learning goals across multiple disciplines.

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Poem

 

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Poem 

Students will love this globe-trotting poem, packed with action and humor! The narrator wants to run away but can’t decide where to go: Tokyo or the Midwest? Timbuktu or the Florida Keys? In this exciting adventure for grades 2-6, students could practice transformation, narrator skills, body objects, and settings. Additionally, students could practice geography skills by locating places on the map. We have also included some recommended step-by-step delivery ideas to help you turn the poem into a full lesson.

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Journal: Grades 2-3

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Journal: Grades 4-6

To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment. For each poem, 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.

It Was A Silly Afternoon Poem

It Was A Silly Afternoon Poem

A raccoon dressed to the nines? An armadillo in a pillow hat? A whooping crane with a cane?—What could possibly be going on? This poem is a great way for students in grades 2-6 to practice their transformation skills. In addition, you may integrate Language Arts learning by discussing the use of personification in the poem. We have also included some recommended step-by-step delivery ideas to help you turn the poem into a full lesson. 

It Was A Silly Afternoon Journal: Grades 2-4

It Was A Silly Afternoon Journal: Grades 5-6

To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment. For each poem, 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.

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Poem

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Poem

Students will love this globe-trotting poem, packed with action and humor! The narrator wants to run away but can’t decide where to go: Tokyo or the Midwest? Timbuktu or the Florida Keys? In this exciting adventure for grades 2-6, students could practice transformation, narrator skills, body objects, and settings. Additionally, students could practice geography skills by locating places on the map. We have also included some recommended step-by-step delivery ideas to help you turn the poem into a full lesson.

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Journal: Grades 2-3

An Absolutely Gorgeous Day Journal: Grades 4-6

To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment. For each poem, 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.

 

A Shark’s Tale Poem

A Shark's Tale Poem

Have you ever met a shark so charming and sincere? Great for grades 3-7, this suspenseful poem tells the tale of a cunning shark who tricks an unsuspecting swimmer. Students will have opportunities to practice emotions, transformation, narrator skills, and conflict/resolution. We have also included some recommended step-by-step delivery ideas to help you turn the poem into a full lesson.

A Shark's Tale Journal (Grades 3-5)

A Shark's Tale Journal (Grades 6-7)

To maximize student achievement, download this drama journal for students to use as reflection or formative assessment. For each poem, 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.

Adaptation of Living Things Lesson

Adaptation of Living Things Lesson 

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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. If students need a refresher on playing animal characters upright, review the Hare and Tortoise Lesson from our Introductory Lesson series. This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Third Grade Curriculum.

Third Grade Drama Journal: Adaptation of Living Things

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. 

Animal Treasure Lesson

Animal Treasure Lesson

Animal Treasure Lesson: Emotions

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Objective: students imitate simple emotions through physical movement, facial expression, and posture.

Students practice imitating emotions using their bodies while playing animal characters (part of the 2nd grade objectives). First read the included story "Animal Treasure or Everybody Gets Tricked" to students and then let them choose emotions to communicate. We suggest beginning with the warm-up activity Pass the Face with the students before starting this lesson. This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Second Grade Curriculum.

Second Grade Drama Journal: Animal Treasure

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 Second Grade Curriculum. 

Turtle who Lived by the Pond Lesson

Turtle who Lived by the Pond Lesson

Turtle who Lived by the Pond Lesson:  Fantasy and Reality

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Objective: students use transformation and delineate reality from fantasy in a drama.

Which part is fantasy and which is reality in the story of the turtle who wants to be something he is not? Turtle learns a very important lesson along the way in this story, “The Turtle Who Lived by the Pond.” From plot twist to plot twist, students plan and play a series of transformations into objects and animals. Download the story to complete the materials for the lesson. Review our techniques for viewing and sharing student work before you have the students present their stories to others. This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Second Grade Curriculum.

Second Grade Drama Journal: The Turtle Who Lived by the Pond

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 Second Grade Curriculum. 

Zookeeper Solves a Problem Lesson

Zookeeper Solves a Problem Lesson

Zookeeper Solves a Problem Lesson: Using Voice

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Objective: students use vocal and non-vocal sounds to create a drama.

Students revel in making sounds with their voice, body, and other objects. This lesson gives them the opportunity to experiment with sound and the five senses to create a drama (part of the second grade objectives). Beginning with the Vocal Symphony exercise and concluding with the story The Zookeeper Solves a Problem, students have fun creating animals of all types. Download the activity and the story to complete your lesson materials. We have also had success applying this lesson to the books Down by the Cool of the Pool by Tony Mitton and Clams Can’t Sing by James Stevenson. This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Second Grade Curriculum.

Second Grade Drama Journal: Zookeeper Solves a Problem

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 Second Grade Curriculum.