Can be related to a Social Studies unit on Greek Theatre. PAPER MASKS: A lesson using masks to teach body language.RITUALS:Students create their own magical rituals while exploring the importance of ritual to early (and modern) cultures.THE DISCOVERY OF FIRE:An improvised scene about early humans.Can be usedas a primer to more elaborate Theatre Games, or to support a Social Studiescurriculum about immigrants. GIBBERISH SENTENCES:A pantomime game that explores ways to communicate without words.SOCIAL ROLES:A pantomime guessing game that teaches the idea of social roles within any society, and supports a Social Studies curriculum in world cultures.It is a narrative description of the entire project,which took several months, by which my fourth-graders and I wrote and produceda play about the Oregon Trail. FOURTH-GRADE PLAY:This is notreally a lesson plan.Examines the natureof propaganda, as well as the nature of advertising in today's world. For older Elementary students. OREGON TRAIL PROPAGANDA:Supports a Social Studies unit about the Oregon Trail.Involves improvisation, group planning, and performance. NEWS PLAYS:Supports Social Studies, History, or Current Events curricula.Guides a class to cooperatively write their own play from an existing story. GROUP PLAYWRITING PROJECT: Another big project.Can be used to generate a story for the Group Playwriting Project. Guides a class to cooperatively write their own original story. MUSICAL FREEZE IMPROVS:An improvisation game of creative movement.THE JEFFREY GAME:A movement game of building on one anothers' ideas.THREE LESSONS ABOUT ENERGY: Three lessons designed around a third-grade science unit on energy and the three states of matter.EMOTION WALK:A big lesson about movement, body language, and the ability to consciously control our movements and the impressions we make with them.GUIDED IMAGERY:Sensory awareness, imagination, story-making and concentration all are enhanced by this meditation-like activity.PUPPETS IN THE DRAMA CLASSROOM: A collection of puppet-making and puppetry projects.MIRROR MIRROR:A collection of mirroring exercises.SCULPTURE GALLERY:A game of posing and creating, which allows students to see the creative process from the inside and the outside.BEN FRANKLIN'S INVENTIONS:A physical creativity game.AROUND THE WORLD IN THIRTY MINUTES:An imaginary journey that teaches geography and cultures. RHYME CHARADES: A game of rhymes and pantomime.Teaches analyticalthinking skills and body awareness. SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON: A pantomime project based on the famous story.THANKSGIVING FEAST:A narrative pantomime about using our senses and the First Thanksgiving.COMING TOGETHER:A narrative pantomime about space and visualizing space, and about community and friendships.SEASONS AND WEATHER:An activity that teaches younger children about seasons and weather or that can be used with older students as an improvisation game.(Nothing to do with the Disneyfilm.) For Elementary students. THE LION KING'S COURT:A role-playing game about friendship and animals.NO, YOU CAN'T TAKE ME!:A fun game that requires critical thinking skills.RAINFOREST LESSONS:A small collection of lessons and lesson variations about the rainforest.PAINTING THE MUSIC:A narrative pantomime about emotion and drama in music and paint.PAINTING THE BOX:A narrative pantomime about personal space and visualizing colors.A TREE GROWS:A narrative pantomime about an apple tree growing from a seed.NURSERY RHYME CHARADES:A pantomimeguessing game about nursery rhymes.Listed first here because the ideas vary widely as to appropriate age level. DRAMA FROM PICTURE BOOKS:A collection of ideas for using a picture book to start a Drama activity.Every teacher will have her or his individual slant on these activities. These lessons are presented with fairly specific instructions, for the most part, but should not be understood as carved-in-stone methods. Lesson Plans Sorted by Age Level Most of these lesson plans work with a large age range (with appropriate adjustments in level of sophistication), but I've listed them here in approximate order, from youngest to oldest. To help you find just what you need, I've sorted these lessons in a few different ways: By AGE LEVEL I'm hoping eventually to have a large library of proven lesson plans here. Have a great lesson plan you'd like to share? Send it to me! I'll try it out and post it here. Creative Drama Lesson Plans GET YOUR OWN DOMAIN NAME-JUST LIKE ME!Ĭlassroom Lesson Plans Here are links to some lesson plans I've developed for use in my Creative Drama Classroom (and a few games and lessons from others as well). All of these lessons have been tested and proven successful in the classroom.
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