By: Soren Barker, Jean Yellowhorse, Daniel Fifield
Unit Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding and mastery of the basics of electricity while relying on intuition, curiosity, and critical inquiry, making strong choices to effectively convey meaning and, developing personal processes and skills for a performance or design to create and convey meaning through the presentation of moving images that embody concept of electrical current that we discussed in the unit.
For grade level: 5th Grade
Prior Experience: The kids have some experience with a drama specialist. They are very high-energy. A couple of the students have a hard time working together, so we’ll be careful of that.
Utah Core/ National Theatre Standards
Standard 4 Students will understand features of static and current electricity.
Objective 1 Describe the behavior of static electricity as observed in nature and everyday occurrences.
Objective 2 Analyze the behavior of current electricity.
TH:Cr3.1.5.c Participate in defined responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work informally to an audience.
THPr4.1.5.b Use physical choices to create meaning in a drama/theatre work.
ThCn10.1.5.a explain how drama/theatre connects oneself to a community or culture.
Big Ideas: Electricity is all around us. We are driven by attractions and repulsions.
Essential Questions: Why is electricity important to understand? How can we use what we know about electricity to help the WORLD?! What does electricity have to do with Drama work?!
Key Knowledge and Skills: Students will be able to understand features of static and current electricity. Describe the behavior of static electricity as observed in nature and everyday occurrences. Analyze the behavior of current electricity. Participate in defined responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work informally to an audience. Use physical choices to create meaning in a drama/theatre work. Explain how drama/theatre connects oneself to w community or culture.
Authentic Performance Tasks: Students will be asked to creating an image or work of art that shows a big idea that we discussed in the unit.
Lessons:
Lesson #1: Intro to Unit
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of Vocabulary and historical/scientific information by teaching each other, asking questions and answering simple assessment.
Lesson #2: Basics of Electricity
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of basic circuits and electricity by creating a SIMPLE circuit with their bodies.
Lesson #3: Magnets
Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of magnets and the dramatic concept of compel and repel- by participating in a pop quiz, and through actively engaging in activities.
Lesson #4: Static Electricity
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of static electricity and the concept of objective/tactic by filling out a work sheet and by discussing the role objective and tactics had in their work today.
Lesson #5: Basic Circuits
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of circuits and the importance of focusing and reacting by participating in activities and filling out the worksheets.
Lesson #6: Review of everything taught
Students will demonstrate their ability to synthesize all that they’ve learned by completing the review.
Lesson #7: Creating Circuits with bodies (assessment)
Students will demonstrate a mastery of terms and features of static and current electricity by describing the behavior of static electricity as observed in nature and everyday occurrences and analyze the behavior of current electricity while participating in defined responsibilities required to present a drama/theatre work informally to an audience, using physical choices to create meaning in a drama/theatre work by explain how drama/theatre connects oneself to a community or culture and doing a concept assessment.
