Elementary Lessons are typical elementary school topics taught with the use of creative dramatics. Lessons integrate dramatic technique into the instruction of the subject.
Lessons were submitted by pre-service Theatre Education university students upon completion of practicum work in the elementary school alongside an elementary teacher. Grade levels and topics vary.
Students will demonstrate their ability to collaborate and understand the water cycle by devising an original water cycle play by asking questions about character and plot.
Read MoreObjective: Students will be able to explore character thoughts and physical choices, as well as their understanding of the language of poetry by acting out/as the character in a poem.
Read MoreStudents will be able to determine the reasons & challenges for the exploration & colonization of North America and the impact of character’s thoughts in a story by making decisions on the exploration of North America as explorers.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate an ability to think critically about challenges they or characters might face through a creative drama experience based on the book Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen Cronin.
Read MoreLesson: Successful Pancakes Authors: Michael Avila & Becca Cardon Standards: TH: Cr3.1.1.bIdentify similarities and differences in sounds and movements in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama) TH: Pr4.1.1.bUse body, face, gestures, and voice to communicate character traits and emotions in a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story ...
Read MoreStudents will be able to portray character through the use of voice, gestures, body movements, and collaborative problem-solving through portraying a character in the story Big Pumpkinby Erica Silverman and coming up with a solution to get the pumpkin off the vine.
Read MoreStudents will be able to describe character differences by analyzing the text of Goldilocks and the Three Bears then designing and drawing the three different bears.
Read MoreStudents will be able to revise and improve a scene by reenacting the three times the wolf tries to blow down a house in the story of the Three Little Pigs.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate their ability to collaborate and act as responsible citizens as they portray a self-created superhero and decide as a group how to critically solve a problem.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate their understanding of design choices that support a story by creating a design idea in groups for this tangled clip and responding to others ideas.
Read MoreStudents will be able to explore characters thoughts, physical choices, and understanding the language of poetry by a acting out/as the character in a poem.
Read MoreStudents will draw on specific details from the text to explore the thoughts and emotions of a character from the book Matilda by Roald Dahl through the use of imagination, movement, and a guided worksheet.
Read MoreStudents will learn how to use their imaginations by creating and exploring the world of the book Matilda by Roald Dahl.
Read MoreStudents will be able to empathize with American slaves and Civil War soldiers through collaborative analysis and creative exploration of historical characters’ living situations in role, thus preparing them to combat discrimination in their own lives.
Read MoreObjective: Students will be able to better understand the culture of a country and develop character through participating in a tour guide’s presentation of France and writing a postcard of what they learned on the tour.
Read MoreUnit Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of storytelling, especially in Native American cultures, by exploring and telling stories in role.
Read MoreObjective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Preamble by creating still images that reflect the goals of the preamble.
Read MoreObjective/I Can Statement: I can identify place values for numbers greater than 100. Students will demonstrate an ability to act out and write out a place value.
Read MoreStudents will be able to interact with others in dramatic play and identify the way that organisms change and meet their needs to survive in their environment by embodying characteristics of various animals and recording how they would react in different environments.
Read MoreStudents 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.
Read MoreStudents will explore physical acting and fables and practice math addition through performing collective versions of Aesops fables.
Read MoreStudents will be able to demonstrate their understanding of Native American culture and stories by performing in a short fable reader’s theater piece.
Read MoreStudents will show their understanding of dramatic plot structure by creating a story map and performing an informal retelling of a story through a flipbook of tableau images.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate their understanding of how water changes state as it moves through the water cycle by acting in role as a scientist and/or water molecule in a dramatization of the journey of a water molecule through locations that hold water (e.g., oceans, atmosphere, rivers, mountains) and the processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate their ability to use voice and sound to retell a story by adapting a nursery rhyme to create a small group puppetry performance.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate their ability to identify and create shapes by acting in role as architects and designers to build quadrilateral-shaped rooms using their bodies.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate increased ability to make physical character choices by exploring in role the characters from the poem “Adventures of Isabel” by Ogden Nash.
Read MoreStudents will correctly use scientific vocabulary associated with the subject of heredity, and use the vocabulary in meaningful ways.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate their ability to write and perform a group script by performing a class devised piece based on Knuffle Bunny Free or The Ox Cart Man.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate their understanding of positive friendship by creating an original performance.
Read MoreStudents will demonstrate their understanding of the relationships between the sun earth and moon by doing a performance as a group in class.
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