Drama Integration Lessons
Choose a subject to find a lesson that integrates drama.
Drama & Math
'Catching Tens and Ones
For example, in this lesson the teacher would:
- Introduce a hand puppet to capture students’ attention and review place-value vocabulary
- Read and discuss key terms together
- Have the puppet ask students to explain each term
- Use student responses to reinforce clear, accurate math definitions
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Why Drama?
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being ."
- Provides a natural way for children to learn and explore.
- Encourages dispositions for teamwork and collaboration.
- Brings attention to the whole person, including physical, emotional, social, and intellectual aspects.
- Develops imagination, creativity, and critical thinking.
- Enhances the ability to express through movement and voice.
- Boosts confidence and builds twenty-first century skills.
Actor's Tools
Actors use their bodies to give life and shape to their characters, to move around the space, and to perform skills including dance choreography, stage combat, tumbling, puppetry, and more. Actors use their faces to express their character’s emotions. Actors' bodies and faces can be used as canvasses for costumes and makeup, or to move props. Used in tableau scenes to create atmosphere, bodies transform the stage into a living thing.
An actor's voice is versatile, expressing the innermost thoughts of their character through monologue or soaring through a gorgeous aria or ballad. Actors can create sound effects and soundscapes through their voices. Used effectively, a whisper or a shout draws in the audience and fully engages their attention.
Imagination unites the body and voice. Powerful imaginations and deep emotional expression can supercede small budgets, creating incredibly moving performances with limited resources. Imagination is an actor's greatest tool.
Drama in the Elementary Classroom
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