Creative Drama Lessons
Added: 17 Sep 2014
Contributor:
Scoilnet
Resource type:
Lesson Plan
Long list of class activities sorted by age level covering the equivilant to infants all way up to sixth class or even Secondary. Specific instructions included for each activity. Among activities with instructions are: Emotions Walk; Seasons & Weather; Social Roles.
How it maps to the curriculum
Strand: Drama to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas, leading to understanding
Strand unit: Exploring and making drama
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop awareness of how he/she, as part of a group, helps to maintain focus in the dramatic action
- develop the ability to play in role as an integral part of the action
- develop the instinct for make-believe play into drama
- experience how the use of space and objects can help to create the reality of the make-believe world
Suggestions for use: Practical ideas here - up to te teacher to choose specific activity that might be suitable to class.
Strand: Drama to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas, leading to understanding
Strand unit: Exploring and making drama
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop the ability to help maintain the focus in the dramatic action
- experience how context is built and a drama reality created through the use of space and objects
- use his/her emerging awareness of the differences in people in order to begin to develop an understanding of the relationship between role and character
- use the ability to play at make-believe to enter fully into participation in drama
Suggestions for use: Practical ideas here - up to te teacher to choose specific activity that might be suitable to class.
Strand: Drama to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas, leading to understanding
Strand unit: Exploring and making drama
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of the rules that help maintain focus in the dramatic action
- begin the process of using script as a pre-text
- begin, as a member of a group, to include in drama activity the elements of tension and suspense
- discover how the use of space and objects can help in building the context and in signifying dramatic themes
- enter into the fictional dramatic context with the same spontaneity and freedom that he/she has earlier applied to make-believe play
- understand the relationship between role and character and develop the ability to hold on to either role or character for as long as the dramatic activity requires
Suggestions for use: Practical ideas here - up to te teacher to choose specific activity that might be suitable to class.
Strand: Drama to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas, leading to understanding
Strand unit: Exploring and making drama
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become adept at implementing the ‘playing rules’ that maintain focus in dramatic action
- become comfortable with script and understand the basic processes by which script becomes action
- discover how the use of space and objects helps in building the context and in signifying the drama theme
- extend playing in role and in character to include the ability to accept and maintain a brief that has been decided on by either the teacher, the group or himself/herself
- help to plan dramatic activity to include the particular tension and suspense appropriate to the theme being explored
Suggestions for use: Practical ideas here - up to te teacher to choose specific activity that might be suitable to class.
