Search Over 150,000 Teacher Reviewed Lesson Plans and 75,000 Worksheets
- Grade Range
- Higher Ed
- Rating

Students study how to use video clips to enrich lessons about opera and social issues. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
- Rating

Students infer meaning while viewing a scene of Pinocchio without sound. They write a plot summary of the excerpt of Pinocchio, watch the same scene with sound, and compare their assumptions with the actual performance. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
- Rating

Students participate in a drama character building activity. They view and discuss a video segment, discuss the differences between the two girls in the video, and compare the two characters by saying the same phrases while pretending to be the different characters. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
- Rating

Students compare two characters and role-play how they would perform various actions. They view and discuss a video, list opposite descriptions for the two girls in the video, and role-play the opposites. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
- Rating

Students participate in a variety of activities designed to integrate drama into the classroom. They play charades, mime, practice visualization, active and passive improvisation, develop characters using puppets, etc. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
- Rating

Students participate in activities to introduce them to drama. They mimic facial expressions, pretend objects are something else, and play "Chinese Whispers". They create puppets and theater boxes, masks and costumes, and write scripts to create alternate endings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - Higher Ed
- Rating

Students are introduced to the six elements of drama. While watching a film, they note the examples of the elements along with identifying themes. To end the lesson, they develop scenery for a play at their school with the help of others. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
- Rating

Students are introduced to the concept of improvisation. In groups, they practice improvizing a different scenerio given to them and explore the various ways people communicate with each other. To end the lesson, they reflect on the sessions in their journal. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 11th
- Rating

Students listen to recorded music, and watch a short video to observe how the musical sounds reflects the action in the video. Afterwards, they discuss images that come to mind when listening to certain types of music and the effect that music has upon drama. In groups, students write their own drama that matches given music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 6th
- Rating

Students read both fiction and nonfiction books with desert themes. Then they write desert stories and reports, reviewing texts for information to include in writing. Students also design desert scenes with details and setting elements imagined while reading. Finally, they research specific animals of the desert such as bats, rabbits, snakes, birds, spiders, scorpions, and beetles and draw animals and their desert homes. Full Review »

