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- Kindergarten
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Students explore issues concerning physical disabilities in an entertaining format of a puppet show. They interact and participate when asked to during the show, discuss what they learned from the puppet show. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students create a puppet show for a play. They choose the puppet characters they wish to enact the play and develop scenarios. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students visit given web-sites to find out what puppets look like in different countries and then make a puppet and write a play for it. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students read the book, All the World Loves a Puppet and create puppet shows. Their stories include beginnings, middles, and ends that present problems and solutions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 11th
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Students create Bunraku puppets out of reused/recycled items in this introductory lesson about puppetry. Emphasis is placed on individual work with student-led feedback about each puppet. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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The student will create a scrap puppet for use in a skit/play/show and will incorporate outside ideas/suggestions with his/her own ideas. They collect and organize information from a Web site and will evaluate a personal performance in order to find improvements. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students create and perform a shadow puppet play. They use the principles of design to individually make a shadow puppet with at least one moving part then in small groups they create a story in which all group members' puppets have a role. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students create "paper bag puppets" using basic art supplies, construction paper, and their imagination in this awesome early-elementary Art activity. The lesson includes a resource link and suggests teaching a short history of puppetry before implementation. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of creating a hand puppet centered around the theme of sports. The lesson includes the steps needed to create the puppets and then students could discuss their favorite sports. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students make paper bag puppets. They use the puppets as a story teller and reader. Students use the puppets to ask questions during and after reading. They assemble their own puppet. Students use the puppets to introduce new themes, such as letter of the alphet (A is for Alligator), numbers, colors, science concepts. Full Review »

