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Theater Arts/Creative Movement Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a series of five exercises intended to bring movement, dance, and theater into the classroom. Intended for special ed classes, but appropriate for any grade, learners will pantomime, play pretend, dance, move, and create...
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Tableau

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders view a video from United Streaming and design still frames of important parts of a story.  In this story-telling from different cultures lesson, 2nd graders understand general vocabulary about performing.  Students pose to...
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Theatre Lesson Plan- Tableau (part 2)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore tableaux.  In this social studies and fine arts cross curriculum instructional activity, students work in groups of four to create "frozen" stage pictures (tableaux) representing vocabulary and concepts from a "From Farm...
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Expressing Emotions through Art Lesson 3—Everybody Works Together

For Teachers K - 2nd
See how art can communicate the idea of working together with your class. They will view art and describe space, color, shape, and lines in art. Then they will overlap in their art to show a sense of space. In the end, they will be able...
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Poetry and Visualization

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use visualization techniques when reading poetry.  In this visualization and poetry lesson plan, students work in groups to present a tableau that depicts a word from the poem as classmates guess the word.  Students then read...
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The Looking Glass: Artwork of Robert Harris

For Teachers 6th - 7th
A series of 4 activities foster critical thinking, careful observation, and creative expression with the work of Canadian artist Robert Harris. Learners respond to half a painting and then to the whole picture while listening to a poem;...
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Visual Arts: Art in Public Places

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students create 3 dimensional art. In this sculpture lesson, students collect objects that represent their community's values to include in a 3 dimensional sculpture. Students write a paragraph explaining the chosen theme of their...
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Introduction to Greek Theatre

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create a tableau for a Greek myth.  In this introduction to Greek theatre lesson, students discuss the history of Greek theatre and tableau and complete a handout.  Students work in groups to choose a myth and create a tableau...
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Lesson 11- Chapters 16 and 17

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In this reading comprehension lesson plan, 9th graders reach chapters 16 and 17 and complete reading check questions. Students discuss themes that reflect the...
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Using Tableaux Vivants in Much Ado About Nothing

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners use tableaux vivants to engage in the Much Ado About Nothing playIn this tableax vivants lesson, students read the scen from the play and discuss the key elements in terms of character revelation and action. Learners work in...
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Tableaux of Greek Myth

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students create a tableau to demonstrate their understanding of a Greek myth.  In this Greek myth instructional activity, students create and present a myth to the class.  The members of the class evaluate and note specific details that...
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Finding the Main Idea

For Teachers 3rd
You can mix almost any subject with an arts curriculum. Find out how to use drama to find the main idea of a literary text. You'll read a story, and then learners will make tableaus showing what happened, or what they think will happen...
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Pre-AP Strategies for French Language and Culture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Build vocabulary, fluency and confidence in your French speakers by having them participate in some of these engaging activities. Several suggestions are given, but you will have to design the actual lesson yourself.
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Origami In A Box

For Teachers K - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the assembly of origami folding paper projects. They practice creating different shapes or creatures with the folding of paper. Students are led through a guided practice before...
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Story Structure Slide Show

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Analyzing the sequence of actions in dramatic stories leads to deeper comprehension of story structure. The class identifies the main actions in each section of a story and develops frozen tableau's for the identified actions of the...
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Emotions in Motion

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students use dance as a form of communication. In this meanings of dance lesson, students create dances to communicate a variety of emotions.
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Get to Know - Viewfinders

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students use viewfinders to focus on a specific visual image. In this visual image lesson, students use viewfinders as aids to selecting images and subjects for photography or art in nature.
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History-Causes of WW I

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in a class discussion about what caused World War II. Working in groups, they identify the reasons they believe were most important in starting the war and present their reason in the form of a PowerPoint,...
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Introducing "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." In groups, they "mini-sculpt" four scenes from the play that illustrate the relationships between the four lovers. They create a living statue out of the other...
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New Visions of the World

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars explore the art of Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian as an analysis of abstract painting. In this abstract painting lesson, students explore the painting style of the two artists. Young scholars analyze the use of shape,...

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