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Mission to Mars: The Journey Begins

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students take a trip through space. In this space science lesson, students travel on a simulated mission to a space station. Students write a script and perform a play based on the pretend trip.
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Westward Expansion: Links to the Past

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners investigate the impact of Manifest Destiny. In this California history lesson plan, students conduct research on the settlement of the state between 1849 and 1900. Learners use their findings to create scripts that link primary...
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Indian Meets Colonist - Role Play

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners role play as colonists and Indians. They are assigned a specific colony and Indian group, and write a script and then role play in front of their classmates.
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Fifties/Sixties Musical Playwriting Workshop

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students write a coherent script based on characterization, theme, conflict and emotional tone as found in the songs' lyrics and develop an understanding of the enjoyment that comes through discipline and hard work leading toward a...
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Readers' Theatre with African and Chinese Folktales

For Teachers 4th
Students investigate genre of folklore, specifically African and Chinese folktales, and script and perform folktales with examples from The Magic Brocade and Fire on the Mountain. Seven lessons on one page.
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Shakespeare in Parts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine primary source manuscript fragments, discuss differences in performing a play without the entire script, and perform a scene from Twelfth Night with no preparation.
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Midsummer Night's Dream Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the Internet to research one of Shakespeare's plays. They read two myths and create their own script for the play. They also examine the history of Ancient Greece.
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The Water of Life

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils listen to the fairy tale "The Water of Life" by the Brothers Grimm. Using the text, they answer comprehension questions and retell the story to their classmates. They identify the plot and the main characters and role play...
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Shadow Puppetry in South India

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students read a variety of literature from India, including folktales and fables. They then select a scene or story to script, work together to design and craft shadow puppets of characters and scenery, narrate a story, manipulate the...
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Conservation Connection

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students work in groups to create a script for a one minute commercial on how to conserve our reusable energy sources. When the scripts are written, explain to the students that a story board is similar to a cartoon.
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Constructions of Isosceles and Equilateral Triangles

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore the difference between drawing and constructing a triangle utilizing The Geometer's Sketchpad on the computer. They create, develop and script constructions for both isosceles and equilateral triangles. Each student has...
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Weekly Current Events Podcasts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a weekly current event podcast. In this podcast lesson, students find current events for the week and write out a script to explain this event. They add in music and sound effects and record their final product. 
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Conspiracy after the Storm: Editing Dual Murder Plots in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students edit scenes from Shakespeare's The Tempest in documentary fashion and perform their edited scripts. In this play analysis lesson, students read through Act 2 and 3 and discuss how and why to cut lines in a play. Students create...
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In Search of Caesar's Ghost

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers collaborate in small groups to choose a scene that they write in place of a scene in Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar". In this dramatic expression lesson, their scripts include roles, lines and stage directions. Students...
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Photography for Language Use and Awareness

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make storyboards and take photographs for slides to illustrate stories or "how to" demonstrations and write and recorded scripts to accompany their slides.
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Around the Water Cycle--A Reader's Theater

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils read aloud a play script in a group to research the water cycle. They take the parts of raindrops. The amount of raindrops can be adjusted to fit group size.
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Model Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students, five of the "best" readers in the class, get a script and read over their part of the lesson before they begin to "teach" the class.
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Narrative History - Hypertext Dialogues

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students create scripts about California settlers. The document reflects the settlers' fears, expectations, and realizations.
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The Environments of Big Sur -- Which Do We Protect?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the geological, climatic, and biological features of Big Sur. They watch a video, conduct Internet research, and create a script and images in the form of an outline in a simulation of an environmental group.
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Lesson 11- Vaudeville: On With the Show

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils create comedy skits based on family or domestic situation. They observe their own families, write a script for a vaudeville type skit, and perform the skit.
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Writing a Play about Immigrant Life in America

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Young scholars research why immigrants came to America and the processes involved in the settlement. They write a script for a short play explaining the causes for immigration and situations that immigrants found themselves in.
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Dr Who: Acronyms

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore abbreviations and acronyms. Students examine the difference between the two types. Students complete a worksheet, sorting words. They write a creative script containing abbreviations and acronyms.
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Introduction to Types of Ethical Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine ethical systems by discussing an ethical dilemma and illustrating different types of ethical decisions by role playing a written script and as a class discovering the type of thinking demonstrated.
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Chemistry - Atoms and Elements

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students perform varied activities as part of a layered curriculum unit: They write and perform a skit that outlines the evolution of the model of the atom. The script is submitted to the teacher for review before performance.

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