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Using drama in the classroom should not be daunting. You do not need to be a drama professional, just be willing to give it a try.
This site has games and activities, unit ideas and hopefully you will find ways to integrate drama into the classroom across the curriculum.
Drama Conventions
Drama Conventions are tools that help you structure, enhance or develop ideas when creating and performing a drama.
Some of them are great and easy to use in the classroom to reinforce concepts or students thinking in a variety of ways.
Working Together Unit
Drama games and activities used to start the year with your students. The ideas in this unit are designed to help students consider their place in the classroom, those around them and the impact and responsibility they have as an individual in the class. Mix 'n' match ideas to suit your needs.
Select a number to select a game.
How to play the game is included.
Learn how to play as you go, or teach each game first.
Divided into levels. Each PowerPoint has 6 or 10 games.
Recent additions
A list of games & activities that will help with introducing the concept of what the Building Blocks of Drama are.
Improve activities
Some improve activities for developing drama skills, language skills or topic ideas.
Here's a few to check out.
Levels 3 to 5
Integrated - Drama, English, Visual Art
Lesson plan, rubrics - unit or just Make it!
Levels 3 to 4
Integrated - Drama, Social Science, Visual Art
Aotearoa Haerenga - New Zealand Adventure
Levels 3 to 5
Drama techniques and conventions
Lesson plan, rubrics, resources for Scary Stories
R.I.C
Research, Interpret, Communicate
Levels 3 to 5
Integrated - Drama, English, Visual Art, Digital Technology
Students select from 50 topic sheets, which have a vocabulary section and possible focus ideas.
Through research they interpret their understanding and communicate it in multiple ways.
25 posters give tips on different communication styles.
Such as, infographics, video recording or model making.
SOLO and AME rubrics covering levels 3 to 5 are available.
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Hopes & Dreams
Drama it.com is about finding ways to use Drama as a learning tool, to enhance the experience of learning for children. Practical ideas to get students moving, while developing and using their language skills alongside each other. As much as possible links are made to the New Zealand Curriculum.
The creation of this site and my hopes and dreams for it are embedded in my enjoyment of Drama and teaching. I am happy to share resources and hope that some of you will too. As well as your experiences. Become a member, it's free!
Check out the shop where there will be some resources for sale to help pay for this site. I am not being paid to do this, it is the love of Drama pushing me.
Have a look around the site. There are bound to be games or activities that you may recognise, or perhaps some you could share to be added.
