• As a teacher, it is important to integrate subject areas and meet a variety of curriculum expectations throughout one lesson. Not only does this make our job as a teacher much simpler because there simply just isn't enough time to address each expectation individually. Plus, integrating subjects makes for enhanced and revitalized lessons that students will enjoy!
• Drama can be a powerful tool to enhance lessons in a variety of subject areas. Drama allows students to experience concepts, rather than simply being taught about them. Instead of being lectured, students create meaning as they investigate and develop meaning themselves through experience.
• Drama can be a powerful tool to enhance lessons in a variety of subject areas. Drama allows students to experience concepts, rather than simply being taught about them. Instead of being lectured, students create meaning as they investigate and develop meaning themselves through experience.
Bloom's Taxonomy: This theory suggests that student learning and experiences should be built upon. First, students acquire knowledge. Next, students participate in activities to comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize and evaluate what they have learned.....
Strategies:
Embodied Scale: Have students line up in a specific order after being given specific instructions (finger length, birthday month, etc.)HOW CAN I USE THIS?
The embodied scale strategy can be used to integrate math with drama as students attempt to line themselves up in terms of height or finger length. Students can use their own personal characteristics to create patterns in their embodied scale.
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When is a Chair Not a Chair: Have students sit on a chair in a circle. Along with your students, act out different movements on the chair as if the chair has turned into a different object (climb a tree, run hurdles)
HOW CAN I USE THIS?
This strategy can be integrated with phys-ed to get students moving and active. Perhaps the chair could represent an object associated with a certain sport or physical skill. Students can practice their ability to perform this skill using when is a chair not a chair - integrating drama with physical education. This activity is also a great way to get students thinking about a certain subject area in a unique way as they imagine the chair being a different object entirely.
I recall using this strategy in session 3 and it stuck with me! I think that young students are so creative. I would love to see what some students would use the chair for! This strategy has demonstrated to me that lack of drama background is not necessary to be an effective drama teacher. Being an effective drama teacher requires creativity and a willingness to imagine.
Hot Seating: Student sits on a chair in front of the class (in role) while the other students ask questions to the character.
I recall using this strategy in session 3 and it stuck with me! I think that young students are so creative. I would love to see what some students would use the chair for! This strategy has demonstrated to me that lack of drama background is not necessary to be an effective drama teacher. Being an effective drama teacher requires creativity and a willingness to imagine.
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This drama strategy can be integrated with health & phys-ed to discuss tough issues that are relevant to students such as making the smart choice when it comes to drugs, alcohol and sex.
This strategy can also be integrated with the language arts curriculum to focus on student's oral communication skills as they ask the character questions or respond to questions
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In Groups of: Have students dance/move around the room independently. Call out a number and a shape and have students form groups of that many students and use their bodies to create that shape
In Groups of: Have students dance/move around the room independently. Call out a number and a shape and have students form groups of that many students and use their bodies to create that shape
HOW CAN I USE THIS?
This strategy can be integrated with math to help students become more familiar with different shapes and their characteristics.
I found this activity to be fun because my ideas for creating a shape were often quite different from the ideas that my peers had. This activity helps students recognize shapes in a variety of sizes and can recognize how shapes can be found in our everyday lives. •••••
HOW CAN I USE THIS?
Ladybug Garden: each student is assigned one of four bugs (ladybug, butterfly, aphid, wasp). Students sit in chairs in a circle. All students have a chair except one. The student who is standing calls out one of the four bugs. All students who have been assigned that bug need to stand up and find a new chair to sit in. This game can be extended so that before students can sit down in their new seat, they must say one fact about their bug.
HOW CAN I USE THIS?This strategy can be changed to accommodate for a variety of subjects. This strategy could be useful for science units relating to insects or other living things. This strategy could also be useful for math subjects! Perhaps each student is assigned to a number and they must find a new spot to sit if the equation called equals their number!
