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The Alan Review: Exploring Prejudice in Young Adult Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the power of role-playing to help students experience Mildred Taylor's powerful novel "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry." This lesson plan includes a variety of scenarios and suggestions for use with a group.
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Can Teach

Can Teach : Drama Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan use dramatic games and improvisations to liven up the classroom and help students communicate better. These lesson plans can be adapted to a number of curricular subjects. Suited for elementary students.
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Canadian Improv Games

For Teachers 9th - 10th
If you have or want to start an improvisation group at your school this would be an amazing opportunity for you to check out. Open only to schools in Canada, the Canadian Improv Games is a friendly competition where high school students...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants: Jack Spends His Pay

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will create and solve word problems involving money (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals), and develop a script for a short scene and perform it using the elements of performance....
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: This Land Is My Land, This Land Is Your Land [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
In this activity, 3rd graders take on the roles of characters in a drama centered on preserving the environment. Students will play different living things that inhabit a forest. They will improvise dialogue and analyze environmental...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Rocky Movement [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd
In this lesson, 3rd graders will investigate the three types of rocks and personify the formation of each type with movement.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this lesson, students use photos that relate to a social studies concept (i.e., country of study, historical person, natural disaster, geographical landmark, religion, or governmental strife) as a springboard to write a first-person...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Proficient Puppeteers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students create puppets for the characters in a Reader's Theater script called 'Georgia State Animals & Plants: Habitats and Adaptations.' The puppets showcase the adaptations for each plant or animal. Students then...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: The Civil War [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
In this instructional activity, 5th graders explore the concept of cause and effect in the context of the Civil War and work in groups to write and deliver speeches articulating a point of view for one of the War's causes: tariffs,...