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Creative Drama & Theatre Education Resource Site
Contains a large amount of information on creative drama including classroom ideas, theater games, plays for performance, and more.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, students will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, middle schoolers will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dramatic Writing With Ansel Adams [Pdf]
Using Ansel Adams photographs for inspiration, young scholars will explore creative writing, directing, and acting.
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Children's Theatre: Creative Drama
A playwright's website that explores various aspects of children's theatre. Includes definitions, lesson plans, books and plenty of ideas.
British Library
British Library: Robert Browning: Creative Writing
Looking at three of Robert Browning's poems, students will be encouraged to think critically and create compositions that explore complex themes.[PDF]
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Sage Publishing: Play and the Learning Environment
Play is an important vehicle for developing self-regulation as well as promoting language, cognition, and social competence. This chapter discusses the definition of the physical environment and play, the defining characteristics of...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: Imagine! Introducing Your Child to the Arts
Creative play with a purpose! Information, from the National Endowment for the Arts, to encourage and guide your children in understanding and appreciating the arts. Learn how to engage them in arts of all sorts: writing, dance, music,...
Can Teach
Can Teach : Drama Ideas
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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Theatre Arts Lesson Plans
This professional actor provides lesson plans for theater arts classes.
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Articles About Storytelling
This site contains links to five articles about storytelling by Heather Forest. Articles include the following: "Crafting Personal Vision in Telling Folktales," "The Voice as an Instrument," "Copyright and Fair Use of Published...
George Eastman Museum
George Eastman House: Discovery Room Tips: Think Like a Filmmaker [Pdf]
Learn about the roles of director, cinematographer, and screenwriter in the filmmaking process. Includes templates for making film-production props--director's bullhorn, cinematographer's storyboards, and a scene clapper--so that you can...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Acting Out the Adverb, but What About the Adjective? [Pdf]
In this lesson, young scholars will compare and contrast adjectives and adverbs. They will explore how acting out an adverb is easier than an adjective. While they can reach for the adjective, they are often difficult to physically...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Be One With the Water [Pdf]
Fourth graders will explore states of matter and the water cycle by bringing water to life with their bodies. By enacting the changes that water molecules experience, 4th graders will learn scientific information kinesthetically.
PBS
Pbs: Play Pretend Post Office (Make a Post Office Lesson Plan)
Instructions for creating a make-believe post office.