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PBS

Pbs Kids: Zoom Playhouse

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This PBS kids site features dozens of short plays that have been performed on the children's television series "Zoom." Includes short scripts for skits which students can perform together, and lists of props to include in the performance.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters: The Great Depression [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students look at photographs (portraits and people, historical events and images depicting strife or struggle, etc.) based around a given time period and contemplate the impact a photograph has on the perception of a...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Cultural Characters [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, students look at photographs (portraits and people, historical events and images depicting strife or struggle, etc.) based around a given time period and contemplate the impact a photograph has on the perception of a...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Food Poisoning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will learn about food poisoning by preparing and performing small skits.
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Virtual Salt

Virtual Salt: Ideas for Enhancing Oral Reports

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful review of important parts of your report and ways to strengthen it. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
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Crayola

Crayola: Castle in the Sun (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan incorporates art, drama, social studies, and language arts. Students use recycled paper and boxes to create a castle, then use it as inspiration to write and act out their own play. (To access this lesson plan, you must...
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iCivics

I Civics: Rule of Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the rule of law and how it protects individual rights and freedoms. By performing short, scripted skits that illustrate what life might be like without the rule of law, students identify six factors that make up the...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Sunflower Biscuit Bones

For Students 1st - 5th
Follow along with this step-by-step recipe to make Skit some homemade dog biscuits!
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Other

Odyssey of the Mind: Second Time Around

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What is the recycling process? Why is it important to recycle? Through the activities on this page, students explore the answers to these questions, encourage others to recycle, present skits on the effects of recycling, and more.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Lesson Plan: Rules and Laws

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that helps learners understand what rules and laws are. Students discuss the books David Goes to School by David Shannon and Rules and Laws by Ann-Marie Kishel, perform skits demonstrating how to follow specific school rules, and...
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Other

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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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Acting Out Fraud

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students act out a skit to learn about different types of fraud.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fred the Fish a Little River Trip

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Little River is home to 47 kinds of fish including the threatened "Blue Shiner" Cyprinella caerulea. These fish depend on the good water quality at Little River. This skit allows students to observe pollution's effects on a small scale...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Makes a Good or Bad Leader?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
After deciding on the criteria of a good leader, young scholars research either a good or bad leader, create a class presentation of that person which focuses on his/her impact on history. Students then write and perform a three to four...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Civil War Personalities [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This instructional activity invites students to derive inspiration from photographs (portraits and people) from the Civil War era. These images serve as impetus to write monologues and create improvisational skits.
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Other

Kiddy House: All About Christmas Kids and Teachers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Check out this awesome secular Christmas resource. This site offers songs, customs, themes and more.
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Read Works

Read Works: Right On

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program called "Do Something About It" designed to teach kids about the Bill of Rights. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Martha Speaks: Skits's Tricks

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Teach Skits the dog tricks while learning vocabulary for working with dogs. Students carry a bone across the screen to lead Skits to his goals.
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Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Holidays: Christmas

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site provides links and ideas for lesson plans about Christmas. Also provides basic information about the history of Christmas traditions in America.
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Curated OER

Weber & Fields: Audio and Pictures

For Students 9th - 10th
Although the site is a commercial site devoted to selling vintage recordings, it has photos of both Lew Fields and Joe Weber, plus Real Audio clips of skits.

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