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Reader's Theatre for 1st Grade

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in reader's theatre. In this drama lesson, 1st graders choose a Scholastic play and use stick masks to perform the story. The students are videotaped and analyze their performance
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Honesty

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students listen to the story, "The Mangoes." They answer and discuss a given set of questions then volunteer to share an experience of when they told the truth and what it felt like. Students perform a skit to reinact the story, "The...
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Sharing, caring

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students hear the story, "The Sand Castle" and answer a given set of questions. They discuss their answers and then perform a skit of the story, "The Sand Castle." Students practice and sing a new song about sharing and caring.
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Common Theme in Folktale: 900 Versions of Cinderella

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine various stories that have a Cinderella theme.  In this Language Arts lesson, 7th graders compare and contrast stories.  Students write various journal assignments in regards to the stories. 
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Incorporating Reading Comprehension Using Cinderella Stories from Different Lands

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate Cinderella tales from different lands to discover their commonalities in this unit. They perform their favorite Cinderella story.
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Current Events Activity

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students investigate world news and create a performance from their research.  In this current events lesson, students identify major political or news stories in the media and create a performance based on a character they will...
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Red Ribbon Week

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students perform monologues about bullying and cyber-bullying. In this bullying and drama lesson, students write scenes while improvising before word processing the scenes. They put their work in order to present a show about bullying...
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The Odyssey

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students write a dramatic scene based on The Odyssey and perform it for the class. In this living literature lesson, students work in small groups to discuss the way the characters look, act, and sound. They then choose scenery and...
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Coyote and Anansi

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the structure of folktales. In this coyote and Anansi lesson, students discuss the attributes of folktales as they read versions of tales featuring coyote and Anansi. Students collaborate to write and perform their own...
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Using Words to Work Things Out

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore appropriate ways to communicate feelings.  In this character development lesson, students listen to Hands are not for Hitting and several other books about expressing emotions appropriately.  Students observe...
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Quick As A Cricket

For Teachers K - 1st
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of reading a story and then they reenact it while performing a pantomime. They answer questions related to the reading and then children move throughout the class imitating...
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Mountain Creation: A Drama Exploration

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore mountain formation. In this cross curriculum earth science and legend writing lesson plan, students listen to the poem "The Way to make Perfect Mountains" by Byrd Baylor and identify examples of vivid language used....
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Storytelling Model

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine how to model story telling for their classes. They investigate how to learn, rehearse and share stories.
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Language Arts Written Drama Project: Creationism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create and perform science fiction drams based upon their knowledge of the solar system. For this solar system lesson students work in cooperative groups to create a short play and will also score the play.
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FAMOUS PAINTING

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students provide a brief history of Van Gogh and of the artists working at the same time. They use images of the furniture copied from the painting to review vocabulary items, color, size, etc. They draw and color a rendition of their...
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The Amazon Rain Forest

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders perform a play about the Amazon Rain Forest. They practice assigned parts and sing a song about the Rain Forest. They create costumes for the characters and discuss the role each character plays. They perform the play...
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Classical Greek Sculpture

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners create a sculpture of one of their classmates heads in the manner of the Greek sculptures. They apply the correct terminology into making their sculpture. They evaluate their own project and focus on areas to improve on.
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Showman Webelos Activity Workbook

For Students 4th - 5th
In this Webelo activity worksheet, students decide which activities they would like to complete in order to earn a badge in puppetry or music. They check off which activities they choose and their leader rates their abilities.
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Dance is B.E.S.T.: Time

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students demonstrate dance activities and rhythm activities to whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes. They clap and move to notes individually and in 16 count metric phrases. As they create different 16 count metric phrases and...
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Fun Fall Leaves

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners make painted hand prints to cut out and use as fall leaves.
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Brussel Sprout Bunny

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create miniature "brussel sprout" bunnies using clay pots, brussel sprouts, mini poms, Easter grass, and fake silk flowers. This lesson is intended for the upper-elementary classroom during the Spring season (March or earl April...
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Hands That Touch The Heart

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create Valentine's Day hearts in this variation of a classic activity for the early-elementary classroom. The "hands that touch the heart" is a great gift that can be given to family, friends, or fellow students. A materials...
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Opera

For Students 5th - 9th
In this history of opera worksheet, students explore and research what an opera is and then answer four questions regarding the history of opera in complete sentences.
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Theatre: Persuasive Explorers

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners act like a famous explorer. In this explorer lesson, students research an explorer and act out persuasive arguments in which that explorer might be involved.