Drama Resource

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Another great site that I discovered is called Drama Resource. This website provides a variety of drama games and strategies with clear descriptions and supplementary videos. I also really appreciate how this site provides cross-curricular ideas and even supplies lesson plans and ideas.

Drama & Science Lesson Plan

For my drama presentation, my group and I focused on incorporating drama into a science lesson. We focused our series of lessons on the digestive system (which is a grade 5 strand of science per the Ontario Science Curriculum). I believe that in the teaching community, sharing is caring, thus I wanted to share our lesson ideas here on my blog for others to incorporate into their classrooms if they so choose. For our lesson, we used the strategies of connection web, guided visualization, choral reading, machine, and news reporter. To learn more about those strategies and how you can incorporate them into the science curriculum, feel free to explore the following document.

Drama-Based Instruction

When doing research for our drama presentation, my group came across this site, which I think is a very valuable resource. Drama-based instruction is a site that offers a multitude of teaching strategies for incorporating drama into your ever day classroom, including lesson plans, video examples, and clear descriptions of a variety of drama strategies. I found this site useful because it helped my group understand the drama strategies that we chose to use for our demonstration, but I think it will also be useful beyond that because there is such an extensive list of strategies. The site describes 150+ strategies and the teaching-strategies section is separated into four sub-sections: activating dialogue strategies, image work strategies, role work strategies, and theatre games. You can even find strategies based on your class size, available space, and other context-specific requirements. In addition to the list of strategies, there is also 150+ lesson plans that incorporate drama into other subjects. This site is extremely easy to navigate and it is incredibly helpful, thus if you are a teacher looking for some inspiration for how you can use drama in your classroom, I highly suggest pursuing through this site.