With so much to cram into our daily classroom timetables, it is often difficult to set aside a definite time to formally teach drama skills, find a play script, assign roles, record and perform. With a tiny creativity, however, it is possible to couple drama play into the other areas of the curriculum. You can reinforce studying in many subjects straight through focused drama part plans.
Math
Start with Drama Skills
If we were presenting a drama workshop for the students, we would want to cover skills such as:
Voice Elements (volume, projection, timbre, diction, dialect, tone, pitch, articulation, pace) Body Language (stance, gestures, breathing, facial expression) Emotion (anxious, ecstatic, fretful, deliriously happy, bored ...) Role (teacher, car salesman, fairy tale ogre, 3 year old child, lottery winner, gum chewer)All of these skills can be presented and practiced by together with them in a cross-curricular drama activity.
Drama part Plans for Language Arts
This is the easiest of the subject areas to work in since most of us would consider drama to be part of our language
arts program. There are informal ways to couple drama skills into some unexpected topics.
For example:
Spelling B-mote
Practicing spelling can be more fun when students are asked to use the varied dramatic methods when spelling their words.
Voice Elements
- vary the tone, pitch, volume, speed ....
- add hesitations and a gesture to show syllable breaks
- speak with an accent
Body Language
- move body to elaborate the character of each letter as the word is spelled
for example - a swaying movement for the fluid letter 's' or stiff with arms out for the rigid letter 't'
Movements do not have to show the shape of the letter, but rather the "feel"
- maybe a punch in the stomach for the letter 'f'. Students should be told that there is no right or wrong to their choices for each letter.
Emotion
-spell the word using the emotion suggested by the teacher or leader
-spell the word using the emotion suggested by the word e.g. 'worry'
-spell the word using the opposite emotion suggested by the word e.g. 'boring'
-for difficult words - assign a definite emotion to personel students and go down the line spelling the same word in the separate emotions
Role
spell the word as if:
-you just won 3 million dollars
-you are 3 years old
-you have a mouth full of jelly beans
-you are the ogre hiding under the bridge
Many of these methods can be used for rote studying in other areas such as multiplication facts or formulas in math.
Drama part Plans for Math
Body model can add some laughter to a geometry chronicle of 2D and 3D shapes. Divide the class into groups with enough students to make the shapes that you are working on. Groups must try to be first to correctly make the shape called out by the teacher or leader.
-make a rectangle, square, rhombus .....
-make a cube, sphere, tetrahedron .....
-make a cube with a cone inside, quadrilateral inside a sphere ......
Can you think of a way to use this for reinforcing the concepts of perimeter and area with an integrated part plan?
Drama Play in Science
This could be used for chronicle or as other take on the research project! If for example you were working on an animal unit, pairs of students could be assigned one animal to research, but instead of presenting their findings in a written report or display, they would gift a short skit. Set out the requirements for the task. In the play, the humans must run into the beast in the wild, showing its natural habitat. straight through costume and dialogue the students must chronicle why they are there (hunters, hikers, scientists, swimmers ..... ). Details about the animal's appearance, behavior, food, etc. Must be given and the "plot" should make clear the results of touch in the middle of the humans and the animal.
Add a tiny drama to learning. It's fun to spice up lessons in science, math, communal studies, corporeal schooling and some of the other unusual suspects.
Drama lesson Plans For Math?
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