DRAMA EDUCATION ONLINE - TEACHERS
HTY Digital Resources for Teachers
The resources available on this page offer teachers multiple ways to integrate creative strategies into daily lessons. There are instructional videos, step-by-step drama strategy guides, lesson plans with handouts and videos and connections to many different texts. Feel free to download any or all of them. And let us know if there are any other resources we might provide.
Introduction by HTY Director of Drama Education, Mr. Dan
Please click to scroll down to the following lessons/activities:
• Integrating Drama with Text: Fiction and Non-Fiction
• Blue: A lesson on friendship and bullying through story and puppets
• The Brave Little Turtle
• Words in Motion: Bringing Verbs, Adverbs and Adjectives to Life
• The Four ‘C’ Words of Drama
• The V.I.B.E.S. Drama Traits: Building Creativity
Integrating Drama with Text: Fiction and Non-Fiction
The drama integrated lesson plans available for download here include:
Step-by-step plans
Videos of how to facilitate the drama strategies
Step-by-step guides for each drama strategy
The lessons were filmed during an HTY professional development course for classroom teachers called ‘Creative Engagement, Critical Literacy.’ You will see teachers as participants, but the demonstrated strategies are intended for use with children in a classroom setting. Each video shows how to apply a single drama integration strategy to exploring fiction or nonfiction text.
Click on the titles for pdf lesson plans with links to resources and videos.
Click here for a pdf of all of the lessons and resources.
LOWER
ELEMENTARY
Rain School
by James Rumford
Students creatively compare their experiences of a first day at school with the that of a group of children in Africa who build their own school.
ELEMENTARY
Bridge of Flowers: A Filipino folktale
The teacher and students improvise a family meeting to discuss what to do about the youngest daughter’s behavior
The Story of Ruby Bridges
by Robert Coles
The teacher and students improvise a family meeting to discuss what to do about the youngest daughter’s behavior
UPPER ELEMENTARY
/ MIDDLE SCHOOL
The Friend who Changed my Life
by Pam Munoz Ryan
Students enact the characters and relationships in this story about the thin line between friends and bullies.
Henry Hudson
(Beyond the Sea of Ice by Joan Elizabeth Goodman)
Students dramatize the story of the mutiny against Henry Hudson.