Sunday, September 13, 2009

Two sources for Creative Drama Lesson Plans

Sometimes a busy schedule or just a lack of ideas for whatever reason will hinder us from putting together drama lesson plans in a creative manner. So getting a little help may not be a bad idea. At http://www.childdrama.com you will find a wide range of proven and tested drama lesson plans. The lesson plans have been sorted by age, level, and cross curricular content allowing easy navigation. They also allow you to share your lesson plans with others.

Although not the most aesthetically pleasing site, the excellent quality of the content forces one to overlook this.

Some of the lesson included are -

* Narrative Pantomime Stories
* Improvisation Activities
* Writing Activities


More creative drama lessons can be found at http://www.drama-education.com. Undoubtedly a great place to go if you seek drama lesson plans. Here you will find the following:

* classroom resources
* lesson plans and schemes of work
* links directory
* online training courses
* presentations
* articles about drama and education
* curriculum materials

Feel Free to explore these two great resources.

http://www.childdrama.com/lessons.html
http://www.drama-education.com/site/

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Getting Really Creative with the Drama Lesson Plan

Improv Encyclopedia




Provides a great source of Improvisation games all listed in alphabetical order. Take the time browse through and you may find some things you may not have seen before. Improv Encyclopedia claims to be the largest collection of resources for improvisation theater on the web. Well there is a lot of useful information here to add innovation to your drama lessons. With several Categories to go through We are sure you will find some useful additions to your drama lesson.

Improv Encyclopedia Categories

  • Accepting
  • Association
  • Audience Participation
  • Audience Warm-up
  • Characters
  • Concentration
  • Continuation
  • Die
  • Endowment
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Exercise
  • Experts
  • Format
  • Gibberish
  • Group
  • Guessing
  • Icebreakers
  • Limitations
  • Long Form
  • Look and Listen
  • Narration
  • Object Work
  • Performance
  • Replay
  • SingSong
  • Solo
  • Spontaneity
  • Status
  • Timed
  • Trust
  • Verbal wit
  • Warm-up
Find out more at http://improvencyclopedia.org

Welcome to the Drama Teachers Resource Blog


Welcome to the Drama Teachers Resource Blog. This is a hub of great resources to help you (the drama teacher) bring more to your lessons. We will try to keep this site as current as possible with fresh material every day. From Shakespeare to Improvisation exercises... we are all about making it easy for you.

Imagine.... tons of Drama Lesson Plans FREE from experts all over the world. Exceptional lesson plans just waiting for you to add your creativity to them. Afterall... what is drama without creativity? So once again welcome to the Drama Teachers Resource Blog...