Drama / Year 3 and 4

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Curriculum content descriptions

Use voice, body, movement and language to sustain role and relationships and create dramatic action with a sense of time and place (ACADRM032)

Elaborations
  • experimenting with the loudness/softness, pace and pitch of their voices to create roles and situations, time and place
  • varying their facial expressions and movements to create roles and situations
  • exploring roles and situations by trialling the use of language, such as choice of words, expressions and tone
  • developing sensory and spatial awareness when creating dramatic action
  • experimenting with body language and gesture from different cultures and times
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Plots (Stories),  Characters (Acting)

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Blast off! Life in space - teacher resource

  • TLF-IDS6437

This teacher resource is a comprehensive sequence of teacher ideas and student activities that support the arts curriculum in drama and dance, using ideas about space exploration, the universe and the life of an astronaut as stimulus. It includes a link to the video 'Blast off with NASA astronaut Rex Walheim'. This video ...

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Shapeshifting stories

  • TLF-IDM013251

This is a resource about developing character for drama, structuring drama using the imagination as a starting point and asking key questions - Who? What? How? Where? - to shape the drama. It features a video of Vikki Doig and her friend Troy demonstrating the process of developing character and dramatising a story. The ...

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Wayang puppet plays

  • TLF-IDM013681

This is an online module consisting of teacher notes, three stimulus resources and student activities that explore wayang kulit puppetry and performances. The teacher notes provide background information about wayang puppetry and performances, additional online resources and pedagogical advice. The stimulus resources consist ...

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Bunraku puppetry

  • TLF-IDM013786

This is an online module consisting of teacher notes, three stimulus resources and student activities that explore Bunraku puppets and performances. The teacher notes provide background information about Bunraku puppetry, additional online resources and pedagogical advice. The stimulus resources consist of background information, ...

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Arts-POP: arts packages of practice

  • TLF-IDM014328

This website provides infrastructure and material to support teachers in the classroom teaching of the arts curriculum in primary school. It contains units in all the arts subjects: Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music and Visual Arts; and each of these units has a selection of supportive material that may include demonstration ...

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Arts-POP: drama

  • TLF-IDM014324

This is a unit containing material to help teachers plan, implement and assess a middle primary drama program that looks at Indian culture and its economic complexities. It describes a drama program implemented in a year 4 class that uses role-play, process drama and language to explore ideas about wealth distribution, ...

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