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explore where, why and how drama is created and/or performed across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9ADR4E01)

Elaborations
  • listening to actors in a drama created for purposes such as entertainment or infotainment talk about how they developed their character and what they found interesting or surprising about the imaginary world they created; then considering and discussing the actors’ responses
  • comparing the expectations and requirements of performers and audience in a range of cultural settings, such as cultural settings in Australia and Asia, and applying this learning in their own performances; for example, identifying how the audience and performers interact and what knowledge the audience needs to have about the drama
  • reflecting on live or recorded drama performances and asking questions such as “What is the purpose of this drama?”, “What features and ideas in the drama come from other cultures, times and places?”, “How could we use these ideas in our drama?”, “Why do you think people from diverse cultures create drama for similar purposes?”
  • examining drama in their community and comparing it to other drama of different people, times and cultures; for example, exploring examples of puppetry and/or physical (movement-based) theatre in their communities and comparing this with examples of those forms from other cultures, times or places
  • reflecting on and sharing ideas with others about the meaning and intended purposes of their own drama; for example, sharing embodied responses using movement, gesture or language
General capabilities
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural Understanding
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Culture,  Drama (Arts),  Cultural contexts,  Devised drama

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Set design – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

  • TLF-IDA009564
  • Learning areasDesign and Technologies; The Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This sequence of five lessons develops students’ ‘design thinking’ using the process professional designers take to bring a story from the page to the stage. Students will take on the role of honorary members of the design team at the Royal Ballet and Opera, commissioned to design a stage set for the ballet Alice’s Adventures ...

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I.B.I.S (2015)

  • TLF-IDA008211
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama; Dance; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s I.B.I.S is inspired by life on the Torres Strait Islands and captures the regions unique style of dance, music and storytelling. Accompanying a video of I.B.I.S’s four short acts are downloadable resources that can be used to build class activities, promote discussion and develop skills in creating ...

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Moth (2003)

  • TLF-IDA008197
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama; Dance; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Moth represents a story of spiritual inheritance and transformation and is inspired by Aboriginal Dreamtime creation stories. Accompanying a video of Moth are downloadable resources that can be used to build class activities, promote discussion and develop skills in creating contemporary dance. ...

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Brolga (2001)

  • TLF-IDA008196
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama; Dance; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Brolga is inspired by totemic systems in Australian Aboriginal culture. It illustrates the concepts of ceremony, connection and transformation between a human spirit and the spirit of a creature. Accompanying a video of Brolga are downloadable resources that can be used to build class activities, ...

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Set design - The Magic Flute

  • TLF-IDA009568
  • Learning areasDesign and Technologies; The Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated20/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This sequence of five lessons develops students’ ‘design thinking’ using the process professional designers take to bring a story from the page to the stage.  Students take on the role of honorary members of the design team at the Royal Ballet and Opera, commissioned to design a stage set for The Magic Flute.  They will ...

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Shapeshifting stories

  • TLF-IDM013251
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 3; 4
  • Updated11/05/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

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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TrackSAFE Education Primary School Resources: Year 3, Year 4 The Arts

  • TLF-IDM025092
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Visual Arts; Drama; Music
  • Year levels 3; 4
  • Updated06/05/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

This webpage includes a unit uses various arts practices as the stimuli for exploring the safety message of Stop, Look, Listen, Think. Students create woven artworks to incorporate safety messages; they collaboratively develop a play about safety; and explore rap as a music form and combined with dance convey a safety ...

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Join the circus

  • TLF-IDM025949
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Health and physical education; Drama
  • Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated25/10/2023
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Learn about different circus skills and create a short performance.

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Puppet masters

  • TLF-IDM025924
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama
  • Year levels 3; 4; 5; 6
  • Updated25/10/2023
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Create and experiment with puppets made out of paper!

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Blast off! Life in space - teacher resource

  • TLF-IDS6437
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama; Dance
  • Year levels 3; 4
  • Updated08/12/2021
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

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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Puppet Pals HD

  • TLF-IDM013078
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Drama; Media Arts
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4
  • Updated18/02/2021
  • AC version 8
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This is a free application for the iPad that focuses on creating plays using a library of eight animated fairytale characters and five background scenes. It features video, audio and a record function, as well as the ability to import background scenes from personal photo libraries, create actors from photos, and save, ...

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Magic Island

  • TLF-IDA010233
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Music
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated29/06/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Magic Island, by Australian composer Paul Stanhope, is a lesson in how music can express emotion through various instruments. Students listen to and discuss the emotions evoked in the music and investigate featured instruments such as the harp, glockenspiel and vibraphone. They sing and play accompaniment to the music, ...

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'Bridge work, Burma-Thailand Railway', 1946

  • TLF-IDR8598
  • Learning areasThe Arts; History; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated30/04/2026

This ink, pen and pencil gouache drawing on paper shows prisoners of the Japanese working to build the Burma-Thailand Railway in Thailand during the Second World War. Five men in the foreground, managed by a skeletal comrade, strain up a compacted mud rise bearing a heavy log that will be hewn into bridge supports, planks ...

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Narragunnawali: Reconciliation in Education

  • TLF-IDM021285
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Humanities and social sciences; Civics and citizenship; Economics and business; Geography; History; English; Health and physical education; Languages; Science; Design and Technologies
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated30/04/2026

Reconciliation Australia's Narragunnawali program has tools and resources for schools and early learning services to teach about, and take action towards, reconciliation between non-First Nations Australians and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Narragunnawali online platform provides practical ways to ...

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'Residence of John Macarthur near Parramatta, NSW'

  • TLF-IDR3611
  • Learning areasHistory; The Arts; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated30/04/2026

This is a watercolour study by the painter Joseph Lycett (1774-1828), measuring 20.8 cm x 28.6 cm and painted around 1824. It depicts Elizabeth Farm, which had been established some 30 years earlier (1793) by the founders of Australia's merino wool industry, Elizabeth and John Macarthur. It shows an open park-like setting ...

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'Sea mouth of the Murray', 1844

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  • Learning areasHistory; The Arts; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated30/04/2026

This is a watercolour painting, dated 1844, by George French Angas (1822-86). It measures 26.0 cm x 35.6 cm and presents a view of the mouth of the Murray River seen from low sand hills in the foreground. Part of a whale skeleton can be seen on the sand flats near the centre of the work. To the left is a group of pelicans. ...

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'Melbourne from across the Yarra'

  • TLF-IDR3607
  • Learning areasHistory; The Arts; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated30/04/2026

This is a watercolour painted in 1854 by Ludwig Becker (1808-61), that takes in a view of the city of Melbourne from across the Yarra River at sunset. All the action is compressed into the bottom half of this small, but highly detailed painting (the work measures 13.7 cm x 21.8 cm). The city, a bustling jumble of civic ...

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'An Australian fjord'

  • TLF-IDR3613
  • Learning areasThe Arts; History; Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated30/04/2026

This is a large oil painting, measuring 124.5 cm x 88.7 cm, and painted by W C Piguenit (1836-1914) between 1899 and 1901. A mist has just lifted, revealing a sweeping panorama, all slick and shiny and wet in the early morning light. Beyond a foreground of rocks and tangled vegetation, a mirror-smooth river runs off into ...

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Koorie Cross-Curricular Protocols for Victorian Government Schools

  • TLF-IDM019898
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Economics and business; Civics and citizenship; English; Geography; Health and physical education; History; Languages; Mathematics; Science; Design and technologies; Digital technologies
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated30/04/2026

The Koorie Cross-Curricular Protocols for Victorian Government Schools are applicable to schools intending to develop activities that involve the use of Koorie cultural expressions, including stories, songs, instrumental music, dances, plays, ceremonies, rituals, performances, symbols, drawings, designs, paintings, poetry, ...

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Patricia Piccinini

  • TLF-IDA009168
  • Learning areasThe Arts; Visual Arts; Dance
  • Year levels F; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12
  • Updated29/04/2026
  • AC version 8
  • AC version 9

Patricia Piccinini is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists, embracing a wide array of materials in her work and moves across multiple media forms. These include still, computer generated images, interactive CD-ROMs, immersive video, sculptural installations, and film. This resource includes artwork images, questions ...

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