• DRAMA FROM PICTURE BOOKS:  A collection of ideas for using a picture book to start a Drama activity.  Listed first here because the ideas vary widely as to appropriate age level.
• HAND ANIMALS:  A first character game.  For first-time drama students.
• NURSERY RHYME CHARADES:  A pantomime guessing game about nursery rhymes.  For Pre-Kindergarten and up.
• A TREE GROWS:  A narrative pantomime about an apple tree growing from a seed.  For Elementary and younger.
• PAINTING THE BOX:  A narrative pantomime about personal space and visualizing colors.
• PAINTING THE MUSIC:  A narrative pantomime about emotion and drama in music and paint.
• RAINFOREST LESSONS:  A small collection of lessons and lesson variations about the rainforest. For Pre-Kindergarten and up.
• NO, YOU CAN'T TAKE ME!:  A fun game that requires critical thinking skills.  For Elementary students.
• THE LION KING'S COURT:  A role-playing game about friendship and animals.  (Nothing to do with the Disney film.)  For Elementary students.
• SEASONS AND WEATHER:  An activity that teaches younger children about seasons and weather or that can be used with older students as an improvisation game.  For Elementary and older.
• COMING TOGETHER:  A narrative pantomime about space and visualizing space, and about community and friendships.  For Elementary and older.
• THANKSGIVING FEAST:  A narrative pantomime about using our senses and the First Thanksgiving.  For Kindergarten and up.
• SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON:  A pantomime project based on the famous story.  Teaches analytical thinking skills and body awareness.  For Kindergarten and up.
• RHYME CHARADES:  A game of rhymes and pantomime.  For Kindergarten and up.
• AROUND THE WORLD IN THIRTY MINUTES: An imaginary journey that teaches geography and cultures.  For Elementary students.
• BEN FRANKLIN'S INVENTIONS:  A physical creativity game.  For Elementary students.
• SCULPTURE GALLERY:  A game of posing and creating, which allows students to see the creative process from the inside and the outside.  For Elementary and older.
• MIRROR MIRROR:  A collection of mirroring exercises.  For all ages.
• PUPPETS IN THE DRAMA CLASSROOM:  A collection of puppet-making and puppetry projects.
• GUIDED IMAGERY:  Sensory awareness, imagination, story-making and concentration all are enhanced by this meditation-like activity.  For around 3d grade to adult.
• EMOTION WALK:  A big lesson about movement, body language, and the ability to consciously control our movements and the impressions we make with them.  For older Elementary through adult.
• THREE LESSONS ABOUT ENERGY:  Three lessons designed around a third-grade science unit on energy and the three states of matter.  For Elementary students.
• THE JEFFREY GAME:  A movement game of building on one anothers' ideas.  For older Elementary through adult.
• MUSICAL FREEZE IMPROVS:  An improvisation game of creative movement.  For all students.
• GROUP STORY PROJECT:  A big project.  Guides a class to cooperatively write their own original story.  Can be used to generate a story for the Group Playwriting Project.  For Elementary students.
• GROUP PLAYWRITING PROJECT:  Another big project.  Guides a class to cooperatively write their own play from an existing story.  For older Elementary students.
• NEWS PLAYS:  Supports Social Studies, History, or Current Events curricula.  Involves improvisation, group planning, and performance.  For older Elementary students.
• OREGON TRAIL PROPAGANDA:  Supports a Social Studies unit about the Oregon Trail.  Examines the nature of propaganda, as well as the nature of advertising in today's world.  For older Elementary students.
• FOURTH-GRADE PLAY:  This is not really a lesson plan.  It is a narrative description of the entire project, which took several months, by which my fourth-graders and I wrote and produced a play about the Oregon Trail. For older Elementary and up.
• SOCIAL ROLES:  A pantomime guessing game that teaches the idea of social roles within any society, and supports a Social Studies curriculum in world cultures.  For older Elementary students.
• GIBBERISH SENTENCES:  A pantomime game that explores ways to communicate without words.  Can be used as a primer to more elaborate Theatre Games, or to support a Social Studies curriculum about immigrants.  For older Elementary and up.
• THE DISCOVERY OF FIRE:  An improvised scene about early humans.  For older Elementary and up.
• RITUALS:  Students create their own magical rituals while exploring the importance of ritual to early (and modern) cultures.  For older Elementary and up.
• PAPER MASKS:  A lesson using masks to teach body language.  Can be related to a Social Studies unit on Greek Theatre.  For older Elementary and up.
• EDWENA'S GAMES:  The first of what I hope will be many pages of games and lessons from other teachers.  A collection of concentration, warm-up and improvisation games from a friend.
• THREE WORDS:  A pantomime and improvisation exercise.  For older Theatre students
• MAKE YOUR OWN GREEK PLAY:  An exercise designed to teach concepts about Classical Greek drama in a hands-on way.  For older Middle School and up.
• INSTANT JOURNEYS:  A fun and fast-paced improvisation and teamwork game.  For Middle School and up.
• STORY STORY:  A fun improvisation, storytelling and pantomime game.  For Middle School and up.
• I AM WALKING--INSTANT VERSION:   A game of cooperation and communication.  For Middle School and up.
• JOB INTERVIEW:  A wacky concentration game that makes you think on your feet.  For older Theatre students.
• CIRCLE OF CHARACTERS:  A complex and challenging game of characters and observation.  For older Theatre students.
• HANGMAN CHARADES:   Just for fun.  For Middle School and up.
  
• CONCEPT CHARADES:   A challenging game of improvisation and creativity .  For Advanced Middle School and up.
  
• WHAT WOULD YOU DO?:   An exercise for helping young actors more fully inhabit their characters.  For Middle School and up.
  
• SLOW MOTION WALK:   A writing exercise, really. Great for getting over writer's block.  For Middle School and up.
  
• IMPROVS AND WARMUPS:  A collection of warmup exercises and improvisation games collected from various places.  For older Theatre students.

• Narrative Pantomime Stories: These are lessons that involve Narrative Pantomime--a technique in which the teacher or leader tells a story and each student, usually working independently, "acts out" the story.
• Physical and Pantomime Activities: These activities all teach physical control and pantomime communication.
• Improvisation Activities: Virtually all Creative Drama involves improvisation, but these plans focus in part on building improvisation skills.
• Role Drama Activities: These lessons use the technique known as Role Drama, in which students are in role and must make choices and relate to each other in role.
• Writing Activities: These lessons focus on the writing process.
• Lesson Collections: Though listed normally on other lists, these are actually collections of related lessons, rather than individual lessons.

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