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Basic Principles of Teaching Drama
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URL:http://www.angelfire.com/ego/edp303/basics.html
Summary:This is a good website to use if you need to find games to play with your students. It has multiple games for various age groups, while also providing links to other websites that could be useful.
Submitter:Anthony Galardi

Child Drama
Author:Matt Buchanan
URL:http://www.childdrama.com/mainframe.html
Summary:This website is all about creative dramatics and children's theatre. The website contains terms and definitions concerning creative dramtics, lesson plans, teacher resources, photos, and tips for teaching and encorporating creative dramatics into a classroom. The website creator is also willing to field any questions a browser may have concerning creative dramatics in the classroom.
Submitter:Michael Adams

"Who's Dancing Now?"
Author:Anthony Chapman
URL:www.pbs.org/wnet/dancing/resources/index.html
Summary:This extension of PBS's website contains various education resources for teachers of the arts. This site contains various links to references for teachers, parents, and other educators: such as ways to use the arts in the classroom as well as the community. It provides lesson plans for both dance and theater (as well as music, literary arts, and visual arts) for a variety fo grade levels. This site contains creative and intersting teaching ideas for integrating theater and dance into the elementary classroom. As a future elementary school teacher, having a site where I can easily access lesson plans is very valuable.
Submitter:Katherine Raezler

Childdrama.com
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URL:http://www.childdrama.com
Summary:This website has many great ideas for lesson plans that can be used in the classroom and they are organized by grade level. Teachers for young children could benefit from this website because it contains directions for setting up activities, ideas for discussion, and other useful tools found on the main menu links.
Submitter:Bevin Francis

Creative Dramatics in the Classroom
Author:Dee Dickinson
URL:http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/arts/dickinson_drama.htm
Summary:Basically, she explains how to teach Creative Dramatics in efficient ways. She suggests that it is important to make children have confidence and make them have a strong motivation to do creative dance. Furthermore, she suggests that teachers need to give children more opportunities to learn in ways that accommodate individual strengths and abilities. From her suggestion, I want to use her advice when I go to volunteer work and I want to observe the children's reactions.
Submitter:Na-Yeong Kang

Systems of the Body: Movement and Choreography
Author:Randy Barron
URL:http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2012/
Summary:Combining science and dance, this lesson plan teaches basic systems and processes of the human body using creative dance. It offers both group activities, such as mirrored actions, and independent movements. The lesson plan includes everything from resources to assessment and even the targeted benchmarks. Using cross-curriculum planning, this lesson helps teachers to integrate science and dance in a fun yet beneficial lesson plan.
Submitter:Ashley Rochford

Creativity in the Classroom: Schools of Curious Delight
Author:Aane Starko
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Summary:This book focuses on how to create effective lesson plans and teach all the content necessary while still being creative. It includes problems new teachers have with fitting all the content into an allotment of teaching time. This
Submitter:Michelle Mitchell

Creative Drama and Theatre Education Resource Site
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URL:http://www.creativedrama.com/
Summary:This website provides the reader with many different ideas about creative darmatics. The site lists the different aspects of creative drama and uses the authors own personal experiences both as a teacher an actor in order to explain how creative dramatics can enhance the classroom/learning environment. This is a valuable site to teacher because it includes many different resourse for drama in the classroom. These resoures include texts on creative dramatics, lesson plan ideas, play reviews, and more.
Submitter:Sarah Schultz

How to develop student creativity
Author:R Sternberg
URL:http://ozpk.tripod.com/000000creat
Summary:In Robert Sternberg's book he suggests strategies for teachers to help students express their creativity. He has created a 25 step process in which teachers start by modeling creativity and ends with the students growing creatively and teaching others to be creative. He explains what he has meant by each step and how to complete the 25 steps process. This book can come into use for teachers because the field of education has become very test score focused and often educators forget to allow creativity in students.
Submitter:kelly SCHMITT

Creative Dance Center
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URL:http://www.creativedance.org
Summary:This is the Creative Dance Center website. Within the website it explores the teaching techniques of creative dance. The lesson plan they chose to explore was constructed by Anne Green Gilbert and it focuses on the main points of creative dance: pathways, space, flow, etc. This lesson plan serves as a model to use in your own classroom. The lesson pertains to second graders, and it teaches energy and emotion through creative movement. The emotions targeted are ones that second graders can relate to, and it encourages them to see he different ways to express these emotions.
Submitter:Lindsay Green






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