Lesson Overview
The students will discuss and explore the use of movement, action and music in telling a First Nations Dreamtime Story. Students will take on the role of the animals in the story by using their senses.
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A student will learn to:
- make drama by interacting with the teacher and others and by using their imagination to create roles and dramatic situations
- communicate imagined situations through drama forms such as improvisation, movement, mime and storytelling
- begin to respond to their own drama in terms of roles and space.
A student will learn about:
- engaging in the basic elements of drama such as tension, contrast (loud/soft, fast/slow) and symbol.
- sharing their drama with others.
- depicting everyday situations in dramatic contexts.
Lesson Resources
- Aboriginal-and-Torres-Strait-Map-of-Australia.pdf
- Acknowledgement-of-Country.pdf
- Animal-Visuals-for-how-the-Kangaroo-got-her-Pouch.pdf
- Individual-Animal-Visuals-for-How-the-Kangaroo-got-her-Pouch.pdf
- Pass-It-On-Visuals.pdf
- The-Five-Senses.pdf
- Why-We-Acknowledge.pdf
- Yes_No-Question-Response-Visuals.pdf