Drama

Week 28 – Being an Inventor

Linkage & Integration
This lesson could be integrated or linked with:

• English: Oral • Visual Arts: Designing

Language & drawing
• Maths: Numbers, • P.E.: Actions & Mime
Counting • S.P.H.E.: Myself &
• History: Inventions others
long ago • Religion: Working for
• Science: Magnetism the good of others
• Drama: Mime
Strand & Strand Units
Strand: Strand Units:
• Drama to explore • Exploring and making
feelings, knowledge drama
and ideas, leading to • Reflecting on drama
understanding
• Co-operating and
communicating in
making drama
Prerequisites & Elements
Prerequisites: Elements:
• Creating a Safe • Belief
Environment • Role and character
• Content • Action
• Place
• The Fictional Lens
• Time
• Tension
• Significance
• Genre
Assessment:

• Questioning
• Checklist:
– Ability to mime
– Audibility
– Pronunciation
– Facing Audience
Warm-up: Ideas – not all may
suit to use
Vocal Warm-Up: Physical Warm-Up:
• Tongue Twister: • Fruit Salad
• Vocal Expression: • Musical Chairs
– Loud/quiet/whisper/angry/
sad/happy/excited
Creating a Safe Environment
• Consonant Sounds: Pp – Building confidence – say 3 good
Tt
things about himself / herself
• Singing up/down scale
• Mime: Who am I?/Where
am I?
Main Activity
• Discuss inventors & inventions
• Make a list of inventions magnets could
possibly be used for
• List things that are important for the
effectiveness of a drama e.g. being heard etc.
• Create a drama based on a scientist inventing
or making a discovery using magnets
P.M.I. – Plus, Minus, Interesting.

• What positive (plus / good) thing did you

learn about yourself from this work?
• What negative (minus, not so good) thing
do you need to work on? What steps could
you take to improve this aspect of your
work?
• What did you find interesting about your
work today?
Resources:

• Feel free to use whatever props you have

to hand