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Direct linkMutlu, Ayfer – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2021
This study aimed to develop, introduce, and conduct an inquiry-driven creative drama activity. The activity, for elementary students, related to the transmission of light and full shadow. In the activity, which consisted of a warm-up, dramatization, and evaluation stages, two inquiry-based experiments were added to the dramatization stage. Thus,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Inquiry
Smedley, Nikky – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018
Using creative and performative methods is central to engaging children in fun and inspiring learning. This hands-on guide provides activities, quick tips and advice for developing performance and creative skills to support delivery of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Each chapter focuses on a particular method, including storytelling,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teaching Skills, Creativity, Teaching Methods
Deaton, Cynthia C. M.; Dodd, Kristen; Drennon, Katherine; Nagle, Jack – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2012
"Prey Play" is an interactive role-play activity that provides fifth-grade students with opportunities to examine predator-prey interactions. This four-part, role-play activity allows students to take on the role of a predator and prey as they reflect on the behaviors animals exhibit as they collect food and interact with one another, as well as…
Descriptors: Observation, Grade 5, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Download full textPeace Corps, 2013
The "Life Skills and Leadership Manual" is designed to be used by Peace Corps Volunteers and their counterparts who work with youth worldwide to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes integral to three Youth in Development sector competencies: (1) Support healthy lifestyles and prepare youth for family life; (2) Prepare youth for…
Descriptors: Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers, International Organizations, Daily Living Skills
Peer reviewedYawkey, Thomas D.; Hrncir, Elizabeth J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1982
Imaginative play can enhance preschoolers' oral language when the child's internal control is strenghtened, external reality is suspended, and motivation exists to become involved. The caregiver provides cues in the arrangement of the environment and selection of materials. Cues can encourage dramatic as well as sociodramatic play. (CL)
Descriptors: Creativity, Cues, Dramatics, Imagination
Torrance, E. Paul – Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 1979
The third in a series of six articles on the use of different models for developing creativity and instructional materials focuses on the sociodrama model. (SBH)
Descriptors: Creativity, Instructional Materials, Models, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedAnderson, Jared; Barrera, Gregory; Benedict, Julie; Cavanaugh, Michael; Christensen, Jessica; Clark, Susannah; Dallimore, Natalie; Drown, Danielle; Fink, Susan; Hansen, Josh; Haubner, Ashley; Hinsdale, Robin; Johnson, Tyler; King, JuLee; Maufort, Brenda; Neubauer, Laura; Popple, Jennifer; Praggastis, Cate; Price, Matt; Raber, Lloyd; Rowland, Tiffany; Strite-Hatch, Amy; Torson, Christine; Tuckness, Tara – Stage of the Art, 2003
Explains that each year, theatre education majors at the University of Utah select a production that will be mounted by a professional theatre company on the campus. Explains that the theatre education majors complete extensive dramaturgical research for the production, and create a process drama pre-show piece that is presented to over 1500 K-12…
Descriptors: Creativity, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education, Role Playing
Anzilotti, Gloria Italiano – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1982
Outlines John Dewey's philosophy of education and describes the Creative Drama Seminar, a method the author has developed based on Dewey's pedagogical principles for students studying English as a foreign language in an Italian university. (CFM)
Descriptors: Creative Dramatics, Creativity, Educational Philosophy, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedDemo, Mary Penasack – Children's Theatre Review, 1983
Reports on 10 documents from the ERIC system that provide insight on the creative process and information on a variety of creative classroom activities. (PD)
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics, Creativity, Dramatic Play
Texas Child Care, 1996
Asserts that puppets help children in storytelling and role playing, encouraging creativity and language development. Details types of puppets and how to construct them, including: (1) figure stick puppets; (2) paper plate puppets; and (3) garden glove puppets. Describes how to construct different puppet stages for performance. (BGC)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Early Childhood Education, Handicrafts
Wiener, Ron – 1997
This book, written for trainers as well as for persons who occasionally provide training in a work setting, is organized in three parts. Each fact is individual, although there is some cross-referencing. "Running Staff Training Groups" focuses on the way in which trainers can use action learning methods such as role play to impart their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Creativity, Experiential Learning
Shea, Mary Lou; And Others – 1985
This learning module, which is part of a staff development program for health occupations clinical instructors, discusses various creative teaching techniques that can be used in teaching students to find information, use opportunities to learn, assume responsibility for self-learning, solve problems, apply skills learned to new situations,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives, Brainstorming, Case Studies
