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Use the categories below to find a strategy that fits your context and meets your instructional goal.

Age Group

  • Early Elementary/Primary (36)
  • High School/Secondary (72)
  • Middle School/Secondary (75)
  • (-) Upper Elementary/Primary (74)

Space Needed

  • (-) Large Space (15)
  • Limited Space (31)
  • (-) Open Area (71)
  • Room for a Circle (56)
  • Room for a Standing Line (3)

Activating Dialogue

  • Embodied Dialogue (3)
  • Rituals to Begin and End (2)
  • Text-Based/Visual Dialogue (5)

Image Work

  • Body as Image (4)
  • Images in Action (5)
  • Object as Image (1)

Role Work

  • Creating Context and Subtext (1)
  • Performing Character (2)
  • Performing with a Dramatic Dilemma (3)

Theatre Game as Metaphor

  • Conflict, Power & Problem Solving (7)
  • Ensemble, Energy & Focus (14)
  • Setting, Story & Character (1)

Content Area

  • Art (25)
  • English Language Arts (37)
  • Health/Social Emotional (37)
  • Math (28)
  • Multilingual Learning (32)
  • Science (35)
  • Social Studies (38)

Teaching Strategies

  • (-) Upper Elementary/Primary
  • (-) Large Space
  • (-) Open Area

Displaying 74 Teaching Strategies

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | V | W

A

Alphabet Relay

C

Columbian Hypnosis
Complete the Image
Complete the Image
Connecting Images
Constellations
Cover the Space
Crumbling

D

Data Processing
Defender

E

Exploding Atom
Exploration/Adventure
Extended Sound and Movement

F

Flocking
Four Corners
Frozen Picture/Stage Picture
Fruit Bowl

G

Give and Take
Great Game of Power
Group Emotion
Group Mural
Group/String Shapes

H

Humpty Dumpty Improv

I

Islands

K

Kabish/Kaboo

L

Living Portraits

M

Machines
Magic Present
Mapping Geographies of Home
Mime Rhyme
Mirror Me
Mirrors
Mirror Speech
Multi-lingual Counting

N

Name + Adjective + Movement
Name Ball
Name Game
Name Tag
Narrative Pantomime
New York, NY

O

Obstacle Course

P

Paired/Group Improv
People to People
People, Shelter, Storm
Poster Dialogue
Public Service Announcement
Punctuation to Punctuation (P2P)

Q

Quick Frozen Critters

R

Real and Ideal Images
Real/Ideal Images

S

Sculptor/Clay
Shoes
Show Us
Smaug's Jewels
Stop and Go and Jump

T

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
This Setting Needs...
Talk Show/Press Conference 

Three Ball Toss
Three Irish Duels
Tilt
Tour of a Place
Tour of a Space
Trust Walk
Truth About Me
Tug of War (Without a Rope)
Two by Three by Bradford

V

Visual Mapping

W

Wah
Walking on Towels
What's The Story
Whoosh, Whoa, Zap

Y

Yes, AND...

Z

Zip Zap Zop
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