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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 (39)
  • High School/Secondary (69)
  • (-) Middle School/Secondary (72)
  • Upper Elementary/Primary (73)

Space Needed

  • Large Space (4)
  • Limited Space (19)
  • Open Area (34)
  • Room for a Circle (22)
  • Room for a Standing Line (3)

Activating Dialogue

  • Embodied Dialogue (6)
  • Rituals to Begin and End (9)
  • Text-Based/Visual Dialogue (7)

Image Work

  • Body as Image (5)
  • Images in Action (5)
  • Object as Image (6)

Role Work

  • Creating Context and Subtext (5)
  • Performing Character (5)
  • Performing with a Dramatic Dilemma (6)

Theatre Game as Metaphor

  • Conflict, Power & Problem Solving (7)
  • Ensemble, Energy & Focus (15)
  • Setting, Story & Character (2)

Content Area

  • (-) Art (59)
  • English Language Arts (83)
  • Health/Social Emotional (76)
  • Math (55)
  • Multilingual Learning (63)
  • (-) Science (67)
  • Social Studies (78)

Teaching Strategies

  • (-) Middle School/Secondary
  • (-) Art
  • (-) Science

Displaying 72 Teaching Strategies

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

3

3-D Models

A

Advertising/Design Pitch
Artifacts

B

Bippity Bippity Bop

C

Check In
Circle Dash
Columbian Hypnosis
Complete the Image
Connecting Images
Conscience Alley
Constellations
Cover the Space
Cross the Room/ Stand Up If
Crumbling

D

Data Processing
Defender

E

Exploding Atom
Exploration/Adventure

F

Four Corners
Frozen Picture/Stage Picture
Fruit Bowl

G

Give and Take
Great Game of Power
Group Counting
Group Mural
Group/String Shapes
Guided Imagery

H

Heads Up
Heartbeat Ball
Hot Seating

I

Iceberg of Identity
Invisible Balls
It Made Me Think
In The Manner of the Adverb

K

Knots

M

Machine
Mirrors

N

Narrative Pantomime
New York, NY

O

Object Metaphor
Obstacle Course

P

Paired/Group Improv
Pass the Picture
People, Shelter, Storm
Perspective Web
Poster Dialogue
Public Service Announcement

R

Real and Ideal Images
Recipe for Me

S

Sculptor/Clay
Show Us
Snowball
Soundscapes
Statues
Stop and Go and Jump

T

This is Not a...
This Setting Needs...
Talk Show/Press Conference 

Three Changes
Touchstones
Tour of a Space
Town Hall Meeting
Travel/Time Machine
Trial/Courtroom
Truth About Me

V

Visual Dramaturgy/Collective Drawing
Visual Mapping
Vote from Your Seat
Vote With Your Feet

W

Watercolor Conversations
Words of Wisdom
Writing in Role
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