Level 2
Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama (PK)
Students will explore and use elements and techniques of drama for different purposes.
Developing Ideas in Drama (DI)
Students will contribute and develop ideas in drama based on personal experience, imagination, and other stimuli.
Communicating and Interpreting in Drama (CI)
Students will share drama through informal presentation and respond to elements of drama.
Understanding Drama in Context (UC)
Students will identify drama as part of everyday life and recognise that it serves a variety of purposes.
Learning Examples
- Select and develop scenes for a safety campaign to highlight the
importance of following safety guidelines. Share the scenes as a live
performance or video infomercial. (PK, DI, CI, UC)
- Work in groups to make a drama and to plan the imagined space where
it takes place. (PK, DI)
- Talk about the clues suggested by a found object (e.g., a bag, coat,
letter, piece of paua shell). In separate groups, create and share
scenes from the life of the person who might have owned this object.
Talk about the differences and similarities between the groups' interpretations.
(PK, DI, CI)
- Brainstorm in groups the many ways in which drama features in communities.
Collate the results of the brainstorming according to the purpose
of each drama (e.g., to entertain, commemorate). (UC)
- Work in pairs, using movement and facial expression, to create a
conversation based on a theme (e.g., making friends). Share the "conversations"
and talk about situations where non-verbal communication takes place.
Make short scenes based on these situations. (PK, DI, CI, UC)
- Use process drama, in a series of lessons, to create and develop
a community from another time and place. Use the drama to explore
an issue that affects this community (e.g., conservation). (PK, DI)
- Attend a live performance and then, in groups, talk about how memorable
moments were created through the use of space, action, and contrasts
between movement and stillness or darkness and light. (CI)
- In small groups, create a drama that uses body shapes to represent
weather and its qualities, with one member of the group narrating
a story that describes the moods and contrasts of weather. (PK, DI)
- Explore alternative endings to a story or real-life event. In groups,
role-play and share these endings, and talk about why some alternatives
were preferred more than others. (DI, CI)
- Talk about the varied ways in which an audience reacts to different situations (e.g., a meeting, assembly item, busking performance, sports event, cultural festival, television programme). (UC)
