Incorporating Theater into Social Studies

Students love interactive lessons, and what better way than to do a collaborative lesson incorporating drama and theater into an elementary classroom! The last group for fieldwork did this as an activity, and it was clear that this was a favorite of the students. Every student loved putting on costumes and in a group working together to follow the skit given to them. Each skit in some way incorporated to the topic that they were speaking on, and there was multiple settings such as a newscast, a classroom, and a conversation. The students really had fun with it, using props and actions to become the character. I feel that if the students had more time to work on their skit, it would have been very successful in teaching others the information!