1 / 24

Chapter 9

Chapter 9. Drama, Role Play, and Simulations. Looking Ahead. What role does dramatic excitement and suspense play in the social studies curriculum? What is a true educational experience? What techniques can teachers employ to help create educational experiences?

kynan
Download Presentation

Chapter 9

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Chapter 9 Drama, Role Play, and Simulations

  2. Looking Ahead • What role does dramatic excitement and suspense play in the social studies curriculum? • What is a true educational experience? • What techniques can teachers employ to help create educational experiences? • What factors must teachers be mindful of when using these or other techniques?

  3. Can You? • Explain how drama is a problem-solving activity? • Identify reasons for using dramatic activities? • Describe different forms of mock trials? • Explain stories and get students to tell stories in ways that are meaningful for the learning context?

  4. Do You? • Understand the term dramatic tension? • Understand how to use a variety of dramatic techniques in social studies? • Understand the difference between role play and socio-drama? • Understand what a guided fantasy is and the purposes of this technique? • Understand the concept, in-basket game?

  5. Focus Activity • In small groups, generate a list of powerful quotes from speeches and writings of historic figures. • Here are a few examples: • "I have a dream." -Martin Luther King, Jr. • "This day shall go down in infamy."-Franklin Delano Roosevelt • "Ask not what your country can do for you."-John F. Kennedy • “Ain't I a woman?"-Sojourner Truth • “We hold these truths to be self evident…” – Thomas Jefferson • "Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers set forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." -Abraham Lincoln • "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.... "-Emma Lazarus

  6. Focus Activity • Repeat each quote several times going around the group with each person trying to express the quote as dramatically and differently as possible. • Discuss the meaning of each quote, and the nuances that the different ways of stating the quote add. • What does this say about how we learn from dramatic and eloquent figures in history and what we can learn from using drama in teaching? • Share responses with peers and instructor.

  7. The Importance of Drama in the Social Studies • What kind of classroom do you want to create? • What does drama mean for the social studies teacher? • What is positive dramatic tension and how does one create it? • Why should a teacher use drama?

  8. Drama through Reading • What are/is… • Guided Fantasies? • Class Action Dramas? • Reader’s Theater? • Dramatic Reading? • Brags • Cliffhangers • Character monologues • In-role reports • First- and third-person poems

  9. Role Plays and Other Structured Drama Techniques • What are/is… • Structured Role-Play? • Sociodramas? • Children'sTheater?

  10. Art and Story Related Dramatic Techniques • What are/is… • Picture Pantomimes? • Story Play?

  11. Reenactment • What makes reenactments so beneficial for students? • What ways can you incorporate a reenactment?

  12. Interactional Drama • What is an Interactional Drama? • What is suspended disbelief and why is it important? • Why should you not mimic famous people?

  13. Drama Units • What are Drama Units? • How can one utilize them in a social studies classroom?

  14. Story Telling in Social Studies • Why utilize the “story telling” approach? • What are the three requirements for story telling? • learning to choose a story that is worth telling and fits your purposes • learning how to learn a story • learning how to tell a story

  15. Process Drama in Social Studies • What is a process drama? • What key tools to this approach? • Why should a teacher utilize this approach?

  16. Effective Use of Drama in Social Studies • What are the possible benefits and pitfalls for utilizing drama in the social studies? • How important is preparation when using drama?

  17. Simulation Games • What are simulation games? • What are the possible benefits and pitfalls for utilizing simulation games in the social studies? • What is the most important element to consider when using simulation games?

  18. Mock Trials • What are mock trials? • What are the possible benefits and pitfalls for utilizing mock trials in the social studies? • What are the nine forms of mock trials?

  19. Looking Back • Teachers who have a stronger sense of the drama of the classroom are going to add suspense and excitement to their teaching. • Among the many other forms of drama that can be used are dramatic reading, class action dramas, mock trials, story play, sociodrama, simulations, role-play, and story telling.

  20. Extension • The final nine weeks is off to a fabulous start. Your principal informs you that he would like you to join his in-service training team. He explains your role would be to develop and implement in-service training sessions to current teachers at your school and others in the district. • You accept but realize after that you must create three different sample activities that incorporate drama and related techniques into the social studies curriculum.

  21. Extension • Develop three original activities that incorporate drama and related techniques into the social studies curriculum (6-12 level and topic of your choice). • The activities should be in engaging and informative. • Share your products with peers and/or instructor.

  22. Self-Test • What is a simulation game? • Develop an in-basket simulation game. • Describe three types of mock trials. • What is readers' theater? • What is the point of class action stories?

  23. Self-Test • Why is humor used in so many of the dramatic techniques? • What is the difference between role-play and sociodrama? • What is story play? • What are some ways in which a teacher or student can become a better storyteller? • What purposes do different dramatic activities serve in the social studies?

  24. Resources • Drake, I. (2008). Classroom simulations: Proceed with caution. Teaching Tolerance, 33,42–48. • Morris, R. (2001). Drama and authentic assessment in a social studies classroom. The Social Studies, 92(1), 41–44. • Pogrow, S. (2008). Teaching content outrageously: How to captivate all students and stimulate learning. New York: Jossie –Bass. • Simulation Games https://sites.google.com/site/gameonlearning/social-studies-ms-games

More Related