Scripts and Screws

Let your inner child out with this fun Lego activity. Suitable for grades 6th-12th, this Lego Design Challenge will truly delight your students. The Lego Design Challenge can be extended to a week long lesson plan to a one day design race. Included: RubricTeacher Resource and GuideAdded bonus... ...you get to play with Legos when the students aren't looking!

Designer Motif This project is great for introducing students to Broadway and theatrical designers. It also helps students develop a critical eye for common traits in designers. Uses for this project could include: Sub-PlansThat awkward period in-between showsBeginning or Ending of SchoolClass PresentationsEasy to expand - Usually around 1 week of class time or 3 days with homework. Can find more shows from each designer to extend length .This is also a great opportunity to introduce “te

This is a great project for design classes at any grade level 8th-12th. The Design Quad is a tool I've created to help students think beyond the normal designs. Before, when I would ask my students to design an abstract or stylized set, they became overwhelmed quickly. Now with the Design Quad, students can only make "abstract" choices for their designs. When introducing this to my 8th graders, I made them choose 2 numbers 1-8 and 2 numbers 1-10. Doing so locked in their design choices. However,

Are you tired of your students ruining your perfectly planned lessons? Do you forget what you WERE going to say before a student blurted out?! I know I am tired of being interrupted during lectures explaining the very concept the students are questioning. ...I remember the day I had the "perfect" plan to roll out QLAb to my class. IT FAILED! I was soo upset after that class! The whole time I kept hearing I CAN'T DO THIS, or WAIT! WHERE ARE WE?!, or even better THIS IS HARD, I DON'T KNOW WHAT

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