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Stage Management is a technical theatre element that traditionally is for the leaders and organized students in your class. Why? Because it involves paperwork, reading, focusing, and taking charge of other students. But Don't Worry! I added the fun and creativity to these lessons to keep your students focused for a 5+ day Unit! The pros to Stage Management is that you can integrate Reading, Writing, and Public Speaking strategies into your activities creating a well rounded student. This bundle

Give your students a fun and tasty activity while learning the physics of color theory! Stage Lighting Design affects pigments of color in costume and scenery, and occasionally makeup and props. Let them learn about the affects of lighting color and pigment color using M & Ms (or skittles for some). In addition, I added a second activity to analyze, discuss, and reflect as a lighting designer for Broadway shows choosing colors to use onstage. This assignment has 2 worksheets for the student ac

Starting your Tech Theatre units, but just want a sample of each to entice your students? This presentation welcomes students to each of the elements of technical theatre, sends you to a sample video for sneak peaks into technical theatre, and concludes your work with a worksheet connecting theatre to their everyday lives.

Theatre Lighting is a beautiful element for shows, and sometimes the last thing teachers plan, so let the students thrive and be the lighting designers! No theatre? No Problem! I explain ways to learn lighting with or without a theatre space. Included: - Powerpoint presentation introducing lighting, instruments, hang and focus, color, angles, and electricity. - An M & M activity - A Flashlight activity. Feedback always welcomed, thank you!

Don't worry about your first days in the theatre shop! This Bundle will safely introduce your students to the hardware, tools, and supplies used in the theatre shop. There are a variety of videos samples, small math problems, step by step visuals for the 2 activities, and an added online (or field trip) Hardware store activity. This Bundle includes the following TPT lessons:- Hardware, Tools, and Materials Presentation - Tool Supply Organization Activity - Create a Mini Flat Activity - Hardware

Here is a bundle from an introduction to an advanced Theatre Counterweight and Rigging System! Don't be afraid if you don't have a true theatre system. I have included activities for schools with and without a full theatre. All together, these lessons could take 1 week to 1 and 1/2 weeks. Enjoy!

If you are looking for students to make safer choices in technical theatre spaces, this introduction powerpoint is perfect for you and your students. Students feel proud to recognize the safe choices to make, but also find many unsafe choices that they often make or have seen people make. To conclude, I have added the link to videos myself and another teacher made to see dangerous situations. Students can watch and evaluate the dangerous choices made.

This is a BUNDLE of the sound design presentation and two activities. Sound design can be a creative outlet for student artists, and is perfect for students who like everything being straight forward and organized. This introduction to sound design presentation is split between how to control sound and how to make sound. - Controlling sound through technology, cables, microphones, and speakers. - Creating sound through live recordings, online free apps, and items all around you. There is no need

If you aren't ready for your theatre students to use power tools to build quite yet, here is a nice introduction to measuring and cutting lumber. The end result will be students making a mini 4 inch by 8 inch theatre flat. (Real life flats are traditionally 4ft by 8 ft.) Print the handout exactly or else the measurements will be slightly off. You can test this out by printing and measuring the large rectangle plywood piece, which should be 4 inches by 8 inches. You can find the exact steps and

Introduce your theatre students to theatrical painting with this lesson and painting activity. This lesson is perfect before preparing to paint a set for your show, or just to get their hands dirty making some sample art. You will be introduced to painting techniques, painting styles, parts of a brush, safety with painting, and conclude with a painting project that could be as simple or as large as you'd like.

Costume design is great to find your artists, future fashion designers, and students who truly care about what they wear to school. Connect with them showing them a topic that they can design for in your theatre performances. This is a bundle of all the costume design activities in the costume powerpoint.

A costume rendering, also known as a croqui design, is the beginning of a designer creating a costume design. This 2 page worksheet has a male and female body with space for answering questions about the character they are designing. Use this with a play you are reading, a character from a movie, or a new character that they invent for an activity. Find this activity in my Costume Design Powerpoint.

Sound design can be a creative outlet for student artists, and is perfect for students who like everything being straight forward and organized. This introduction to sound design presentation is split between how to control sound and how to make sound. - Controlling sound through technology, cables, microphones, and speakers. - Creating sound through live recordings, online free apps, and items all around you. There is no need to have all items in your own space. Numerous videos and website l

Instead of showing pictures of other theatres, curtains, and set designs, why not have students make their own! Using supplies you can find in the pantry like cardboard boxes and straws, make a mini theatre to learn about the parts of the stage, curtains, and set design. All pages are ready to print cut out, glue on cardboard, and build. No need to resize the design.

Are you in need of a unit that is only a few days long, but one of their most loved topics? Then it's time to teach about Props! Props are so small yet so important for performances. This unit introduces students to the types of props, has students create a prop table and use their creativity for storytelling with props, and ends with a small props table competition. Included are 2 videos for props and the props competition. Not included- Sort the Props Activity. This can be found in my product

This short and sweet murder mystery scene is filled with sound cues for students to research sound files online and tell the story. This activity is part of the "Sound Design for Theatre" presentation and could be a stand alone activity for your class. Have students use YouTube or Freesound.org (or another site) to locate the sounds they would use for the required cues in a theatre performance. Finally, have students perform the scene, pausing for the sounds to play.

This worksheet goes along with the Intro to Technical Theatre Powerpoint. It is the conclusion as we compare technical theatre with our everyday lives.

A theatre shop with 30+ students working can feel stressful for a teacher, so if you are worried about welcoming your theatre students into the shop, this is a great introduction to the hardware, tools, and materials used. Don't worry! They aren't putting tools in their hand quite yet! Just a few practice paper samples before we put the real items into their hands! This is great if you do not have a shop or tools to teach from. This presentation introduces students to:- a tour of a sample shop

Student's arms, hands, and bodies are naturally awkward when performing onstage. Help your students feel confident making bigger choices when performing theatre, This presentation introduces students to the 4 main physical techniques for theater: blocking, gestures, facial expressions, and stage business. It includes 4 small activities with each vocab, 2 medium activities with handouts, a few Youtube videos**, and concludes with a final pantomime performance. ** One video has a reference you mi

When it is time to perform or be asked to speak, students naturally get quiet, shy, and monotonous. Help your students feel confident making bigger vocal choices when in a theatre performance. This presentation introduces students to the 5 main voice techniques for theater, 2 small activities with a handout, 1 medium activity with a handout, and concludes with a final poem or short story performance.