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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.

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.

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

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.

BINGO is a simple yet fun activity for classes to shake off learning. This activity goes along with the "Sound Design in Theatre" presentation, but could be a stand alone activity for your classes. In the presentation are the sound effects and a worksheet. Print out the BINGO worksheet, and randomly click given sound effects for students to recognize sounds. Expand yourself with youtube sound effects or have your students challenge each other to guess the sounds.

A Stage Manager is the a second in command following a show director. This presentation introduces Stage Management, and is filled with a practice activity as well as 3 main assignments with worksheets. The activity and assignments are separate. It is best to purchase this as a Bundle which will keep your class engaged for 3-5 classes.

Theatre Lighting is a beautiful element for shows, and sometimes the last thing teachers plan, so let the students thrive and be their own lighting designers! No theatre? No Problem! I explain ways to learn lighting with or without a theatre space. This powerpoint discusses basics of lighting instruments, hanging instruments, colors, angles, and electricity. There are 5 activities to participate in and numerous videos to watch. IMPORTANT- 2 of the 5 activities can be found on my page for a few

One of the most challenging topics in theatre is Rigging (the items above our head and how to hang scenery). It is a topic CTE tests wants you to teach, but there aren't any classes out there to learn from. This is an introduction powerpoint to rigging supplies, set up, videos, and activities. If you do not have any of the correct rigging supplies, there are still 2 activities you can participate in to learn. Worksheets to also purchase: - Hardware Image Activity-- If you do not have rigging