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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

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.

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.

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

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.

We all go to the stores and look for our size shirt, pants, and shoes, but most people don't know how these measurements are decided and how to take clothing measurements. Using a printed paper or a plastic tape measurer, and with descriptions of how to take different measurements, partners will measure each other's body. I suggest you let the students have the opportunity to skip certain measurements for body issues, or for being uncomfortable with others in close proximity. Find this activit

If you are just introducing your students to theatre lighting, and maybe you don't have your own stage lighting, this is a fun 1 class period activity! Using flashlights, gel books or gel sheets, a dark space, given images, and a worksheet, you can have students pretend to be a designer before they go and break a light instead of a leg. Included is the worksheet, directions, and a variety of images.

Heading to the shop, and want your students to follow along with steps to using shop power tools? The Job Operations Sheets are perfect for you all! The Jigsaw could be a scary tool for students, but they will feel more comfortable as they have directions of what to expect next. Have them practice cutting shapes like waves, circles, and anything that has turns. The steps include: Preparation, Operation, and Clean up. They are easy to follow along and have a few suggestions and hints. Check out t

Heading to the shop, and want your students to follow along with steps to using shop power tools? The Job Operations Sheets are perfect for you all! The drill is a classic tool that students should learn how to use. Have them practice drilling in a screw and pre-drill for a longer screw. The steps include: Preparation, Operation, and Clean up. They are easy to follow along and have a few suggestions and hints. Check out the other tool paperwork such as: Table Saw, Circular Saw, Jigsaw, and Miter

Have fun making costumes with newspaper, tape, and a design. This handout is only a variety of sketches that have intricate design options, and not your classic dress, vest, or pants. The task is simple- groups are given a stack of newspaper, tape, and a design. A fashion show with music is always a great way to end the activity! Find this activity in my Costume Design Powerpoint.