5E Lesson Plan

Teacher(s): Cameron Harrison

Date: December 13, 2021
Subject / grade level: Theater, Kindergarten
Materials: Empty tissue boxes, paper towel rolls, paper lunch bags, colored pencils, crayons, popsicle sticks, yarn, pasta,
glue sticks, googly eyes, puffy paint, feathers, colored paper, and/or scissors.

State Standards: TH:Cr1.1.K.

a. With prompting and support, invent and inhabit an imaginary elsewhere in dramatic play or a guided drama
experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).
b. With prompting and support, non-representational materials to create props, puppets, and costume pieces for
dramatic play or a guided drama experience (e.g., process drama, story drama, creative drama).

Lesson objective(s):
 Students will be able to create costume pieces and prop that will help them in telling out the story to the rest of
the class.
 By the end of the lesson students will have learned that with their imagination anything can be made into a
unique prop or costume piece to help them tell/show the story that they see in their imagination.

Differentiation/Accommodation strategies to meet diverse learner needs:

 Smaller materials to fit their hands
 Accept approximate expressions to tell a story (pointing at objects for those who have trouble communicating)
ENGAGEMENT
 I will capture my student’s interests by choosing a story drama that is fun, playful, silly, and has a theme that is
geared towards the age of kindergarteners.
 The kind of questions that my students should ask themselves afterwards was if they had fun, if they learned how
to tell a story with everyday objects, and if they were able to see themselves in the story.

EXPLORATION
 The hands-on part of this activity is that students will be able to create puppets, costume pieces, and props that
will help them feel like they are in the story. They can use these to feel like they are a part of the tale and that
they were a character in the story drama.
 Big idea questions that I will use to help them engage in the lesson is – If you were a character in this story
drama what would you look like? What kind of character would you want to be? Are you a person, an animal, are
you small, are you big, and etc.?

EXPLANATION
 A technique that I would use to help them connect their ideas to the lesson is that I would make my own puppet,
props, costume piece to help them see what possible things they can create out of these craft items.
 The higher learning questions that I would use are - How can they use these items to help express themselves in
the story? What ways can they better express their feelings with the use of these props and their imaginations?

ELABORATION
 Students will develop a better understanding with the help of having hands on use of their imaginations.

1
 5E Lesson Plan

 New vocabulary that will be introduced to students is – props, expression, imagination, craft, and personalized.
 This knowledge is used in their daily lives by showing different options to express themselves more clearly.

EVALUATION
 Students will show they have achieved this lesson objective by showing that they an tell a story with the materials
supplied.
 What should be embedded throughout this lesson is what different things can be created with the same materials
and a heavy emphasis on personalization.