Resources for Drama Teachers

Teaching drama isn't the easiest thing in the world no matter how much a teacher loves the subject. There is so much involved in teaching drama and putting up plays that it’s easy for even the most dedicated teachers to feel a little lost. Here are some links to lesson plans, lesson plan ideas, stage lighting, and even adult costumes.

• Drama Resources: Provides links to objectives, presentations, scripts, and a guide to theater basics for drama teachers.

• Drama Scripts: Has links to free drama scripts in the categories of school plays, comedies, parodies, educational plays, plays for children, and more.

• Lesson Plans By Playwright: Has links to multiple lesson plans categorized by specific playwright.

• Drama Lesson Plan Links: Offers descriptions and links to various plans for drama teachers.

• Performing Zone: Has lesson plans and lesson resources for drama teachers.

• Drama Techniques: Provides descriptions of drama techniques for drama teachers.

• Drama Lessons By Age Level: Has a listing of drama plans and ideas sorted by a child’s age level.

• Drama And Acting Resources: Resources for teaching acting and conducting drama classes.

• High School Drama Notes And Exercises: Has many drama-related exercises available for drama teachers.

• Drama Lesson Plan Exchanges: Offers lesson plans for drama teachers that focus on helping students improve their stage performance, how to display emotional intelligence, etc.

• Drama For Those Who Do Not Like Or Understand Drama: Good resource for introducing students who do not like drama, to drama.

• Creative Children's Drama: Has many great ideas for teaching young children about drama.

• Theater Lesson Plan Exchange: Has lesson plans as well as ideas for warm-up and technique improvement.

• ArtsWork Lesson Plans: Lesson plan ideas about different aspects of drama such as stage design, etc.

• Drama Lesson Plans By Grade: Lesson plans organized by grade level. The plans include ideas for reading dramatic parts, etc.

• Elementary Drama Resources: Provides links to help drama teachers with games and other classroom ideas.

• Creative Drama and Improvisation: Lesson plan for 4^th grade children. It takes them through a series of creative and confidence-building exercises. 

• 67 Theater Lesson Plans: 67 different lesson plans, organized by grade, for drama teachers that cover many different subjects.

• Lesson Plans: Pre-K - 12: Lesson plans ranging from kindergarten-age appropriate to high school lesson plans.

• Instructional Materials In Drama: Site provides practical assistance to drama teachers.

• The Costume Page: Listing of the best costume-related sites for drama teachers to use.

• Costume Resources: List of drama costume resources compiled by the University of Connecticut

• Halloween Costumes: Additional costume resource

• Set Design Resources: List of websites that is very useful for sets design for drama teachers.

• Set Construction: Explains the basics of set constructions as well as obtaining or constructing props.

• Stage Lighting 101: A guide to creating the perfect stage lighting.