@The Arts Unit Creative Classes

Lip-sync challenge

Teacher notes

Develop expressive movement skills through the exploration of character, rhythm, sound and tension

Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 7 and 8 drama

What will your students learn?

Your students will:

  • explore expressive movement

  • create a character using facial expressions, gestures and rhythm

  • rehearse and perform a lip-sync challenge

  • reflect on their performance skills.

Syllabus outcomes

Drama 7-10 Syllabus

  • 4.1.3: devises and enacts drama using scripted and unscripted material.

  • 4.2.1: uses performance skills to communicate dramatic meaning.

  • 4.3.2: recognises the function of drama and theatre in reflecting social and cultural aspects of human experience.

Suggestions for how to use this resource with your students

Students will develop expressive movement skills to perform a lip-sync challenge.

They will explore character, rhythm, movement, sound and tension and reflect on their own performance skills.

This lesson can be linked to the following @The Arts Unit Creative Classes:

You may like to use this video from Jamie at Cosmic Yoga as inspiration for a group warm-up which you could run with the whole class before starting Activity 1.

Mm-Thh went the little green frog one day

Mm-Thh went the little green frog

Mm-Thh went the little green frog one day

And they all went Mm-Thh-Aahhh

But we all know frogs go (clap) la-da-da-da

We all know frogs go (clap) la-da-da-da

They don’t go Mm-Thh-Aahhh.

Jaime's Brain Breaks – Little Green Frog

Duration: 03:14

Collection of student work

  • Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.

  • Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.

  • MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.

  • Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.

  • Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

  • Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.

For further support on how to create these resources

Offline access

Download and print this document to send to students with limited access to online resources.

Lip sync challenge - @The Arts Unit Creative Classes.docx

Would you like to promote your school and showcase your students' work as a result of engaging in this Creative Class?

Help us celebrate the fantastic work of NSW public school students by emailing photos or videos that you have permission to share and comments on how your students enjoyed the class to digital.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au.

Please include the Creative Class title and your school name in the email so we can share on The Arts Unit social media and our website.

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