Stories in the dark

Create and record an original radio play

Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 7 and 8 drama

Your students will:

• analyse the characteristics of a good radio play

• create character voices and use them to plan your own radio play

• rehearse and perform your radio play for an audience.

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.

• 4.3.1: identifies and describes elements of drama, dramatic forms, performance styles, techniques and conventions in drama.

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

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard