Acting like animals!

Explore characterisation through animals

Student drama resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 3 and 4 drama 

Your students will:

• explore and create roles 

• respond imaginatively 

• perform to communicate dramatic meaning.

Creative Arts K–6 Syllabus

• DRAS2.1: takes on and sustains roles in a variety of drama forms to express meaning in a wide range of imagined situations.

• DRAS2.4: responds to, and interprets drama experiences and performances.

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 for 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