In this lesson plan, students will use pantomime, research skills, and information sharing to perform as someone or something from a country around the world. The teacher "travels" from country to country guessing who/what each student represents. The plan includes a time-travel variation as well.

In this activity, students are given an index card. Each student then writes the name of a famous person or character on that card. The cards are shuffled then redistributed amongst the group. The students must become the character on the card they are given and interact with the other characters in a given scenario. While they are interacting in character, each student is also trying to figure out which student was given the character they wrote on the index card.

In this lesson plan, students are led, using narrative pantomime, to act out a story about 3 dimensional space. Following the activity, students discuss their role in this lesson, as well as their community.

In this lesson, students brainstorm possible scenarios in which fire was first discovered. They then work in groups to create a performance acting out a possible scenario in which fire was first discovered.

In this activity, the teacher shows the class a children's picture book, they read the story as a class, then act it out.

In this activity, a student volunteers to select from a pile of cards that each have a simple sentence written on them. The student's task is to communicate a full sentence to the class using only body language and gestures. If they speak, it must be in gibberish.

In this lesson/project, students create and perform a Greek tragedy play based on a familiar story from history or from fiction.

This project guides students in creating their own fairy-tale or story as a group. The lesson includes discussions on what makes a good story, character development, improv situations, and script writing.

This activity serves as an introduction to the structured use of the imagination and to the idea of a character. Students will examine their hands, then make "animal puppets" using their hands. Children then can volunteer to show their hand creation to the class.

This is a small collection of improvisation games and warmup games that can be used to sharpen up your cast if you’re a director, or to add energy and originality to your students’ acting if you are an acting teacher. All can be done with no materials in any reasonably sized space.

In this activity, three students improvise a job interview. One student is the boss asking questions, and the other two students are potential employees. While the boss is asking questions to one interviewee, the other interviewee is trying to distract the competition.

This lesson plan is a step-by-step process for making and manipulating puppets made out of paper bags.

In this activity, students create a story from movement while the teacher plays different types of music. The students create improvisations based on their body positions after the music stops and the teacher calls, "Freeze!"

In this lesson, students explore either historical periods or current events by choosing a news story from that time and acting out the events from that story.

In this lesson plan, students become objects found in a room then must explain why they shouldn't be thrown out, without saying specifically what they are. Students use pantomime and critical thinking skills to work as a group and explain their importance in the room. This lesson plan also includes variations of the game including immigration, parts of the body, the rainforest, books, states, etc.

In this activity, students pantomime an element from a nursery rhyme and the class tries to guess which nursery rhyme it's from.

In this activity, young students use their imagination to paint a box during a narrative pantomime led by the teacher. After "painting their box" students share their work with each other.

In this activity, young students use imagination to "paint" what they hear in the music that is played aloud. Afterwards, students are encouaged to "hang" their painting on the wall and discuss what they heard and painted.

In this lesson, students create masks out of paper. The masks are then used when improvising various scenarios. The task is to learn how to act and communicate without use of facial expressions.

In this lesson, students discuss rituals from different cultures and how those rituals are performed and used. They then work independently to create a ritual of their own to perform in class. Each ritual must be created with a specific purpose in mind such as getting an A on the next test or "becoming a man."