Applicable Unit Essential Questions

How can using puppets help students learn the importance of recycling?   How can your personal experiences, heritage, imagination, literature, and history help you create improvisations and scripted scenes?   How can you create improvisations (individually and in groups) and write scripts (individually) using characters, environment, dialogue and action?   How can puppets be utilized to enhance a theatrical presentation?

SC Academic Standards

I.              Story making and script writing. Script writing by the creation of improvisations and scripted scenes based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.   VI. Connecting. Comparing and incorporating art forms by analyzing methods of presentation and audience response for theatre, dramatic media and other art forms.   II. Acting. Acting by developing basic skills to portray characters who interact in improvised and scripted scenes.

Lesson Segment	Instructional Strategies	Teacher Activities	Student Tasks
	Discussion Writing Connecting Prior Knowledge Cooperative Learning Movement Role Playing	The teacher will lead a discussion on the importance on recycling. Tell students that they are going to write a short script about recycling. Tell students that next week they will use the puppet they made in art class to perform their skit.	Students will begin writing a short script on saving the planet by recycling used materials. Students will perform their skit with the puppet they created in art class.

Materials and Resources

Puppets Pencil paper