AC9ADR4C01
Years 3 to 4
The Arts
AC9ADR4C01 | Years 3 to 4 Drama: Drama
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor improvise and/or devise and shape drama using the elements of drama to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
Strand
Creating and making
Substrand
Drama
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 3 to 4 Drama. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration using learning from explorations of drama that communicate First Nations Australians’ connection to and responsibility for Country/Place to devise drama that communicates their own connection to and responsibility for place; for example, devising drama that communicates their feelings about a “favourite” place or shows how they care for a place in their community
- • Elaboration creating drama by exploring and experiencing a range of roles and situations that they initiate and develop; for example, exploring roles and situations in a “miniature world”
- • Elaboration improvising drama to explore issues and ideas, considering how empathy can assist them to take on roles, accept situations and “stand in the shoes” of another; for example, comparing their own and their peers’ responses to “everyday” interactions or imagining themselves as participants in an event that is happening or happened in another time or place
- • Elaboration devising dialogue for a previously “wordless story” or devising dramatic action/movement for a story they know only through spoken (audio) sources
- • Elaboration using the elements of drama and the principles of story to shape improvisations to communicate their intentions as drama makers; for example, establishing time and place, and the roles and characters in the drama
- • Elaboration working in groups to devise sections of a drama (for example, using process drama strategies) and then, working as a class, using a guided play-building process to combine the sections
- • Elaboration communicating with an audience their connection to and responsibility for Country/Place by Acknowledging Country before a performance or presentation, taking care to observe protocols and using resources created or co-created by First Nations Australians, and/or by participating with Elders in a Welcome to Country (as appropriate)
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Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 4, students describe use of selected elements of drama in drama they experience, create and/or perform.See it on the standard page →
- Students use selected elements of drama when creating drama and/or performing.See it on the standard page →
- They collaborate to improvise and/or devise drama that communicates ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.See it on the standard page →
- By the end of Year 4, students describe use of elements, concepts and/or conventions in arts works they create and/or experience.See it on the standard page →
- Students use arts knowledge and skills to create arts works in a range of forms that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.See it on the standard page →
Read the full Years 3 to 4 Drama achievement standard
Read the full Years 3 to 4 Arts (all subjects) achievement standard