Drama in Education: Materials

Stimuli

The Internet provides a variety of stimuli that may help you plan or present your lesson. If you are looking for ideas why not type your 'theme' or 'learning area' into a search engine and see what it finds. There are too many resources to list them all but here are a few starting points.

Historical Material

• For example, if you must plan some work on a specific period in history why not try the History Search Engine
• If you are looking for a particular day in history try History Today or for worldwidfe events Scope Systems.
• If you are looking for a specific example take a look at this Battle of Hastings site.

News and Current Affairs

• National and International Newspapers
• BBC
• Compare the same article in many papers with Google News.

Images and Photographs

• Sunsite Image Finder
• Yahoo Gallery
• Altavista Image Search

Lyrics

• Lyrics Central
• Lyrics.com - excellent site but watch out for the adverts
• Music Song Lyrics - another good site but take care with adverts

Stories

• Bedtime Stories
• Stories from the Web
• Urban legends and Myths
• Reader's Theatre
• Absolutely Whootie: Sstories to grow by is a great site that collects folk and fairy stories from around the world.

Reference Works

• Dictionary.com
• Encyclopedia.com
• Infoplease
• Quoteland