Virtual Activities

Want to engage your students in a literacy-based activity using drama strategies to engage students in character creation?  In this lesson designed by Spark Curriculum Specialist Katie Mixon, students will listen to a story about a young girl running for student council at her school and then create and share a brand new character using their body, voice and ideas. Learn More.

Want to immerse your students in a Visual Art activity that engages both their creative writing and visual art skills? In this lesson, designed collaboratively by Visual Arts Teaching Artist/Field Trips Coordinator Daphne Cuadrado Andino and Poetry Instructor Emily Cinquemani, students will learn about how poets create calligram poetry. We will also look at how artists can use shapes to communicate feelings or ideas. Students will then spend time writing their poem and selecting a shape that best fits their poem. Learn more.

Want to engage your students in movement as they learn physics? In this lesson, designed by Assistant Director of Outreach, Kellianne Floyd, students will learn how physics connects to dance in relationship to force, momentum, motion and inertia.  Students will discuss where they have seen force and motion in their everyday lives.  They will then look at Laban’s effort actions and how momentum, motion, inertia and movement contribute to ways they can create movement.  Students will use these concepts to explore various ways to move using the dance elements, create a dance phrase and perform their dance phrase. Learn more.

Join our Music Teaching Artist, Jeff Vaughn, in a resource focused on Batucada, a style of music originating from Brazil, and feel the beat of the Carnival do Brazil right from your desk. In this activity, students will explore the beginnings of Samba, the parading groups of Rio, and select instruments from the Batucada - learning basic rhythm patterns for each instrument. Also included are examples for crafting sample versions of instruments with repurposed materials, allowing each group to assemble, decorate and perform their own unique Desktop Batucada! Learn More.

Join two of our Drama Faculty members, Conner Vetter and Erin Gill, in a Drama resource focusing on the concept of devised theatre. Students will use tableaux and their knowledge of story structure to try their hand at devising, while exploring situations that will be used in the SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities' upcoming Devised performance April 4-6, 2025.  Learn more.