These Are the Changemakers: Performing Arts
Time: 45 minutes
Standards: Common Core ELA and CASEL
As a means of building students’ readiness for developing their own creative action projects, this lesson focuses students’ attention on successful changemakers who use the performing arts to address issues and create impact in their communities and the world at large. These featured changemakers will serve as models for the projects students will begin in an upcoming lesson.
After this lesson, students will be able to...
- reflect on the efforts of changemakers who use performing arts to make an impact.
- envision themselves as performing artists who tell a story to inspire changemaking and change in their communities or the world at large.
Guiding Questions
- Which arts fall under the umbrella of performing arts?
- How can performing arts be used to make positive change in a community?
- What can I learn about making positive change by examining the work of other creative changemakers?
- How does performing art tell a story?
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Required Materials & Technology
- Internet
- Writing paper and utensil
- “Who Are the Storytellers” handout
- “Creative Changemaking through Song” handout