Benefits of using drama activities in the classroom

Child’s personal development

• Group participation develops  in their own ideas.
• Unscripted, imaginative activities allow children to take .

Child’s educational development

• Working as a group teaches the importance of  to others.
• Performing makes children  for their learning and behavior.

Role-play can be used:

• as a form of  for children experiencing problems

• to help children be objective about their behaviour problems

• to explore controversial issues with a class in a  environment
• to explore children’s self-knowledge and understanding of 

Advantages of using role-play in the study of history

• Drama activities increase children’s  in class
• Makes it easier for children to  and understand historical events
• Can find answers to  in history to see why certain decisions were made