Integrating Social-Emotional Learning into Arts Education

Dramatize a script: A Tree's Feelings (McCue 2010)

Ask students to dramatize how a tree would "feel," using large and small muscle movements to move like a tree under the following conditions:

a gentle spring breeze
a violent autumn windstorm
pelting rain
a summer forest fire
having bare limbs in the winter
a squirrel running up its trunk
a bird nesting in its branches
a person climbing it
someone cutting it down

In my classroom I plan to integrate social-emotional learning activities throughout some of my lessons in various subjects. In this activity, students will learn about social-responsibility and develop care for the environment while learning about aspects of drama. This is a simply activity and it is displayed below for educators to implement in their own classrooms with their students.