This is Jennifer Gonzales welcoming you to episode 234 of the cult to pedagogy podcast in this episode. We're going to learn about four fun theater games you can play to make any subject come to life.

About five years ago I did an episode all about the importance of movement in learning.

If you want to listen it was episode 119.

The basic gist is that students learn better when

movement is added to a lesson in some way. There's a lot of research behind this.

It can be purposeful movement that actually has a connection to the material being studied,

like gestures and pantomime that represents pieces of the content.

Or it can just be general movement added in to break up the monotony of sitting for too long.

The episode covers all that research and offers lots of easy fun ways to build movement into your instruction.

If you haven't heard it or read it and you're looking at it, to build movement into your instruction.

If you haven't heard it or read it

and you're looking for something to energize your lessons,

I would recommend you check it out.

Today's episode fits right in with those ideas. I'm talking with Jocelyn Green, a theater

educator who runs an organization in New York called Child's Play, which offers

theater classes, camps, and residences in schools.

Part of their work includes going into classrooms and playing games that get kids up on their

feet, improvising, and playing their way through various scenarios.

Quite a few of these games are the kind that can work really well

with any kind of academic content,

giving students an opportunity to apply what they're learning

and process it in fun and

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