K-12 Education Programs
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Residencies and Curricula
Water Dances
Water is a precious resource and necessary for life. In this movement and science based curriculum, students learn about water cycles, properties, and physics. Through movement students develop a sensitivity toward others as they widen their understanding of water issues from a local to global scale. Water Dances curriculum merges dance, science, geography and humanities.
Plastic People
This program teaches the history, chemical nature and development of plastics through interactive learning and applied creation. The relative strengths of polymers are explored in individual and group movement activities to understand creation and recycling possibilities. The complexities of single use plastics is explored, from the hazards of single use bags to life saving applications in the medical field. Student knowledge is exhibited by creating theatrical presentations and sets and costumes from upcycled target materials, such as bags, bottles, and blister packs. This curriculum merges visual and performing arts, science, and activism.
Workshops and Workshop Series
Water, Power, We
A two workshop series involves students in individual and group activities modeling the molecular nature of water, introducing environmental justice principles through the physicalization of interdependence. Adaptable for elementary students through adults, this workshop has also been given as professional development for educators and administrators. Often accompanied by a performance of Overflow.
The Polyethylene Connection
A three workshop series, one of which can be implemented by classroom teachers utilizing a curriculum guide, for grades 3-7, that physicalizes the chemical bonds used to create plastics. Students experience the relative strength of monomers and polymers, work together to model these in movement, and as a result understand what plastics are able to be recycled and which are not. Often accompanied by a performance of Plastic People of the Universe.
