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Using Improv to Teach STEM, Core Area Content, and Non-Arts Subjects

Assembly/Performance ; Day Trip ; Out-of-School-Time ; Professional Development ; Residency ; Workshop

Get more “bang for your buck” using applied improv as a vehicle for learning, especially to reach non-traditional learners or to teach difficult concepts. Examples: Number Families with Applied Improv The Water Cycle with Applied Improv Prepositions with Applied Improv Listening and Collaboration with Applied Improv We use all the “tools in the improvisational theatre toolbox” to bring your non-arts subject matter to life.

Welcome to Zakland! (Performances/Workshops/Residencies)

Out-of-School-Time

Concerts are focused on students PreK-5th grade. Educational concerts offer two study guides with activities for both music education and arts integration with other subjects. In addition, teachers can access thirteen interactie lessons for classroom use at a variety of grade levels. Creative writing workshops and residency (story and song) are offered for grades PreK-5th. They involve students in examining the elements of a good story, delving into rhyme schemes and literary devices and exploring the power of the imagination using music and storytelling. The creative writing residency uses music and storytelling to exercise the imagination and encourage reading with the students. Over the course of the sessions, students learn the basic elements of a good story, create their own story and turn their story into a joint classroom song. Zak will record the students’ songs and make them available to the school and students via a link, so they can be posted on the school website/Facebook page and so each student will have access to them at home to share with their families. The residendy week usually concludes with an all-school Zak Morgan performance and an evening performance for families, where the each class performs their own song onstage.

Wit, Whimsy & Word Play with Musician Roger Day (Performances/Workshops/Residencies)

Out-of-School-Time

Educational concerts of Roger’s original children’s music for PreK-6th grade students feature original songs from Roger’s CDs. Students learn new languages from songs that tour the world & join in the concert with body motions & supporting vocals while touring through Tibet, the Congo, the Tropics, & even their own backyard. INVINCIBLE! encourages and empowers young super heroes everywhere to solve the problem and save the day by using the greatest super powers of all – reading and imagination! DREAM BIG! encourages students to set goals, us their creativity and imagination and strive toward BIG dreams. In Roger’s concert SHAKE UP YOUR BRAIN!, Roger’s songs encourage students that they have all the answers they need – right now – inside their brains. They’ll learn which side of the brain loves to “do the math” to what foods make us smarter. Roger Day’s songs are rich in facts, new language, locales, and experiences for families and preschool and elementary children. In his concert MARSH MUD MADNESS Roger takes the audience on an original, highly interactive musical journey up and down the amazing seacoast of the southeastern U.S. With Roger’s assistance, the audience will step knee deep in oozy marsh mud; marvel at the mysterious journey of the loggerhead turtle; learn the secretive ways of the ghost crab; and be on the watch for vulture vomit! Roger will introduce some very colorful characters who live in and around the barrier islands, and in the process the audience will learn about the important role each of them play in maintaining a healthy coastal ecosystem. Roger’s concerts are action-filled adventures that exercise both mind AND muscle; both body AND brain. Roger Day keeps his young audiences involved and captivated. His infectiously-fun concerts inspire each child to discover his and her own talents, give flight to the imagination, to DREAM BIG! and SHAKE UP YOUR BRAIN!

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