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1 EDUCATION GUIDE Tuesday, March 24, :30am and 12:30pm Tickets: $5.50 per person Recommended for Gradess K through 3 ABT Student Matinee seriess sponsored by Alberta Bair Theater for the Performing Arts 2801 Third Avenue North Billings, Montana

2 What is ImaginOcean? ImaginOcean is a live glow in the dark musical about three best friends who just happen to be fish. Tank, Bubbles and Dorsal, are playing a game of bubble ball when the ball floats away bumping into some coral. A treasure map is revealed and our trio of friends have to find three medals on their way searching for the treasure! As they search the ocean for clues they meet a whole bunch of new friends including jellyfish, a seahorse and an octopus not to mention everyone in our audience! John Tartaglia s ImaginOcean is jam packed with fun, magic and music ranging from R&B to Big Band. In the end, our friends all learn that the greatest treasure of all is the gift of friendship. What is Black Light? John Tartaglia s ImaginOcean is performed using a special art form called black light puppetry. This technique uses black light also called ultraviolet light to highlight the puppets, props and nearby surfaces and cause them to glow and controlling what the audience sees. The puppets, props and nearby surfaces are all coated colors which are very bright or florescent. Black light allows the puppeteers, all of whom are dressed in black, to remain unseen while their glowing florescent puppets are fully visible to the human eye. Black light isn t just used in entertainment. There are many other everyday uses for black light.

3 The Ocean: A Unique World Unto Itself There is one ocean that covers 70% of the entiree planet. Different land masses or continents divide up the ocean into smaller bodies of water. These 5 different bodies of water are the Artic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans. Other bodies of water that are partly closed off by land are called gulfs and seas. Filled with millions of unique and wondrous plants and animals, oceans provide food for much of the earth s population. It Takes Teamwork During their adventure, Dorsel, Bubbles and Tank learn that through cooperation and teamwork they can accomplish anything. In the beginning of the musical, thee trio joins together to help save a jellyfish who is caught under a rock. Although Tank doesn't succeed during the first couple of tries, he remains persistentt and, with the help of Bubbles and Dorsel, managess to lift the rock and free the jellyfish. The determination of the group to help the jellyfish allowed them to not only achieve their goal but to also make a new friend in the process. Along with Teamwork... While cooperation, teamwork, determination, friendship andd respect for others are major themes in the musical, the character traits of courage, imagination and strength are also important and help to define our central characters. Following are real life examples of courage, imagination and strength. Having the Courage Fire fighters and police officers show courage and bravery in their jobs. Fire fighters do all kinds of things from helping to save the lives of people trapped in burning buildings to rescuing a cat from a tree. Police officers help to keep peace in our towns and keep bad peoplee from doing harm to others. In both cases, society could not do without thesee brave heroes and the sacrifices that they make each and every day.

4 Bubbles used her wonderful imagination to help Dorsel and Tank find the medals. The following two people also used their imaginations to create incredible things! J.K. Rowling While riding a train in 1990, J.K. Rowling daydreamed about a boy named Harry Potter who was a wizard. For the next 6 years she wrote the book much of which was written on pieces of scrap paper. She typed up a few copies, and sent it to two agents and one publishing company. One of the agents that she picked at random, loved the book and signed her on within three days. Several publishing companies turned her book down, before it was finally published in The first book made her enough money to get by on and she worked very hard writing the rest of the Harry Potter series, which totals 7 books in all. Jim Henson When he was still a college freshman, a local television station asked Jim Henson to create a five minute puppet show called Sam and Friends and the program was a hit. This show included Henson s Kermit the Frog puppet character and even in these short programs Jim Henson experimented with innovative puppetry by using new camera angles and lifelike puppet fabrics. His puppets were unique as they expressed emotion. For example, the puppets hands were expressive and flexible as they featured rods inside them and were not stiffly controlled by the usual marionette strings. His puppets became known as Muppets and were featured on television s Sesame Street. WEBSITES WORLD ATLAS KIDS FOR SAVING EARTH MAC GILLIVRAY FREEMAN S CORAL REEF ADVENTURE ENCHANGED LEARNING GLOBAL ONENESS NBC 10 Philadelphia NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY BLACKLIGHTWORLD.COM Ultraviolet Light and Black Light: A Beginner s Guide by David Rudd Cycleback, OCEAN CONSERVATION WEBSITES OCEAN CONSERVATION SOCIETY PROTECT PLANET OCEAN THE OCEAN PROJECT

5 Curriculum Connections and Activities for Grades 2 and 3 Grade 2 and Fossils In class, review how fossils are formed, and match each fossil picture to its original sea-faring organism. A B C D 1. Stingray 2. Starfish 3. Shark 4. Seahorse Grade 3 and Adaptations Have the students explain how the following characteristics on this list of marine animals are adapted to a specific environment: Pelican (beak and feet) Dolphin (flippers and blowhole) Sea Turtle (legs and shell) Elephant Seal (blubber and flippers Hammer Head Shark (head shape and eyes) Sail Fish (fins and body shape) Star Fish (appendages and suction cups) Snail (antennae/feeler, shell and foot)

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9 Student Evaluation Form ImaginOceann NAME: GRADE: TEACHER: SCHOOL: 1. Which of the animals did you like the best? Why did you like this animal? a. Dorsel: b. Tank: c. Bubbles: d. Leonard: e. Ripple: 2. Did you like this show? What was your favorite part of the show? 3. What was the most unusual or interesting part of thee show? 4. Have you seen other showss at the ABT? YES NO 5. If you have seen other shows at the ABT, which one was your favorite and why?

10 Teacher Evaluation Form ImaginOcean NAME: SUBJECT OR CONTENT: GRADE LEVEL: 1. Were your younger students able to use the activities (1 through 3) provided in the ImaginOcean study packets? 2. Do you feel that the activities packet was useful in preparing your students for the ImaginOcean matinee? Were your students able to complete the (attached) student evaluation form to your satisfaction? Why or why not? 3. From your instructional vantage point, describe the types of future ABT programming that would directly benefit you and your students in the following categories: (Please select as many categories that may apply and give a brief example or examples.) Mathematics: Life Sciences: Social Studies: Language Arts: General Science: Physical Science: Advanced Mathematics: Foreign Language: World History: Geography: Physical Education: Other: Please return this form and your student evaluations to: Dr. William M. Mouat Director of Education and Community Outreach Alberta Bair Theater P.O. Box 1556 Billings, MT wmouat@albertabairtheater.org