Exploring Water Through Story Drama

In this workshop, educators will participate in a story drama session, exactly as their students would, using the book “The Lost Drop” by Grégoire Laforce to explore the journey a single drop of water takes when traveling through the water cycle. Drama and Dance exercises will be embedded throughout the storytelling to create an immersive experience for the audience, rather than engage as passive observers. Exercises such as hot seating, soundscape, group in role, future scenarios, town council, teacher in role, moving to music, writing in role, verb chains, and more will help educators recognize ways the arts can be a vehicle for their students to synthesize and consolidate their understanding of the water cycle, water protection, interdependence of living and non-living things, and long-term human impact on the Earth and sustainability. Opportunities will be provided for professional dialogue to identify how and when certain exercises would be beneficial and effective to implement across the curriculum.