Creative Educational Systems

Description of this Script:Duration: 50-60 minutes Genre: comedy with optional music. Cast Size: 1 male lead, 2 any gender, many supporting roles, expandable animal choruses. Grade level: 1st-5th gr. (or m.s., h.s. or adult, esp. when playing for a children's audience; also can be intergenerational). Production ideas: included at the back. Thematic curriculum ideas: included at the back. Songs: optional, suggested Synopsis of the Story:A group of people loses the baby of one of their womenfolk w

Should science be dry and technical? See the lives of three of the world's most famous astronomers, Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton, come alive through drama. Your cast will enjoy performing as each character battles the forces of ignorance and prejudice as they present new ideas in science to a skeptical world. Synopsis:Astronomers of the Renaissance includes three scenes. In the first scene, we find Nicholas Copernicus working in his library at the top of a church to

Young science students will thrill to the clash of ideas about the nature of the universe presented here in play form, which they can act out. As the ancient Greek astronomers debate whether the sun or the earth is the center of the universe, the evolution of scientific thought comes to life for the actors who are performing and watching this play. Synopsis:At the meeting of the Athens (Greece) Astronomical Society, the hostess anxiously presents their most famous guest speaker of all time, the

Is there a better way to get an experiential understanding of Native American folklore than by performing one of its tales? And one of the most colorful characters, bound to bring laughter to the performers and audience alike, is the Native American trickster Coyote. This story explains the origin of the blue bonnet flowers and will delight and instruct both audience and cast with a good moral. Synopsis:Coyote and the Blue Flowers is a variation on the legend of how the blue bonnet flowers were