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Boiling water blows up a balloon in "The Boiling Point"
"Molecules, any chemist will tell you, have lots to teach us," begins Terry Devitt in a press release from the University of Wisconsin. "Giving voice to the lessons of molecules and other props of science, as the lamentable state of science literacy in the United States attests, is no easy task," Dewitt writes.
Describing Fusion Science Theater's approach to education, Dewitt writes: "The project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is really about creating a tool, a model program that can be adapted by teachers and others to channel basic concepts of science to young children. The idea, says Holly Walter Kerby, a Madison playwright and an MATC instructor of chemistry and creative writing/drama, is to adapt the techniques of theater - theme, character and dramatic question - to teaching science to young people."
To learn more, go to "Using Street Theater to Channel the Lessons of Molecules."