The Story Ship
Sean Driscoll and his Story Ship have thrilled audiences with educational workshops and performances for over 30 years. The shows combine interactive animation, music, storytelling, theater, comedy, games, puzzles and magic. This unique combination makes their performances and workshops truly original. The Story Ship artists perform regularly throughout the United States in theaters, schools, libraries, resorts, after school programs, and festival settings. They reach thousands of children and adults each year through hundreds of residencies, workshops and performances with audiences up to 8,000 kids. They have performed over 7,000 shows!
Assembly Performance:"Aliens Alive"
The Story Ship’s science reporter, Sarah, is kidnapped by aliens while reporting live. Students help unravel celestial messages from the Aliens using math and music. Each message leads them to a new planet or solar system part. Onstage, giant video animations allow us to communicate and track Sarah’s amazing journey through our solar system. Students also compare light and sound wave motion and frequency. This show is highly interactive with audience participation every minute to two minutes.
Duration: 45-50 minutes
Grade Level: Pre-K, Elementary School
Maximum Number of Students: 400
Maximum Number of Performances: 3
Technical Requirements:
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Table 6'X2
NC Essential Standards: 2.P.1 Understand the relationship between sound and vibrating objects. 3 .E .1 .1 Recognize that the earth is part of a system called the solar system that includes the sun (a star), planets, and many moons and the earth is the third planet from the sun in our solar system.
Cost: $995 one program / $1,295 two programs (same school, same day)
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Assembly Performance:"Super Me!"
“Super Me” is a fast-paced theatrical adventure that combines high-energy hiphop dance, magic, interactive animation and a live actor. Audience members are taken on a journey into a comic book world to help a young boy escape from bullies. Amazing animated and real-life videos are projected onto a large screen during the performance allowing audience members to interact with the characters in real time. The audience must help the boy overcome obstacles and solve puzzles using their newfound superpowers. Students are taught a hip
Duration: 45-50 minutes
Grade Level: Pre-K, Elementary School
Maximum Number of Students: 400
Maximum Number of Performances: 3
Technical Requirements:
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Table 6'X2
NC Essential Standards: RED.SE.2 Understand the relationship between self and others in the broader world. RED .SE .2 .1 Identify ways of making and keeping friends . RED.C.1 Use creative strategies to make decisions and solve problems. RED .C .1 .1 Identify problems that you have encountered or are likely to encounter . RED .C .1 .2 Identify creative strategies and non-creative strategies to make decisions and to solve problems . RED.C.2 Use analytical strategies to better understand situations and make appropriate decisions. RED .C .2 .1 Identify situations from your daily life in terms of problems and solution strategies . RED .C .2 .2 Recognize situations in which peer pressure influences decisions.
Cost: $995 one program / $1,295 two programs (same school, same day)
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Assembly Performance:The Great Pirate Race
“The Great Pirate Race” combines board gaming, racing, music, magic and animation! The board game and animation are projected on to a large screen. The audience is divided into two teams. The teams are racing to get to the treasure. Each team will have to complete on stage challenges that include solving math or reading questions, solving puzzles, helping with magic tricks and team comedy challenges all held on stage with a live Pirate! THIS SHOW IS HIGHLY INTERACTIVE WITH OVER 60 OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO PARTICIPATE! Get ready for a high seas adventure.
Duration: 45-50 minutes
Grade Level: Pre-K, Elementary School
Maximum Number of Students: 400
Maximum Number of Performances: 3
Technical Requirements:
- Table 6'X2
- Two student desks
NC Essential Standards: This show is a game show designed to test the students knowledge of their grade level math standards. All math questions given during the game are taken directly from NC standardized test. The show is a great way for teachers to see how their students are doing developing their appropriate grade levels.
Cost: $995 one program / $1,295 two programs (same school, same day)
Assembly Performance:Diggery Digger's Dinosaur
While Paleontologist Diggery Diggers is showing fossils to his audience, he discovers a “top secret” box accidentally. Curious, Diggery opens the box and unleashes the DinoSauroScope 3000 or DINA taking the audience back into time to interact with dinosaurs. All is well until they use DINA on a large dinosaur egg. The egg hatches and dinosaurs in museums around the world start to come alive! The only way to stop this is to return the baby dinosaur back to his mother. Show has props including large interactive animated characters, dinosaur bones, a giant dinosaur egg and beautiful puppets.
Duration: 45-50 minutes
Grade Level: Pre-K, Elementary School
Maximum Number of Students: 400
Maximum Number of Performances: 4
Technical Requirements:
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Table 6'X2
NC Essential Standards: 1.E.2.1 Summarize the physical properties of Earth materials, properties of Earth materials that make them useful in different ways. including rocks, minerals, soils and water that make them useful in different ways. 4.E.2 Understand the use of fossils and 4.E.2.1 Compare fossils (including molds, casts, and preserved parts of plants and animals) to one another and to living organisms. Essential Standard changes in the surface of the earth as evidence of the history 4.E.2.2 Infer ideas about Earth’s early environments from fossils of of Earth and its changing life forms. plants and animals that lived long ago. 4.E.2.3 Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.North Carolina Essential Standards 3-5 Science Ecosystems
Cost: $995 one program / $1,295 two programs (same school, same day)
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