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OUT OF THE BOX CREATIVE LEARNING GUIDE MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT OUTOFTHEBOXFESTIVAL.COM.AU Gazillion Bubble Show The Science of Bubbles Gazillion Bubble Show will amaze you with mind-blowing bubble magic. Step into an interactive bubble world and be dazzled by spellbinding lasers, spectacular lighting effects, and jaw dropping masterpieces of bubble artistry. For over three decades, the Yang family have explored the fascinating unknown world of soap bubbles combining entertainment, art and science. Their imagination and experimentation has led to one of the world’s greatest family shows seen by more than 22 million people. The Gazillion Bubble Show is an un-bubble-lievable extravaganza for everyone, unlike anything seen before. It’ll blow you away! EARLY YEARS FRAMEWORK Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world. Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners. QUEENSLAND CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS THE ARTS Ways of working Create and shape art works by combining arts elements to express personal ideas, feelings and experiences; practise art works, using interpretive and technical skills. VISUAL ART Knowledge and understanding Regular, irregular, open, enclosed, overlapped and adjacent shapes are used to create categories and position. AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM v.8.1 Science: Year 2 A push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape (ACSSU033). Pose and respond to questions, make predictions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS037). Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions (ACSIS038). Visual Art: F-2 Exploring ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists (ACAVAM106). Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks (ACAVAM107). Respond to visual artworks and consider where and why people make visual artworks, starting with visual artworks from Australia, including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACAVAR109). 3+ Years AGE RANGE 3+ Years VENUE Concert Hall, QPAC COST School Groups 10+ $20pp 1 teacher free per 10 students booked BOOKINGS outoftheboxfestival.com.au/preview Refer to Festival Timetable on pp. 16-17 for available times and dates.

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Gazillion Bubble ShowThe Science of Bubbles

Gazillion Bubble Show will amaze you with mind-blowing bubble magic. Step into an interactive bubble world and be dazzled by spellbinding lasers, spectacular lighting effects, and jaw dropping masterpieces of bubble artistry. For over three decades, the Yang family have explored the fascinating unknown world of soap bubbles combining entertainment, art and science. Their imagination and experimentation has led to one of the world’s greatest family shows seen by more than 22 million people. The Gazillion Bubble Show is an un-bubble-lievable extravaganza for everyone, unlike anything seen before. It’ll blow you away!

EARLY YEARS FRAMEWORK Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world.Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners.

QUEENSLAND CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY ESSENTIAL LEARNINGS THE ARTS Ways of workingCreate and shape art works by combining arts elements to express personal ideas, feelings and experiences; practise art works, using interpretive and technical skills. VISUAL ARTKnowledge and understandingRegular, irregular, open, enclosed, overlapped and adjacent shapes are used to create categories and position.

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM v.8.1Science: Year 2A push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape (ACSSU033).Pose and respond to questions, make predictions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS037).Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions (ACSIS038).Visual Art: F-2Exploring ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists (ACAVAM106).Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks (ACAVAM107).Respond to visual artworks and consider where and why people make visual artworks, starting with visual artworks from Australia, including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (ACAVAR109).

3+ Years

AGE RANGE 3+ YearsVENUE Concert Hall, QPACCOST School Groups 10+ $20pp 1 teacher free per 10 students bookedBOOKINGS outoftheboxfestival.com.au/previewRefer to Festival Timetable on pp. 16-17 for available times and dates.

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CREATIVE LEARNING GUIDE Gazillion Bubbles will encourage students to experiment with the endless possibilities of creating with bubbles, posing questions and interacting with the performance. This could lead to discussions in Science about how an object moves or changes shape. Guided experiments to test predictions will inspire students to understand what affects the state of a gas, liquid or solid, and increase their awareness of matter. Using a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) education approach, this performance could inform and inspire across a range of subjects. In Visual Art, students could respond to the experience and describe a memorable moment in the show, focusing on the size, shape and colour used to present the bubbles. This could lead to experimenting with bubbles to create artworks, using materials such as paint or watercolours.

ART FORM FOCUS:Visual Art, Science

KEY MESSAGES:Seeing and exploring possibilities of creating and experimenting with bubbles

LEARNING OPPORTUNITY:This show will encourage students to experiment with the endless possibilities of creating with bubbles, posing questions and interacting with the performance. This could lead to discussions in Science about how an object moves or changes shape. Guided experiments to test predictions will inspire students to understand what affects the state of a gas, liquid or solid, and increase their awareness of matter. Using a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) education approach, this performance could inform and inspire across a range of subjects. In Visual Art, students could respond to the experience and describe a memorable moment in the show, focussing on the size, shape and colour used to present the bubbles. This could lead to experimenting with bubbles to create artworks, using materials such as paint or watercolour.

LEARNING ACTIVIITES:MAKING ARTWORKS WITH BUBBLES AND BALLOONS• Mix tempura paint with a small amount of both water and

washing up liquid detergent. Stir the mixture and then use a straw to blow into the mixture to create loads of bubbles. Gently place a piece of paper over the bubbles, remove it and then allow to dry. To create even more colourful artworks, layer one colour print with another using bubbles of a different colour.

• Use watercolour inks with bubble solution to blow onto watercolour paper.

• Use a blank canvas and put thumb tacks through the back of the canvas to pop the balloons as they touch the canvas to create art.

EXPERIMENTING WITH BUBBLES• Make bubble mixture using the following recipe:

4 cups water½ cup dishwashing liquid4 teaspoons glycerin

• Experiment with blowing bubbles on different surfaces such as plastic, wood, metal, paper etc.

• Hold a Bubble Olympics. Practise blowing the largest bubble you can and once the bubble has burst, measure its diameter. Repeat the activity

• and record your best measurement. Extension: calculate the volume of your largest bubble.

• Test the fragility of a bubble using wet and dry materials and record your findings and share with the class.For example:

Using a dry straw touch the bubble and it will burst. Dip the straw in water and touch the bubble, observing the effects.

• Experiment with whether a bubble always makes a sphere. Use pipe cleaners (or cookie cutter shapes) to create different wand shapes. For example:

CircleSquareTriangle Heart.

• Predict the bubble shape each wand will create and record your predictions.

• Blow bubbles with each wand shape inside and outside and record your findings next to your predictions.

• Share your findings.EXPLORING WITH SHAPES AND OBJECTS• Discuss shapes you are familiar with such as squares, circles and

triangles. Draw them in the air using your finger as an imaginary pencil (a movement technique called “Universal Writing”).

• Move around the space in different ways. For example: hoppingskippingspinningslidingcreeping.

• Freeze when the music stops.• Respond to the number and shape that your teacher calls. For

example: “Groups of four; circle”.• Create the given shape in your group, using all members in the

shape.• Allow 10 seconds to create the shape.• Observe each group.• Repeat the process using different group numbers and shapes.• Extend the participants by:

Using levels (encouraging a variety of low, medium or high shapes)Exploring the difference between shapes and objects (two-dimensional and three dimensional) and creating a sphere (circle) pyramid (triangle) and/or cube (square) as a group.

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OTHER RESOURCES

CHILDREN’S BOOKSBubble Bubble by Mercer MayerStrega Nona Takes A Vacation by Tomie de PaolaBubble Trouble by Margaret MahyBubble Homes and Fish Farts by Fiona Bayrock

CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY BOOKS (IDEAS FOR PREP TO YEAR 2)Bubbles Float, Bubbles Pop by Mark WeaklandPop! A Book About Bubbles by Kimberly BruBaker BradleyThe Ultimate Bubble Book: Soapy Science Fun by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone

WEBSITESGazillion Bubbles – Melody Yang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGMG06sd38Burl - Les bulles - Patrick Sebastien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjENijWzm1A Soap Bubble Wiki http://www.proteacher.com/redirect.php?goto=1053Giant bubbles - The Royal Institution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjX4PKBt96kBubble Artist - Kuma Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QseWXpkaGTY Painting With Bubbles http://artful-kids.com/blog/2012/02/02/3-ways-to-paint-with-bubbles/STEAM -The importance of Arts in Education, JETSpressJCHS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igu50uuGQ5Q&feature=youtu.be