Environmental Plays and Rallies
Two assembly styles designed for different audience sizes and needs.
For over 40 years, CLIMB has been partnering with cities, counties and other organizations to bring environmental outreach programming into their communities in an entertaining and educational way. We have performed in schools, parks, libraries, and even on the ice! We work closely with environmental leaders to discover what skills and knowledge need to be reinforced through environmental programming in their particular area.
Plays
Theatrical assemblies for up to 350 students.
Make a Splash!
Environmental Conservation for Lower Elementary
Written by Caitlin Featherstone
When Gil meets a beautiful mermaid during his family vacation to the beach, he can’t wait to hear all about the exciting adventures of a life lived under the sea. But Coral the Mermaid’s ocean home is in trouble, and it’s up to Gil and the school of fish to help save the day! Life is the bubbles when we find ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and keep our waters clean. In this interactive, under-the-sea adventure, students will learn that, when it comes to taking care of our earth, if we all do our part, even kids can make a splash!
- To define reusing, reducing, and recycling
- To distinguish between items that can be reused, reduced, and recycled and items that cannot
- To help students understand why we shouldn’t just throw everything in the garbage can
- To encourage students to care for the environment
- To emphasize the importance of keeping our lakes and oceans clean
- To encourage environmental responsibility and feelings of Ownership and Empathy towards the environment
Ownership and Empathy
Suddenly, Save More!
Environmental Conservation for Upper Elementary
Written by Heather Meyer
5th grader Ferris has no idea what he’s going to present for his school project about the environment. When his prized potted plant starts talking, singing, and teaching him all about environmental conservation, it seems like his A+ is in the bag! That is, until he finds out the peril our environment is in and his sister thinks he’s making the whole thing up, and… wait, is the talking plant trying to take over the world?! Come along with Ferris to learn all about reducing, reusing, recycling, and saving the planet (in more ways than one). This show is sure to plant the seeds of environmental responsibility and help students’ learning grow!
- To emphasize the importance of taking environmental responsibility
- To foster feelings of Ownership and Empathy towards the environment
- To explain the negative consequences of excess waste and water usage
- To define reducing, reusing, and recycling as a possible solution to minimizing waste production
- To help students understand potential negative side effects of AI
- To teach what the importance of water conservation and cleanliness
- To provide students with the distinction between renewable and non-renewable resources
Ownership and Empathy
Rallies
Interactive, presentational assemblies for up to 350 students.
Adventures of the Elemental
For Upper Elementary
Written & directed by Caitlin Featherstone
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s the Elemental! The Elemental is ready to teach students about any environmental topic, using group games and other activities to engage the audience. Recycling, composting, waste reduction, watershed, and aquatic invasive species; The Elemental knows it all and is ready to handle any villian that might come their way.
Educational Objectives
- To learn about recycling
- To learn about organics recycling
- To share the five categories of materials that can be recycled (plastic, paper, metal, glass, organics)
- To identify some hazardous waste materials (pesticides, household cleaners, paint, gasoline, motor oil, poisons, corrosives, batteries, fluorescent lamps)
- To share the proper disposal location for hazardous waste (HHW Facility)
Rewind, Revamp, Re-Energize: A New Spin on the Three R’s
For Middle School
Written & directed by Caitlin Featherstone
Building on what students already know about recycling and composting, this assembly goes further into ways to reduce and reuse, and emphasizes how human activity can impact our environment.
Educational Objectives
- To reinforce what they already learned about recycling and composting.
- To learn about food reuse and rescue.
- To explore ways, they can positively change the environment by recycling.
- To emphasis how human activity can impact our environment.
- To ask questions about aspects of the phenomena they observe, the conclusions they draw from their models or scientific investigations, each other’s ideas, and the information they read.
- To engage in argument from evidence for the explanations the students construct, defend and revise their interpretations when presented with new evidence, critically evaluate the scientific arguments of others, and present counter arguments.
- To develop, revise, and use models to represent the students’ understanding of phenomena or systems as they develop questions, predictions and/or explanations, and communicate ideas to others.
We also have classes! We can provide environmental programming directly in the classroom through fun characters, games, and interactive activities. Topics we have covered in the past include:
Aquatic Invasive Species
Barrel Burning
Composting
Energy Saving
Recycling, Reducing, and Reusing
Water Conservation
Wetlands and Watersheds
