EDUCATION GUIDEBest suited for Students

Grades K-5

Original fairytale by: Hans Christian AndersenWorld Premiere Adaptation by: Rachel Teagle | Directed by: Brian Clowdus

A teacher guide for schools & homeschool groups preparing to see Serenbe Playhouse’s production of The Snow Queen.

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How to be a Successful Audience Member

We at Serenbe Playhouse produce engaging and unforgettable immersive theatre experiences for fieldtrips. You can expect vibrant productions of compelling and classic stories that offer a day to remember. We are dedicated to doing everything within our power to ensure the best possible experience for your day with us at Serenbe Playhouse, but you can help too! Encourage students and chaperones alike to be successful audience members.

Before the Play y Be sure to check the weather and dress so as to be comfortable in the current outdoor temperature.

y Wear comfortable shoes, as locations of productions may require a brief hike.

y Turn your cell phone OFF. Not on silent or vibrate, but OFF. Texting or browsing, while a silent activity, is still considered to be a distracting and rude behavior in the theatre. So remove the tempta-tion and turn it off for an hour or two. You and your students can thank us for the relaxing time away from technology later.

During the Play y Don’t miss a moment. Live theatre is full of tiny moments, unlike tv and film that choose what the

audience sees with close-ups, in theatre you can watch anyone at any time! You will see lots of funny and interesting moments if you stay engaged with all the actors in the play at all times. If something is boring, look somewhere else, you are sure to be entertained!

y React to the play! Our actors want you to laugh, cry, and applaud. A live theatre performance is greatly improved by an engaged audience.

y That being said, being a professional actor requires an enormous amount of concentration. Please respect the actors and your fellow audience members by not talking during the performance. Unlike a movie, the actors in theatre can hear you if you talk.

y Teachers are the best example! Chaperones exhibiting strong theatre etiquette set the tone for the entire field trip. We encourage all our chaperones to lead by example.

After the Play y Although talking during the performance is distracting to the performers, crew and your fellow

audience members, discussions after the play are the best thing you can do! Discuss what you liked about the play and what you didn’t like, how our production was similar or different from the original literary work or other adaptations, or about the costumes, acting and setting. If art analysis doesn’t come naturally, you can utilize our guided questions to facilitate thoughtful conversation. Art only truly comes alive when it is interpreted by the audience! The after is just as important as the during in theatre… So discuss away!

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About the Author

Hans Christian Andersen

No collection of fairytales would be complete without the works of the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. In fact, Andersen’s life was like a fairytale in many ways. Out of the poverty, hardship, and loneliness of his youth,

he came to be one of the most honored men of his time. Many of the more than 160 fairytales he wrote, including “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Princess and the Pea”, “The Little Mermaid”, and “The Snow Queen” have become literary classics enjoyed by children and adults alike.

Andersen was born on April 2, 1805, in Odense, Denmark. His parents were poor; his father worked as a shoemaker and his mother was a washerwoman. His father, who died when Andersen was 11, entertained him with old Danish legends and stories from The Arabian Nights.

The people of Odense never knew what to make of the tall, awkward boy. When he recited long passages from plays or did a clumsy dance or insisted on singing, they could hardly help laughing. Everyone advised him to learn a trade, but this he would not do. He was forever saying that he was going to be famous.

In 1819, Andersen moved to the capital city of Copenhagen, where he hoped to become an actor in the Royal Theater. Many people of the theater and wealthy families of the city tried to help him, without much success. His dancing master gave up, and so did his singing teacher. Directors of the Royal Theater sympathized with his efforts to write plays but finally concluded that Andersen needed an education. One of

the directors raised money to send him away to school. The next few years were the unhappiest of his life. Andersen was much older than the other students, and the schoolmaster found endless ways to make fun of him. Finally when word of Andersen’s plight reached his benefactors in Copenhagen, he was removed from the school and put into the hands of a private tutor. He later attended and graduated from Copenhagen University.

After his schooling, Andersen spent many years traveling and writing poems, books, and plays, which met with some success. It was not until he was 30 that he wrote any fairytales. His first small book of fairytales became popular almost immediately, and from then on his fame grew rapidly, spreading from country to country.

Andersen put many pieces of his own life into his fairytales. He never forgot that his mother as a young girl had been forced to go begging. This led him to write “The Little Match Girl”, a story full of compassion for the unfortunate ones of this Earth. And his own personal experiences are reflected in “The Ugly Duckling”, which points out that sometimes the qualities that make you feel lonely, different, and out of place are the very qualities that, when properly used, can make you shine.

In 1867 he returned to Odense to be honored by his country. Standing on the balcony of the hall where the ceremony was held, he saw below him the city square, full of people who cheered him, and bright with thousands of candles burning in the windows of all the buildings. Andersen published his last fairytales in 1872, and after a long illness, he died in Copenhagen on August 4, 1875.

Biography written by Danny Kaye for The New Book of Knowledge®. 2008.

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Synopsis of The Snow Queen

By The Hopeful Heroine

Which Describes a Looking Glass and the Broken Fragments

Part one introduces readers to an evil hobgoblin/sprite/the devil who creates a magic mirror that distorts reality by taking everything good and making viewers see things as worthless. The devil wants to take it up to heaven to make fools of the angels as God, but as he gets closer and closer to heaven, the mirror begins to shake and eventually breaks into pieces. The mirror fragments are blown all over the world and wedge themselves into people’s eyes and hearts, turning them cold and wicked.

A Little Boy and a Little Girl

Kai and Gerda are neighbors who are the best of friends, and grow vegetables and roses together in little window boxes. One winter day, Kai’s grandmother tells them about snowflakes, sharing tales of how they are white bees and the largest of all the flakes is the Snow Queen. She flies around when the snow is thickest, and comes back to the villages in the evening, breathing on window panes leaving shapes like flowers and castles.

One evening while Kai was watching out the window, he saw the largest snowflake land on his windowsill and slowly begin to grow into the

shape of a woman dressed in white. She waved at Kai and he was frightened. Then the Spring came.

While Kai and Gerda were playing one day with roses, they began to talk of the Christ-child. Suddenly, the clock struck twelve and something struck his heart and flew into his eye, and he became wicked.

Then the winter came once again, and Kai went off to play with the boys of the village. As he was doing so, a stranger came into town on a magnificent winter sled. Kai attached his own small sled to the runner of the magnificent one and went away with the stranger. As they came to a place of stopping, the stranger stood up and Kai realized it was the Snow Queen. He thought she was beautiful and lovely, and when she scoop him up to take him to her castle in the clouds, he didn’t say no.

The Flower Garden of the Woman who Could Conjure.

Poor Gerda was deeply saddened by Kai’s absence and when Spring came once again, she had given up hope that he was dead and gone. But the sunshine heard her cry and said he didn’t believe it. And so, Gerda put on her new red shoes and set off to find her friend.

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Gerda came upon a river which she thought had taken her friend. She told the river she would give it her shoes if the river gave back her friend. When she threw them in, the river washed them back to her, and so she climbed upon a little boat on the bank to take her shoes out further. The boat floated her down the river to a little bank full of flowers. It was here, after reveling in the beautiful garden on the bank, that Gerda meets the old women. The old woman asks Gerda her story, and Gerda tells of her friend and their time with the roses asking if the old woman had seen him. She had not, and as Gerda rested, the women decided she wanted the child to stay with her. As to not remind her of her past life, the old woman buried all of her rose bushes, and charmed Gerda into staying.

Seasons passed before Gerda realized she had been tricked. She began to talk to the flowers to find wisdom about traveling and finding her friend. Finally, she found the gate to the garden and was able to escape, only to realize autumn had come and the world was dark.

The Prince and Princess

As Gerda travels along, she meets a crow who begins to tell her a story about a lonely Princess. Men come from all over to win her hearts, but have no such luck. Suddenly, the crow begins to describe Kai who went to the princess not to woo her, but to hear wisdom. The Princess and Kai were taken with each other, and so he stayed. At this point, Gerda begs the crow to get her into the palace, believing Kai to be the new prince

The crow is able to sneak Gerda into the palace because his betrothed crow lives inside. Finally,

Gerda comes to the Prince and Princess’ room, and her heart is heavy for she discovers the Prince is not Kai. The Princess rewards the crow and his love for helping Gerda, and offers Gerda a place to stay.

After a night spent in the palace, Gerda asks for boots and a carriage so that she may continue on to find Kai.

Little Robber Girl

As Gerda is traveling away from the palace, her carriage is robbed. And older robber decides Greda will taste good and as she tries to kill her, her daughter bites her on the ear, stopping her. The little robber girl says Greda will be her friend, and must live. However, the little robber girl admits to Gerda that she will be the one to kill her.

As she was avoiding sleep, Gerda began to listen to the pigeons for they told her of seeing Kai with the Snow Queen. They tell her that most likely the Snow Queen was headed up to Lapland, and as Gerda talks in her sleep, the little robber girl threatens her again. But it is the little robber girl who helps her in the morning. She distracts her robber mother, and then sets their reindeer free, persuading the animals to run home to Lapland and take Gerda with them.

The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman

The reindeer stops at a little hut during the journey where it’s occupant, a Lapland woman, tells them they have one hundred more miles to go to Finland if they wish to reach the Snow

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Queen. The Lapland women writes a notes to the Finland woman who will be mush more able to help Gerda. However, when they reach the Finland woman, the woman can not give her the help the reindeer wants Gerda to have–the power of twelve men– but she does tell her of the piece of mirror stuck in Kai’s eye and heart.

When asked if she can give Gerda the power to conquer this issue, the Finland woman explains she can give Gerda nothing more than the power she already has inside of her, talking of Gerda strength. The woman explains to the reindeer that neither one of them must help Gerda–she must save Kai herself.

Because of that, the reindeer takes Gerda into the forest, drops her off, and then suddenly leaves. Gerda becomes scared and begins to say the Lord’s prayer. As she does, her breath turns into a legion of angels that helps her to go forward to the Snow Queen’s castle with courage and safety.

Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There at Last

As the story comes back around to Kai, readers learn of how vast, empty and cold the Snow Queen’s palace is. In the middle of her empty hall lies a frozen lake upon which the Snow Queen sits. She calls this lake the “mirror of reason.”

Though Kai’s heart is a lump of ice, he is working on a task the Queen has given him. In order to be his own master and out from under her rule, he must spell out the word ‘eternity’ from ice shards, but is never able to do so.

In this moment, the Snow Queen leaves to to ice over other countries, and Gerda comes into the palace. She is so happy to have found Kai, she hugs him, yet he sits as still as ice. Gerda begins to weep warm tears and sing the Christ-child song the two used to sing together. Kai begins to weep and the mirror piece bursts out of his eye. Gerda kisses him and he become alive again, and so the two spell out the word eternity.

The two leave and travel the path Gerda has traveled to find Kai, only backwards. They meet the people and animals she befriended. As they finally reach their home, Spring arrives and the roses are in bloom. They pass through their doorway and are suddenly grown.

They sit upon their chairs of childhood, memories of the Snow Queen vanishing while Kai’s Grandmother, sitting in God’s sunshine, reads from the Bible. The two finally understand the words of their song and summer, bright, warm summer, blossoms.

Photos by: BreeAnne Clowdus

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About The Snow Queen

About the Show

Background: The Snow Queen is a fairytale written by Hans Christian Andersen, first published in 1845. It is a tale that centers on the struggle of good and evil as experienced by a little boy and girl, Kai and Gerda. The tale is told in seven stories that weave together, and it is one of Andersen’s longest fairytales.

Cast & Characters of The Snow Queen:

Brittany Ellis (Lucia - the Snow Queen )Lucia, the Snow Queen, was born out of a King and Queen’s sorrow because they could not bear a child. The Queen’s tears in the snow created a child who was too cold

to touch. As Lucia grew she brought an eternal winter to the entire kingdom. Soon, the Queen bore a human child who was warm and made of flesh. Lucia ran away and became the Queen of Winter, freezing everything and everyone she encountered.

Shannon McCarren (Gerda) A bright, precocious, adventurous girl. Her best friend is Kai, who she considers as a brother. Gerda’s kindness and love for Kai guides her through many perilous

adventures in her search for him. In the end her courage and kindness melts the heart of the frozen Snow Queen.

Terrence Smith (Kai) A bright, inquisitive boy. Sweet and innocent to start, until a shard of the Hobgoblin Mirror becomes lodged in his eye. The shard of glass makes him see all

that is good in the world as evil and ugly. He runs away from home and encounters the Snow Queen. She quickly freezes his heart, taking him captive to live with her.

Ally Duncan (Grundtal & Hagatha) Grundtal is the leader of the trolls. She is wise and always there to keep the other trolls out of trouble. Hagatha is an eccentric old woman from Lappland. She holds the

secret to finding Kai, and helps Gerda find the courage within herself to rescue him.

Shelby Folks (Ingeborg & Kaja) Ingeborg is a beautiful troll who loves creating mischief. She introduces us to the Hobgoblin Mirror, which is the catalyst to Kai and Gerda’s adventures with the Snow

Queen. Kaja is a young robber girl who encounters Gerda in the woods. Instead of robbing Gerda, she takes compassion and guides her to visit Hagatha in Lappland. Kaja’s best friend is Bjorn the talking reindeer.

Alex Towers (Malm & Bjorn) Malm is a mischievous troll who is always hungry. He is not the brightest, but his heart is kind. Bjorn is a reindeer and the best friend of Kaja. Bjorn agrees to help Gerda

find Kai and guides her to Hagatha in Lappland.

Serenbe Playhouse’s The Snow Queen takes place in the Natural Playground at Serenbe. The various playground structures serve as stages for the seven stories that comprise the tale of The Snow Queen.

Photo by: BreeAnne Clowdus

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Critical Thinking

Language/Writing1. Read The Snow Queen. Think of how

you would tell the story if you had to present it on stage. What are the most important characters and elements that cannot be changed? What can be changed? What is the most difficult aspect of bringing this story onto the stage?

2. Have the students write about an im-portant moment in their lives when their values were tested.

3. Where do stories come from? What do they tell us about ourselves? What do they mean? Why do we need them? How can we use them to improve the world? Why have some stories been popular for so long?

Social Studies 1. Identify and study heroines or heroes

from other times in history and from other cultures. What qualities did they possess that made them important in their time?

2. Find three other tales from around the world that have strong heroines.

3. Hans Christian Andersen was the au-thor of The Snow Queen. This original fairy-tale was written in 1844, in Copen-hagen, Denmark. What can you find out about Hans Christian Andersen that can help you understand this story better? What do you know about the time in history it was written?

Psychology/Human Behavior 1. This story begins with Goblins creat-

ing a magic mirror that distorts every-thing that is good and makes it look bad. When the mirror breaks, pieces of it float all around the world. If you get a piece in your eye, it makes what is beau-tiful look ugly, if you get a piece in your heart, it turns it to a lump of ice. Have you ever noticed that some people seem to act as if they have a piece of the Gob-lin mirror in their eye or heart? Do you ever behave that way? Discuss the idea that how we are and how we behave, af-fects how we view our world.

2. There are certain behaviors that we recognize in the characters in the play, even though none of the actors speak. Why is that?

Science 1. Create some optical illusions of your

own.

2. Find three different “magical” events in The Snow Queen. Is there a way to look at them through the window of science and explain how they might occur?

3. The seasons are an important element in this play. What does the Snow Queen herself represent?

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Pre and Post ShowAsk yourself these questions before the performance and again after! See if any of your answers have changed!

If so, how did the art of live theatre change your opinions?

Pre Show Post Show

1. Which character do you like the most? Why?

2. What did Kai learn by the end of the story? What did Gerda discover about herself?

3. What characters performed magic and why? How did the magic fit in to the story?

4. What surprised you the most in the story? What surprised you most in the play? How were these moments different or similar?

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Pre Show Post Show5. Look up the definition of “hero”. Is Gerda a hero and why? Have you ever helped someone else even though it was difficult or dangerous to do so? Has someone else

helped you? Do you think this makes you (or the person who helped you) a hero?

5. Is there some kind of an experience we enjoy at a play and nowhere else? What is it?

Have you seen live theatre before? If so do you enjoy it?

If not, do you think you will enjoy it or not?

If you have seen live theatre before, how was this different from other live theatre you’ve seen? Did you enjoy the

experience?

If this was your first experience at live theatre, how did you feel about it?

Either way how did your feelings compare to what you expected?

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What Makes a Fairytale?Ever wonder what make a fairytale a fairytale? Because seldom

does it ever have a fairy actually in the tale!

What do you think!? What fairytales do you know? What do they have in common?

Fill out the first two columns below about what you KNOW about fairytales and what you WONDER about them!

Now that you have made your own discoveries about fairytales, look at the next page to learn what scholars and researchers know about the story form of fairytales!

Explore each of the following elements of fairytale using the story of The Snow Queen by filling out the fairytale Elements Chart that follows!

K What I Know W What

I Wonder L What I Learned

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Elements of a Fairytale

Once upon a time - The Setting Fairytales purposely do not reveal a specific setting. They take place ‘long ago’, ‘far away’, or ‘once upon a time’. They do not reveal the time and place so that it can apply to anyone, anywhere. Write the first sentence of the story in the “setting’ box to show this vague time and place.

Good guys/Bad guys - Main Characters Fairytales usually have very clear ‘good guy(s)’ and ‘bad guy(s)’ because the good guys are very good, and the bad guys are very bad. The story reveals this through their appearance, actions, and words.

A Deadly Problem - The Problem The problem in fairytales are very big problems that usually involve death. For example, in Rumpelstiltskin, if the miller’s daughter does not spin the straw into gold, the king will kill her. In Jack and the Beanstalk if the giant catches Jack he will eat him.

The Pattern of 3 or 7 - Repeated events/words There is a pattern of 3 or 7 that occors in fairytales - three little pigs, Goldilocks and the three bears, three times that Jack

climbs the beanstalk, three times that Rumpelstiltskin spins the straw into gold, and 7 dwarves. The discovery of this pattern is always a favorite among students. They always find patterns of 3 or 7 that were never noticed before!

Magical Element Fairytales always include some sort of magic. We know that fairytales are fictitious because they contain something magical that could not happen in real life: The fairy godmother in Cinderella, the magic mirror in Snow White, or the frog that was put under a spell in The Frog Prince.

A Way Out - Solution Even though fairytales usually include ‘a deadly problem,’ there is always a way for the ‘good guy’ to avoid it. In Sleepy Beauty the evil fairy casts a spell that will kill Aurora, but one of the good fairies changes the spell to put her to sleep instead. The princess will wake up if she is kissed by a prince. In Rumpelstiltskin, the queen will not have to give up her child if she can guess his name.

Happily Ever After - Ending Fairytales always have a happy ending. The ‘good guys’ win and they live the rest of their lives ‘happily ever after.’ For instance, in Rapunzel, the princess finds the prince, cures his blindness, and they find his kingdom where they will rule as king and queen. In The Three Little Pigs, the third little pig tricks the wolf, and was never bothered by a wolf again. Use the ‘Ending’ box to show how the good guy wins and the rest of his life is happy.

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Fairytale Elements Map

Title:

Setting (When/Where?):

Main Character:

Problem:

Repeated Events/Words:

Magical Elements:

Resolution:

Ending:

Now that you have learned what makes a fairytale a fairytale go back to your Know, Wonder, Learn chart and fill out the LEARN column! Circle, Highlight or color around anything that you Knew or Wondered that you also Learned to be True! In a different color or different artistic way, color or draw around anything new you learned that you didn’t know before!

“Fairytales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

– G. K. CHESTERTON

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What if the Snow Queen had a facebook? Or Kai or Gerda!? Write 3 Facebook Statuses for each character! Perhaps statuses they might post at the beginning, middle and end of our story, so we can see how a modern day version of their character might have grown and changed with each of their journeys. Don’t forget hashtags, check-ins, stickers, emoticons or even an occasional photo post!

Snow Queen

Modern Impressions

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Gerda

Introduction To OZ!

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Kai

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The Snow Queen Profile PicturesFind information in the story about the appearance

of the Snow Queen, Gerda, Kai, and one character of your choice. Draw a Profile Picture for each character, based on their appearance and personalities.

Snow Queen

Kai

Gerda

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Making Snow - An Acting Experiement Gather your students together and explain you are going to put

on a play about how to make snow. Tell them, “In order to make this play it will require their attention, creativity, and teamwork”.Read the Script aloud and guide students in the suggested choreography (movements).

Script Choreography Concept

How does snow form? Let’s all sit together. Imagine that we are a pool of water— not that we’re in it but that we ARE the water itself.

Everyone gathers, seated in an open carpeted area, multipurpose area, open lawn or playground area.

An everyday experience of a pool of water

Now, if we could look very closely at water, we could see that it’s made up of small molecules of water, all moving around.

Engage students in such a way that they are sitting comfortably, Lead movements in a gentle jostling manner.

This touches on the notion that what we see as water is made up of smaller units.

You’ve probably heard of H2O. Well, just for now, imagine that each one of us is a molecule of water, H2O. The ‘H2’ means two hydrogen atoms—like we have two arms. And the ‘O’ means one oxygen atom, like we each have one head.

As the parts of the water molecule are related to the body (arms and head) lead a flowing movement of those body parts. (Be responsive to children adding their own thoughts about their knowledge of H2O, etc.)

The idea is to set up an experiential playing out of how water works—using the terminology, aiming for precursor understanding.

So here we are—All our arms and heads as the molecules of water.

Here, lead movements together, flowing easily then stop the motion.

This reminds students of the H2O structure.

So what does a pool of water do? Okay, it moves around. Maybe the wind creates a ripple. Maybe something splashes into the water.

Be the wind, setting up a ripple. Be something that falls into the water, setting up a splash. (Encourage a few student generated examples.)

This sets up the beginning of identifying the characteristics of water.

Another thing that happens is that water “evaporates.” Sometimes, a water molecule floats up out of the puddle into the air.

Lead one or two at first (attempt in the telling to let the process occur gradually). Soon nearly everyone will be floating about.

The process of evaporation, a function of temperature and vapor pressure.

The water vapor, that is, the water molecules now in the air, float up higher and higher, buffeted about by the wind.

Let this happen gradually. Slowly floating up, and then moving about until everyone is (airborne).

The gradual, slow motion is to give the students the time to imagine floating higher and higher into the air.

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Now that you have acted out the science of making snow, here are some fun videos to learn more.

Script Choreography Concept

As the water vapor gets higher, it reaches cooler air. In fact, it starts to get shivering, freezing cold.

Encourage students to show actions of feeling cold, shivering.

The Bergeron Process— water droplets form in clouds, but do not freeze until it reaches ~-10°C.

Now something VERY interesting happens. Some of the water vapor condenses— the molecules huddle together to form tiny droplets—clouds!

Encourage students to huddle together in small groups, “droplets” while still traveling together as a whole, as a “cloud.”

Condensation is the opposite of evaporation— water vapor becomes liquid water.

As it gets below freezing cold the droplets are supercooled until some of them FREEZE.

At the word FREEZE—stop the action momentarily.

An initial ice crystal that forms in a cloud is called an “ice nucleus.”

It’s almost as if the water gets frozen STIFF at an angle as if it were about to give someone a big hug—and froze in place.

Have students stretch out their arms at approximately an angle of 109º (a little greater than a right angle).

This angle corresponds to the molecular structure of H2O and contributes to the shape of the crystals that form ice nuclei.

The molecules are just able to grab hands to form a six-sided crystal.

Help students form ONE example of a hexagon, and ice nucleus.

Once a crystal forms, it can be built upon by other water molecules.

The super-cooled water vapor then condenses and crystallizes around the hexagon, creating a unique shape—a snowflake.

Encourage other students to “condense” onto the newly formed ice crystal, building out from the initial structure.

A typical snowflake is composed of many ice crystals.

Soon many snowflakes are heavy enough to fall.

Slow motion falling of “snow” to the ground.

If the ground temperature is cold enough, it remains as snow; if it is warmer, it will rain.

And in the spring, when the snow melts, the snow becomes a pool of water.

As “snow” melts everyone is seated again, as at the beginning.

This completes an example of a snow cycle.

How Snow is Made (If you’re not Elsa) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53DUuh1gG1Y

How Does Snow Form? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-8ua_ZlGrI

The Science of Snowflakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUot7XSX8uA

Frozen Activities for Ice Powers Just Like The Snow Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVAL5I-WtAQ

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About Serenbe Playhouse

Serenbe Playhouse believes that theatre as an art form has the unique power to illuminate the human experience. In pursuit of that vision, we produce artistically rich site-specific performances and programming that reduces the barriers between artists and audiences by immersing patrons in an environment that amplifies the beauty of nature, and provides opportunities for engagement, conversation, and collaboration.

We use theatre as an artistic educational tool for both artists and audiences. A training ground for promising artists, the Playhouse offers high school students, college students, and recent graduates active opportunities to work alongside established theatre professionals. Serenbe Playhouse adheres to the philosophy that theatre is a necessity, not a privilege. Through targeted assistance to schools and youth organizations, the Playhouse broadens access to art and culture, and encourages the involvement of under served audiences throughout the region.

We are a pioneer in modeling Green Theatre Practices by producing plays with a commitment to social responsibility and environmental stewardship. All productions are performed outdoors, in concert with Nature; repurpose existing structures; and use natural light and 90% LED theatrical lighting. Sets are designed for disassembly and constructed with reclaimed and recycled materials with the goal of minimizing a production’s waste and impact on the environment.

Serenbe Playhouse was founded in 2009 under the executive and artistic direction of Brian Clowdus, an accomplished actor, educator, director and producer. He earned a BA in Theatre & Dance from Amherst College graduating Magna Cum Laude, an MFA in Acting from The University of South Carolina, and is a 2011 Fellow of the world-renowned Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Established under the umbrella of their parent organization, The Serenbe Institute for Art Culture & the Environment, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, Serenbe Playhouse operates with the support of a diverse working board of directors and community volunteers.

Photo by: BreeAnne Clowdus

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