| Program Type | Workshop | Residency | Teacher Professional Development |
| Art Form | Visual Art |
| Curriculum Connections | STEM | Play-Based Learning | Language Arts/Literacy |
| Target Grades | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Adult | Higher Education |
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Having the opportunity to work with AFLCT has been truly beneficial; they've provided unique experiences that have positively impacted our students. Their professional artists are strong role-models who encouraged students to take risks, find their voices, and be confident young people. They assisted in the process of inspiring our students to discover their individual identities and be able to self-assuredly express and share their ideas and opinions.
Description
THE FLOATING BUBBLE LAB: Exploring bubbles, art, science, writing and joy
What can we discover through a bubble? THE FLOATING BUBBLE LAB is an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop (PD or residency) that blends art, science, movement, and inquiry through the playful and poetic medium of bubbles.
Bubbles—fragile, luminous, and temporary—become both an art material and a way to investigate the world around us. Students explore the basic science of bubbles, including surface tension, light refraction, prisms, and the color spectrum, while experimenting with bubble solutions, designing and constructing bubble wands, and observing bubbles through drawing, painting, movement, photography, video, and reflective writing.
Through guided experimentation, students ask questions such as: What is a bubble? What is a bubble made of? Why do bubbles form spheres? Why do bubbles appear rainbow-like? What happens when we change the tool we use to make a bubble? Students and teachers learn through observation, trial and error, creative problem-solving, and play—connecting scientific phenomena to visual and sensory experiences.
The workshop also introduces students to the idea of ephemeral art—art that is temporary, changing, and sometimes disappears. Students consider how we can observe, document, and reflect on something that does not last. Drawing, poetry, photography, video, sound, and movement become ways of capturing and responding to the experience of bubbles.
Adaptable for grades 1–5, middle school, and high school, The Floating Bubble Lab integrates Visual Art, Science, Literacy, Movement, and Media Arts and supports STEAM, HOT Schools, and inquiry-based learning. Students - and Teachers leave the experience with a deeper understanding of bubble science and ephemeral art, along with increased confidence in observation, experimentation, reflection, and creative risk-taking. Most importantly, the workshop makes room for curiosity, experimentation, wonder, and joy.
What can we discover through a bubble? THE FLOATING BUBBLE LAB is an interdisciplinary, hands-on workshop (PD or residency) that blends art, science, movement, and inquiry through the playful and poetic medium of bubbles.
Bubbles—fragile, luminous, and temporary—become both an art material and a way to investigate the world around us. Students explore the basic science of bubbles, including surface tension, light refraction, prisms, and the color spectrum, while experimenting with bubble solutions, designing and constructing bubble wands, and observing bubbles through drawing, painting, movement, photography, video, and reflective writing.
Through guided experimentation, students ask questions such as: What is a bubble? What is a bubble made of? Why do bubbles form spheres? Why do bubbles appear rainbow-like? What happens when we change the tool we use to make a bubble? Students and teachers learn through observation, trial and error, creative problem-solving, and play—connecting scientific phenomena to visual and sensory experiences.
The workshop also introduces students to the idea of ephemeral art—art that is temporary, changing, and sometimes disappears. Students consider how we can observe, document, and reflect on something that does not last. Drawing, poetry, photography, video, sound, and movement become ways of capturing and responding to the experience of bubbles.
Adaptable for grades 1–5, middle school, and high school, The Floating Bubble Lab integrates Visual Art, Science, Literacy, Movement, and Media Arts and supports STEAM, HOT Schools, and inquiry-based learning. Students - and Teachers leave the experience with a deeper understanding of bubble science and ephemeral art, along with increased confidence in observation, experimentation, reflection, and creative risk-taking. Most importantly, the workshop makes room for curiosity, experimentation, wonder, and joy.
Objectives
Learning Goals and Standards
Arts: creating ephemeral artworks, reflecting, analyzing.
Science: understanding surface tension, light refraction, color spectrum.
Literacy: descriptive writing, poetry, media documentation.
STEAM: inquiry, experimentation, problem-solving.
Arts: creating ephemeral artworks, reflecting, analyzing.
Science: understanding surface tension, light refraction, color spectrum.
Literacy: descriptive writing, poetry, media documentation.
STEAM: inquiry, experimentation, problem-solving.
Pricing Information
Program Length
See above
Participants
20-30 participant range per session
Technical Specifications
• Set Up: 10 minutes
• Break: 10 minutes
• Strike: 10-15 minutes
• Program Space: Classroom space with desks pushed back. Open Space for circle activities. One table for presentation materials Access to outdoor field and sinks preferable
• Electricity/Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi
• Audiovisual/Tech: Teachers can provide cellphones for recording and photographing bubble activities. School to provide projector if presenting a power point.
• Tables/Chairs: Yes
• Outside Possible: No, program cannot be entirely outside.
• Venue-Provided Supplies: Photocopies will need to be made.
• Mobility/Location Needs: Assistance with materials is requested. Please provide a rolling type cart to load supplies. One classroom is preferred vs. traveling to multiple classrooms.
• Break: 10 minutes
• Strike: 10-15 minutes
• Program Space: Classroom space with desks pushed back. Open Space for circle activities. One table for presentation materials Access to outdoor field and sinks preferable
• Electricity/Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi
• Audiovisual/Tech: Teachers can provide cellphones for recording and photographing bubble activities. School to provide projector if presenting a power point.
• Tables/Chairs: Yes
• Outside Possible: No, program cannot be entirely outside.
• Venue-Provided Supplies: Photocopies will need to be made.
• Mobility/Location Needs: Assistance with materials is requested. Please provide a rolling type cart to load supplies. One classroom is preferred vs. traveling to multiple classrooms.