This science companion to Miss Alaineus proves that water, H‑O-H, H2O, is the most miraculous of substances in this wacky play set on a neighborhood stage. Create your own show!
The kids from Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster are back! This time they’re putting on a neighborhood play starring the world’s most astounding combination of atoms — H20! Filled to the brim with scientifically accurate facts about water and water conservation, here is one wet-and-wild celebration you won’t want to miss.
Scholastic Magazine science feature
Science facts about water in an innovative performance format
Stage a play or reader’s theater.
A Look Inside
Incredible Water Show — Welcome slide
Incredible Water Show — Glug, Glug slide
Incredible Water Show — Water slide
With its bright, colored-marker cartoons and dialogue bubbles, this presentation is filled with exuberance… Frasier’s offering, with its snappy text, jazzy pictures, and upbeat tone, may inspire children to produce plays about their own subjects of study.
— School Library Journal, Lynda Ritterman, Atco Elementary School
Classroom Activities
Complete Curriculum Kit
6 pages
Would you like to download the entire six page curriculum support kit for The Incredible Water Show?
OR! Print only the pages you would like, as described in the adjacent panels.
Stage a Play
2 pages
Stage your own Incredible Water Show…Two pages of performance notes and ideas. Divide the class into ten scenes and tell the story small, medium, or grand!
Staging Ideas
1 page
Turn facts into performances with staging ideas, plus great websites for further research. Performance related jobs are included, too.
Vocabulary Games
1 page
Includes water vocabulary games, plus a brief author biography and pictures.
Stick Puppets
1 page
Make puppets on a stick! Here is a single page reproducible of the six main characters, plus the dog and cat. Print on paper or card stock, color with markers, just like the book.
Coloring Sheet
1 page
Color the entire water cycle in a black & white reprint of Mrs. Page’s students performing the hydrocycle!
Water Bibliography
2 pages
A very watery bibliography of eight picture books to extend your water studies