Little Shop of HORRORS& the

WEIRD SCIENCE

ARTS INTEGRATION

LAB

April 22, 23, and 24 2022 AAA high school theatre, choir, dance, tech theatre & guitar collaborated and performed the muscial Little Shop of Horrors. To support the performing arts programming the Director of Arts Integration and educators from a variety of disciplines organized an educational "pre-show" that would showcase arts integration projects created by students from their classes. The Weird Science Arts Integration Lab became the title for this multi-discpline educational event.

The concept for the Weird Science Arts Integration Lab originated from Arts Integration Professional Developments for educators offered earlier in the school year. One of these PD's was hosted by Museum educators from a partnering museum the Scott Family Amazeum. As luck would have it the spring date for the musical aligned closely with the event NWA MAKER DAYS, sponsored by the Scott Family Amazeum. Visit #NWAMakerDays

Weird Science Arts Integration Lab

The Weird Science Arts Integration Laboratory was set up in the high school commons to serve as a pre-show event for students, educators, families and the public to see and experience AAA's Arts Integration approach to instruction. One hour prior to each musical performance the Weird Science A.I. Lab was open to explore. Various stations representing different academic and arts disciplines showcased arts integration projects that revealed connections between themes from the musical and the respective discipline. The results assisted in contextualizing characters and themes referenced in the muscial Little Shop of Horrors.

Meet the Mad Scientist Hosts of the A.I. LAB

Dr. Oliva Tillman & Dr. Alyssa Coleman as well as their plant experiment gone wrong on the Director of Arts Integration Mr. Jones

Overview from Dr. Alyssa

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Weird Science A. I. Pre Show Stations:

The Little Shop of Harmony: Invasive Species Installation created by students in Ms. Wenzel's Wandering Cloud Creative Writing Class offering Haiku poems written from the perspective of invasive plants.
Menacing Flora: Students in Mrs. McWilliams visual art class are learning about the printmaking process of etching, and producing original prints.
Fantastic Fabrication: Tech theatre students built the sets and creatures with the assistance of Mr. Wipplinger and Mr. Jones. See the process of how these creative creatures were made.
TERROR-aium Tunnel: Ms. Klatt's Painting II class has created a tunnel filled with neon painted carnivorious plants that glow in the black light lit tunnel.
Exo-PLANT-ets: Mrs. Moreira’s 8th grade scientists are exploring exoplanets and possible planetary conditions for life on these planets. The class will display their research using INFOGRAPHICS.
Ink Creatures and Monster Stories: Visit Mrs. Spalter's Fiction Craft station to experience chilling stories and illustrations.

Simulation Alien Invastion: Enjoy Mr. Farmer's Video Game Design class station to see has students collected data to simulate the growth of the alien plant over time. It doesn't look good for humanity...
Molecular Mobiles: The Commons will display mobiles created by students in Mr. Myrick's Physics and AP Physics classes.
Exponential Plant Growth: Students in Mr. Barrow's Algebra I class created graphs based on the alien plant, Audrey II, growing at linear progression and Audrey II growing at an Exponential progression.
Not So Bored Games Mrs. Cook's Digital Media classes are creating board games inspired by the story and characters of the muscial Little Shop of Horrors.
Performing Puppets: Check out the amazing puppets created by Mrs. Konomi's Fashion Design classes. Students used patterns to create unique puppets. Students will write a moralizing script based on their characters and perform a puppet show for elementary students later in the semester.
culinary station and purchase a cup of PARASITIC PLANT PUDDING or "swing" by the
AAA JAZZ BAND station for Little Shop themed baked goods and listen to their musical version of the musical soundtrack. In addition there will be a Silent Auction and Raffle hosted by the Prom Committee.

A very special THANK YOU to our community partner

The Scott Family AMAZEUM!

The Amazeum loaned objects from their TINKER LAB to be on display in our AI LAB. Objects had their own station and connected seamlessly with the student STEAM AI stations in the HS COMMONS.

Hollow Face Illusion

Rubin's Vase/Face Illusion

Mokeylight

Tensegrity Table

Venus Flytrap

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What is an Exoplanet? What is an Infographic? Find out from Mrs. Moreira

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Discover Harmony with Invasive Species with Ms. Wenzel

Promotional Station: AAA Intercession/ Summer programming and AMAZEUM Summer Programs and Professional Development for educators

Mrs. McWilliam's Visual Art: Menacing Flora

Menacing Flora is an assignment where the students illustrate the concept of a dangerous plant-form that exhibits both animalistic and human behaviors. Much like Audrey II, these Menacing Flora have anthropomorphic characteristics in order for survival on earth.

Wandering Cloud Creative Writing: Little Shop of Harmony

Studetns studied “invasive” plants and the language used to imagine and describe them.

Having learned that these are plants engaged in immature relationships within the ecosystem to which they’ve been introduced (primarily by humans!)

Students envisioned a greater balance through making arrangements of them in the Japanese ikebana style, which were sold in the “Little Shop of Harmony” store/installation.

Students wrote a Haiku poem from the perspective of an introduced species to the Northwest Arkansas area.

Paitning II: TERROR-iaum TUNNEL

Students in Ms. Klatt’s Painting II classes imagined their own species of plant creatures that have their own unique care instructions.

These carefully crafted, carnivorous plants were created with neon paints providing an eerie glow as you experience them in the TERROR-arim tunnel lit by black lights.

The tunnel offered a store front experience of exotic plants complete with imporatn care instructions as they are uniquely different!

JAZZ Band: Boogie-Woogie Baking

This was the swingiest station at the event. Little-Shop themed baked goods served as a fundraiser for the AAA Jazz Band as well as allowed students to learn more about the musical.

While shoppin’ patrons took in the the soundtrack of the musical Little Shop of Horrors performed by the AAA Jazz Band and it never sounded better!

Culinary: Parasitic Plant Pudding

Culinary students sold homemade Parasitic Plant Pudding cups and culinary’s signature Arkansas Arts Academy sugar cookies to raise money for the culinary department.

8th Grade Science: Exo-PLANT-ets Students analyzed different “exoplanets” (any planet beyond our solar system) that have recently been discovered and debated whether plant life, such as Audrey II, could have originated and thrived in the conditions.

To display their research students created infographics, form of imagery, graphs & statistics arranged with minimal text to provide a well organized composition of graphics and data that are both aesthetic and informative.

Creative Writing: Ink Creatures and Monster Stories

The stories of the ink creatures vary wildly, but they all have something in common. At the center of each story, there’s a monster. Sprung from each student's imagination, with a little push from one thing or another, came a creature.