Slapstick Science

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SLAPSTICK SCIENCE is an exciting series of science spectaculars using the circus as a laboratory to present and promote STEM and STEAM programming in elementary and middle schools. Assemblies are written and presented by certified science teacher and former Ringling Brothers clown, Ted Lawrence, as whacky whimsical Dr. Quinton Quark. Dr. Quark has great fun doing thrilling educational demonstrations that teach Chemistry and Physics to K-6 students (NOT Pre-K). Programs emphasize fun and audience participation and come with study guides. Kids will laugh as they learn. We offer 3 Physics lectures and 2 Chemistry shows:

SIMPLE MACHINES shows kids that with physics they can do anything, i.e. throw a BozoBop doll to the ceiling of the gym without ever touching it, or lifting a half-ton singlehandedly.

THE NOTION OF MOTION teaches the Laws of Motion and concludes by quizzing the audience as to how each of Newton's Laws is demonstrated by Dr. Quark discharging a fire extinguisher while wearing roller blades.

FLIGHT teaches kids the physics of flight and concludes with a life-sized Dr. Quark dummy actually flying across the Gym (this show MUST take place in a Gym).

KIDDIE CHEM offers K - 3rd graders an introduction to solids, liquids, and gases.

COMBUSTION is a chemistry lecture on fire safety for 4-8th that picks up where "Stop, Drop, & Roll" leaves off; it concludes with a quiz on fire eating.

Guaranteed to excite curiosities and motivate even the most science-phobic students (and teachers) to enjoy science.

To reignite our youths interest in REAL SCIENCE. Using humor and character and spectacular demonstrations, we get kids (and teachers) excited about learning science.

Slapstick Science was created in 1992 as a grassroots campaign to get kids excited about learning science. "Combustion - the Fire Safety Show" was written in 1988, but wasn't produced as a mobile assembly program until 1992. "Much Work with Little Effort" was on the road in 1993 and "Notion of Motion" was launched in 1996. "Flight" was first done in public in 2002 and was the only show toured by Slapstick Science for 2003/2004 (the centennial of the First Flight) so it was seen in nearly 200 schools during it's opening run.