Resource Guide - Mesa Public Schools

Educator Resource Guide
Erth’s Visual and Physical Inc. presents
Dinosaur Petting Zoo
February 19-20, 2013
9:30AM, 11:45AM
Ikeda Theater
Grades: K-8
WELCOME!
Dear Educator,
Thank you for selecting a Performing Live for Students field trip with the Mesa Arts Center. We have a
dynamic season planned and we look forward to connecting you to our many artists and performances. With
Performing Live, students are able to experience live theatre and make educational connections well beyond
the classroom.
We also recognize and appreciate the energy and time spent on your part in coordinating field trips. In this
guide we have provided information to help make this the best experience possible, which
includes:
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Arizona State Academic Standards / Curriculum Connections
Logistics / Theater Etiquette / Chaperones
Parking / Mesa Arts Center Map
Mesa Public Library Supplemental Resources
In addition, the Mesa Arts Center has many open and inviting spaces that make good places to hold a brown
bag lunch. Prior arrangements for lunch accommodations need to be made by either calling (480) 644-6609
or emailing [email protected].
Please contact our offices should you have any additional questions.
Enjoy the show!
Mandy Buscas
Arts Education Outreach Coordinator
P 480-644-6609 | F 480-644-6503
[email protected]
Ashley Hare
Arts Education Outreach Associate
P 480-644-6540 | F 480-644-6503
[email protected]
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
LEARNING THROUGH THE ARTS
AZ Standards: Introduction and Rationale
♦ Theater allows students in a collaborative
and individual manner to explore varied
cultural experiences and universal themes of
humankind within a safe context.
♦ By understanding the contribution music
makes to culture and history, students are
better prepared to live and work in
multicultural settings.
Erth’s Visual and Physical Inc. presents Dinosaur Petting Zoo
An eye-popping visual experience of giant puppetry, stilt-walkers, inflatable environments, aerial and flying creatures. Travel on a journey
through prehistoric ages and experience dinosaurs and creatures that
inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
Curriculum Connections
Folktales / Storytelling / Personal and group identity / Perceptions:
Relationships / Behavior / Imagination: Being in a particular time and
place in history
♦ Dance contributes to and defines our culture,
and is a means to create and understand our
personal and cultural identities.
BUS BUSTER ACTIVITY
Q&A activities for the bus ride back to school.
♦ Tell your seatmate 3 facts about your
favorite dinosaur.
Arizona State Academic Standards
By attending this performance your students will:
THEATER:
S1: C1: PO 104: Follow established theatre safety rules.
S2: C1: PO 203: Discuss how theatre skills can benefit other life skill
areas.
S2: C2: PO 303: Explain how one’s own behavior might change in
response to a performance.
S3: C2: PO101: Demonstrate respectful audience behavior.
♦ With your seat mate create a story about the
one day in the life of a dinosaur.
♦ Discuss your personal reactions to the
Puppet manipulation in the performance.
SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE!
We’d love to hear your students’ response to our
shows. We especially appreciate pictures and letters!
[email protected]
SCIENCE:
S4: C3: PO 2: Identify what plants and animals need to grow and survive
S4: C1: PO 2: Compare the following observable features of living
things: movement, protection, respiration, support.
S4: C3: PO 3: Identify observable similarities and differences between/among different groups of animals.
S4: C3: PO 3: Describe how plants and animals within a habitat are
dependent on each other.
Logistics
THEATER ETIQUETTE
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Food and beverages must remain outside the theater at all times.
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A visit to the restroom should occur prior to the start of the performance. Please enter and exit the
theater only when absolutely necessary.
If students have backpacks and other belongings they should be left outside of the theater either in the
lobby or on the bus.
♦ Cameras and recording devices may not be used in the theater.
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Cell phones must be turned off inside the theater. Texting is also not allowed.
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Follow directions of the house managers and ushers who will be in the theater to help everyone get
seated quickly and quietly.
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Once the performance has started please remain quiet as a courtesy to our performers.
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Please respect yourself and the people around you.
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Showing appreciation at the end of the performance (or during if something makes you laugh) is always
encouraged!
CHAPERONES
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Assign each chaperone a designated group of students and provide him/her with a written list of the
students in that group.
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Provide I.D. nametags for students in grades K-3. We recommend using just the child’s first name along
with the name of the school.
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Ask chaperones to stay with their assigned group throughout the field trip. Adult chaperones are responsible for the students’ conduct and behavior throughout their visit to the Center.
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Please review theater etiquette rules and responsibilities with all chaperones.
Parking & Mesa Arts Center Map
PARKING and BUS INFORMATION:
PLEASE NOTE – We ask that buses arrive approximately one hour before the performance begins to allow
ample time to unload and seat students.
LOCATION: Downtown Mesa at One East Main Street. The southeast corner of Main and Center Street.
ARRIVAL: Enter the drop off area by coming in westbound on 1st Avenue, then pull up to the curb (marked with
cones) and unload passengers. Proceed to theatre as directed by lot attendant. Buses will continue west to BUS
PARKING seen on map below.
DEPARTURE: Following the performance the audience will be released by school to meet their bus at the same
location they were dropped off.
BABY MINMI
PARAVERTEBRA
Early Cretaceous: 110 –115 million years ago
Fossils of Minmi Paravertebra were first discovered near
Roma, Queensland in 1964. In 1990 an almost complete specimen was
discovered on Marathon Station, Queensland.
A small armoured dinosaur (ankylosaur) that was a quadruped.
This herbivore had horizontal plates of bones that ran along the sides of
its vertebrae called “scutes” and even the underside was protected by
small bony scutes imbedded in the skin. Minmi grew to about 3 metres
long and was approximately 1-metre tall to the top of the shoulder.
BABY DRYOSAUR
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ornithopoda
Dryosaur means: “Oak Reptile” or Tree Lizard
Late Jurassic: 145 –161 million years ago
Fossils have been found in the western United States, Tanzania
and also in New Zealand. Dryosaurs were herbivores, using their
hard beak to cut leaves and plants, and the Oak shaped teeth at
the back of the mouth to grind them up. Dryosaurs had powerful
back legs and was probably a fast runner. The stiff tail balanced
the body while standing or moving. Dryosaurs grew to
approximately 3 to 4 meters long.
TYRANNOSAUR
Pronunciation: tye-RAN-uh-SAWR
Meaning: “tyrant lizard”
The Tyrannosaur is any of a group of predatory dinosaurs that lived from
the late Jurassic Period (approx. 150 million years ago) to the latest
Cretaceous Period (about 65 million years ago),
at which time they reached their greatest dominance.
Most were large predators with very large, high skulls of approximately 1
metre in length. They had up to 60 teeth - those of the juveniles being
serrated front and back and could easily bite through skulls, pelvises and
limbs of other dinosaurs. A fossil found at Dinosaur Cove, Victoria in
1989 has led paleontologist Tom Rich to suggest that Tyrannosaurids
were not only restricted to the northern hemisphere.
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MEGANEURA
Pronunciation: meg-a-NEW-ra
Meganeura was a gigantic primitive dragonfly with a 70 cm wingspan.
It flew to hunt flying insects above tropical forests and had swiveling
multi-faceted eyes like headlamps which were quick to spot
movement and sharp enough to allow it to pounce on flying prey.
Meganeura flew by beating 2 pairs of wings stiffened by “veins”. It dashed to and fro in forests, changing speed
and direction almost instantly, grabbing insects with its legs and bringing them up to the mouth to feed.
Meganeura itself were around in the late Carboniferous period (355-295 million years ago), but not in either the
Jurassic or the Cretaceous period. However, there were still large dragonflies in both these periods. The present
day dragonflies are descended from these.
LEPTICTIDIUM
Pronunciation: lep-tik-TID-ee-um
Meaning: “delicate weasel”
Leptictidium were mammals 50-40 million years ago. They
survived through the Cretaceous period and the great
extinction of the large dinosaurs, but became
extinct 40 million years ago. They lived in the Northern
Hemisphere, and possibly in the Southern hemisphere.
DWARF ALLOSAUR
Pronunciation: ALL-o-saw
Meaning: “strange lizard’ on account of its light vertebrae
There are limited recordings of this animal in Australia. It appears to have
been a more robust form of the giant Allosaurs of the northern hemisphere, thought to have
adapted to survive in Australia after the Ice Age. The Dwarf Allosaur grew to about 6 metres
in length and could probably rear to about 2.2 metres. It weighed just over half a tonne.
It was a general carnivore and scavenger. It was the largest predator in Gondwana.
Existed in the early Cretaceous period (104 -112 million years ago).
LEAELLYNASAURA
Pronunciation: lee-EL-in-a-SAW-rah
104 to112 million years ago
Period: Early Cretaceous
The Leaellynasaura is one of many dinosaurs whose partial remains have been dug (and
blasted) out of the solid rocks of Dinosaur Cove in the south east of Australia. Evidence
of Leaellynasaura is known from a well-preserved skull. This dinosaur was a small turkey
sized herbivorous Ornithopod. In early Cretaceous times the residing areas of Australia
were well within the Antarctic Circle where the climate was extreme with limited sun
visible for months of the year. Its skull has unusually large eye-sockets suggesting that
Leaellynasaura adapted to the long winter darkness of the Antarctic and implies that it
could withstand low, perhaps even sub-zero, temperatures. To do this, it would have
needed some way of generating body heat, which some people have taken as evidence
that dinosaurs were in fact warm-blooded.
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