ERTH’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo™

Take a journey through pre-historic times in this performance with heaps of audience interaction. Human-powered puppetry creates this eye-popping visual feast! We’ll imagine what it’s like to see these animals as if they were cared for in a zoo. Our friendly host will introduce us menagerie of insects, mammals, and dinosaurs that inhabited the landscape millions of years ago, including a T. Rex!

California Content Standards easily applied in your classroom:

• 1.SC.2.d: Students know how to infer what animals eat from the shapes of their teeth (e.g., sharp teeth: eats meat; flat teeth: eats plants).
• 3.SC.3.e: Students know that some kinds of organisms that once lived on Earth have completely disappeared and that some of those resembled others that are alive today.
• 4.SC.2.b: Students know producers and consumers (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers) are related in food chains and food webs and may compete with each other for resources in an ecosystem.

LESSON PLAN IDEA: Students draw dinosaurs, cut them out and place them in a large class mural to create a collaborative art project.

Visit the artist’s website at www.erth.com.au.