Golden Dragon Acrobats

Grades PK-12

For more than 27 centuries, Chinese acrobats have been thrilling audiences-making theirs the longest running folk art form in history! This performance represents the best of this time-honored tradition, mixing award-winning acrobatics, traditional dance, spectacular costumes, and ancient and contemporary theatrical techniques in a show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty.

California Content Standards easily applied in your classroom:

K-12.AR.MU.3.0: Students analyze the role of music in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting cultural diversity as it relates to music, musicians, and composers.
K-12.AR.TH.3.0: Students analyze the role and development of theatre, film/video, and electronic media in past and present cultures throughout the world, noting diversity as it relates to theatre.

LESSON PLAN IDEA: Students research Chinese inventions, such as gunpowder, paper, the seismograph, matches, and the compass.

Visit the artist’s website at www.goldendragonacrobats.com.

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Social Studies & Art
INCLUDES THREE VISITS TO YOUR CLASSROOM!

Grades 6-8

(sold out)

In this multimedia visual arts project your students will explore traditions of China. Working with local multicultural teaching artist, Judy Timmerman, students will create a work of art while exploring China’s unique geography, resources, and culture. Students will gain an appreciation for another culture and its traditions throughout the course of this project.

California Content Standards

6.HI.6.6: Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of China.
7.HI.7.3.5: Trace the historic influence of such discoveries as tea, the manufacture of paper, woodblock printing, the compass, and gunpowder.
6-8.HI.HI.2: Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long- and short-term causal relations.

Event Information

Friday, October 28 at 9:30am (sold out)
& 11:30am (sold out)

60 minutes

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