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A TEACHER’S GUIDE Field Trips • Workshops • Performances • Assemblies 2016-2017 DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS

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How to use the Directory: Look under major subject headings and then under grade levels to find appropriate programming. Remember to look look at the beginning of each section for “Adaptable to grade” for additional K-12 programs. 1. Contact the organization directly to schedule a program with possible dates and number of students. 2. Neither the SCFD nor SCC are responsible for errors. Copyright 2016 and 2017.

Questions about the Directory (not individual programs or bookings): SCC Coordinator, Charlotte D’Armond Talbert, 303-519-7772, [email protected] Photos provided by (clockwise from top left) Denver Art Museum; Taylor Smith, Visual Arts Educator at SkyView Academy; bottom-Golden History Museums by Jim Rabiolo. INDEX

GRADE LEVEL: SUBJECT: All = Adaptable to grade M = Middle School LA=Language Arts, Humanities and Foreign Language L = Lower Elementary H = High School Arts=Performing and Visual Arts U = Upper Elementary PD = Professional Development SM=Science, Math and Nature for Adults SS=Social Science, History and World Culture

ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION TITLE...... GRADE...... SUBJECT...... PAGE TITLE...... GRADE...... SUBJECT...... PAGE

ADAMS COUNTY MUSEUM – adamscountymuseum.com BIRD CONSERVANCY OF THE ROCKIES – birdconservancy.org Explore History School Tour...... L, U...... SS...... 44 Custom Environmental & Career Programs...... All...... SM...... 27 Barr Lake Bird Watch...... All...... SM...... 28 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER – alsd.org Barr Lake Banding Station...... All...... SM...... 28 Art Students League of Denver...... All...... Arts...... 9 Birds, Biology, And Outdoor Exploration...... All...... SM...... 28 Art Students League of Denver Teen Committee. H...... Arts...... 24 1/2 Day Bird Festival At Your School...... All...... SM...... 28 Art Students League of Denver Teen Council...... H...... Arts...... 24 Colorado Water And You!...... L, U...... SM...... 32 Art Students League of Denver Moxie...... PD...... Arts...... 26 Beautiful Birds...... L, U...... SM...... 32 Demo & Dialogue...... PD...... Arts...... 26 Migratory Mapping Or Migratory Data...... U, M...... SM...... 36

ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES – arvadacenter.org BOULDER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA – boulderphil.org Shakespeare’s Stage...... U, M, H...... LA...... 7 Discovery Concert For Kids...... U, M...... Arts...... 20 ARTS DAY...... All...... Arts...... 9 Junie B. Jones Children’s Musical...... L, U...... Arts...... 16 BUTTERFLY PAVILION – butterflies.org A Year with Frog and Toad Children’s Musical...... L, U...... Arts...... 16 Butterflies and More...... All...... SM...... 29 Museum and Pioneer Arts Days Butterfly Pavilion Virtual Classes...... L, U, M...... SM...... 29 OR Cultural Arts Days...... All...... SS...... 41 Metamorphosis MOVES ...... L...... SM, Arts...... 33 Songs and Tales from Colorado Trails ...... L, U...... SS...... 44 Teacher Workshops/Resources...... PD...... SM...... 40 Kusogea Nobi Drum Ensemble,...... L, M, U...... SS...... 44 CENTRAL CITY OPERA – centralcityopera.org AUDUBON SOCIETY OF GREATER DENVER – denveraudubon.org Opera Alive! Teaching Artists...... All, PD...... Arts...... 9 Beaver Habitat Investigation...... All...... SM...... 27 Music! Words! Opera! Residency ...... All...... Arts...... 10 Night Ninjas: Owls...... All...... SM...... 27 Mozart & Co...... L, U...... Arts...... 16 The Great Opera Mix-up...... L, U...... Arts...... 16 AURORA CULTURAL SERVICES DIVISION – auroragov.org Eureka Street...... L, U...... Arts...... 17 Theatre Residencies & Workshops...... All, PD...... Arts...... 9 How the West Was Sung...... U, M...... Arts...... 20 Performances...... All...... Arts...... 9 En Mis Palabras (In My Own Words) Art, Dance, Music Workshops...... U, M, H...... Arts...... 20 Bilingual opera...... M, H...... Arts...... 22 Aurora Dance Arts – auroragov.org Music! Words! Opera! Workshop The Nutcracker Ballet ...... All ...... Arts...... 9 for Educators at CU-Boulder ...... PD...... Arts...... 26 Aurora Fox Arts Center – aurorafoxartscenter.org Performance Previews...... H, PD...... Arts...... 25 CHERRYARTS - cherryarts.org Aurora History Museum - auroramuseum.org Mobile Art Gallery...... All...... Arts...... 10 Delaney Farm Historic Site Tour...... All...... SS...... 41 Janus Student Art Buying Program...... M, All...... Arts...... 23 Aurora City Council Chamber, Court House And Museum Tour...... L, U...... SS...... 44 CHICANO HUMANITIES AND ARTS COUNCIL – chacweb.org Aurora History Trunk...... L, U...... SS...... 44 Celebrate Latino Culture...... All...... Arts...... 10

L=Lower Elem. (PreK-2); U=Upper Elem. (3-6); M=Middle School (7-8); H=High School (9-12); PD=Professional Development (Adult) 2 2016-2017 DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS INDEX

ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION TITLE...... GRADE...... SUBJECT...... PAGE TITLE...... GRADE...... SUBJECT...... PAGE

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF DENVER AT COLORADO RAILROAD MUSEUM – coloradorailroadmuseum.org MARSICO CAMPUS – mychildsmuseum.org Trains! ...... L...... LA...... 6 The Gingerbread Man...... L...... Arts...... 17 Build an Exhibit at the Colorado Railroad Earth Balloon...... L...... SM...... 32 Museum ...... L...... Arts, SS, LA...... 21 Circle of Life...... L...... SM...... 32 Eating on the Rails...... U, M, H...... Arts, SS, LA...... 21 Star Lab...... L...... SM...... 32 Colorado Railroads On Your Own...... All...... SS, LA...... 41 STUFFEE ™...... L...... SM...... 32 Artifact Trunks ...... All...... SS, LA...... 41 Math Mysteries...... L...... SM...... 32 Westward to Colorado ...... U, M, H...... SS...... 45 Kinetic Engineers ...... L...... SM...... 32 World Dance and Drumming...... L...... SS...... 44 COLORADO SYMPHONY – coloradosymphony.org Master Mentors — Work With Symphony CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM – clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill Teaching Artists...... All...... Arts...... 12 Clyfford Still’s Visual Vocabulary...... U, M, H...... LA, Arts...... 7 Once Upon A Time –Storytelling With Music...... L, U...... Arts, LA...... 18 Digging Deeper with Questions...... U, M, H...... LA, Arts...... 7 Petite Musique - Music And Movement Connecting to Art through Poetry...... U, M, H...... LA, Arts...... 7 With Orchestra...... L...... Arts, LA...... 18 Choices Artists Make ...... U, M, H...... Arts, LA...... 20 Musicurious: Colorado Symphony Youth Transition to Abstraction...... U, M, H...... Arts, SS...... 21 Concerts - Symphonic Storytelling...... U, M...... Arts...... 21 Works on Paper...... U, M, H...... Arts...... 21 Musicurious: Drums Of The World...... U, M...... Arts, SS...... 21 Making Connections: Art and Life...... U, M, H...... SS, Arts, LA...... 44 Musicurious: Colorado Symphony World War II and Abstract Expressionism...... U, M, H...... SS, Arts, LA...... 45 Open Rehearsals...... M, H...... Arts...... 23 Music Of Life - Integrated Life Science COLORADO BALLET – coloradoballet.com/community And Music Program...... U, L...... SM, Arts...... 37 Words In Motion...... All...... LA...... 6 Mathnotes - Integrated Math Student Matinees...... All...... Arts...... 10 And Music Program...... U, L...... SM, Arts...... 37 Day of Dance...... All...... Arts...... 10 School Show: From the Page to the Stage...... All...... Arts, LA...... 11 DENVER ART MUSEUM – creativity.denverartmuseum.org Integrated & Technique Workshops - Ask us!...... All...... Arts, LA, SM, SS.... 11 Artful Literacy...... U...... LA, Arts...... 8 Creative Movement...... L, U...... Arts...... 17 Distance Learning Classes...... All...... Arts...... 12 Metamorphosis MOVES ...... L...... SM, Arts...... 33 Imagination Games & Skills...... L...... Arts, LA, SM, SS.... 18 Balance and Motion...... L, U...... SM, Arts...... 33 Pre-K Creative Explorers...... PreK...... Arts...... 18 Denver Art Museum Exhibition Tours: 2016-17....U, M, H...... Arts, LA, SM, SS.... 22 COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION – chautauqua.com Perception Games & Skills ...... U...... Arts, LA, SM, SS.... 22 Guided Tour of Colorado Chautauqua Denver Art Museum Highlights...... M, H...... Arts, SM, SS...... 23 National Historic Landmark...... M, H...... SS, Arts...... 45 Art & Culture Tours ...... All...... SS, LA, Arts...... 42

COLORADO CHILDREN’S CHORALE – childrenschorale.org DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS – botanicgardens.org In-School Choral Workshops/ Science Labs...... All...... SM...... 29 Master Class...... All, PD...... Arts...... 11 Cultivation Cruiser...... All...... SM...... 29 Kids Performing For Kids...... L, U...... Arts...... 17 Farm Tour...... All...... SM, SS...... 30 Kids Reaching And Teaching Kids Workshop...... L, U...... Arts...... 17 Guided Garden Field Trips at York Street ...... L, U, M...... SM...... 33 School Partnerships...... L, U, M...... Arts...... 18 Garden Discovery Days...... L...... SM...... 33 Denver Botanic Gardens at Plains COLORADO MOUNTAIN CLUB – cmc.org/yep Conservation Center Field Trips...... L, U ...... SM, SS...... 33 Navigation: Map, Compass, and GPS...... All...... SM...... 29 The Ecosystems of Chatfield...... U...... SM...... 38 Slacklining: Balance and Movement...... All...... SM...... 29 Denver Botanic Gardens at Plains Conservation Bouldering Bus...... All...... SM...... 29 Center Prairie Perspectives and Overnight...... U...... SM, SS...... 38 Science of Climbing ...... U, M...... SM...... 36 Colorado’s Geology – Mountains to Mesas ...... U, M...... SM...... 36 DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS – denvercenter.org Colorado Weather: from the Dramatic Learning™: Language Arts...... All...... LA...... 6 Mountains to the Plains ...... U...... SM...... 37 Dramatic Learning™: Master Classes Avalanche Safety and Snow Science...... U, M, H...... SM...... 37 in Theatre...... All...... Arts...... 12 Capturing the Climb: A Historical and Student Matinees...... M, H...... Arts, LA...... 23 Geographical Look at How and Career Exploration Days...... M, H...... Arts...... 23 Why People Climb Mountains...... U, M...... SM...... 37 Shakespeare in the Parking Lot...... H...... Arts...... 25 Theatre Arts Integration for Teachers...... PD...... Arts, LA, SM, SS.... 26 COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL AND CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS – comusic.org Dramatic Learning™: Science, Math, and Eurhythmics: Music From The Inside Out ...... All...... Arts...... 11 Nature...... All...... SM...... 30 Music Teaching Artist Outreach ...... All...... Arts...... 11 Dramatic Learning™: Social Science and Musical Instrument Bank...... All...... Arts...... 12 History...... All...... SS...... 41 Meet The Instruments...... All...... Arts...... 12 Music Therapy Groups...... All...... Arts...... 12 THE DENVER CONCERT BAND – denverconcertband.org Show and Tell Band...... U...... Arts...... 22

L=Lower Elem. (PreK-2); U=Upper Elem. (3-6); M=Middle School (7-8); H=High School (9-12); PD=Professional Development (Adult) 2016-2017 DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS 3 INDEX

ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION TITLE...... GRADE...... SUBJECT...... PAGE TITLE...... GRADE...... SUBJECT...... PAGE DENVER FILM SOCIETY – denverfilm.com LAKEWOOD HERITAGE, CULTURE AND THE ARTS, CITY OF – .lakewood.org Integrated Curriculum: Films at A Guided Tour Of William Shakespeare’s Much the Sie Film Center...... M, H, All...... Arts, LA...... 23 Ado About Nothing...... M, H...... LA...... 8 Connect Film to Your Classroom...... M, U, H, All...... Arts, LA...... 23 Arts Outreach Experience...... All...... Arts...... 12 Young Filmmakers Workshop...... H, M, All...... Arts...... 25 James And The Giant Peach...... L...... Arts...... 19 Agriculture Museum Tour...... All...... SS...... 42 DENVER FIREFIGHTERS MUSEUM – denverfirefightersmuseum.org Commercial Growth Museum Tour...... All...... SS...... 42 Fire Safety Outreach...... All...... SM...... 30 Community Culture Museum Tour...... All...... SS...... 42 Historical Decade Trunks...... All...... SS...... 42 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE – dmns.org/teachers Museum Admission...... All...... SM...... 30 LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP – lighthousewriters.org Field Trip Adventures...... L, U, M...... SM...... 34 Lighthouse Young Writers Program Creative Mystery At The Museum...... L, U, M...... SM...... 38 Writing Workshops...... U, M, H...... LA...... 8 At Your School Experiences...... U, M...... SM...... 38 Scientists In Action...... U, M...... SM...... 38 LITTLETON TOWN HALL ARTS CENTER – townhallartscenter.org Virtual Classes...... U, M...... SM...... 38 Participation Plays And Acting Workshops...... All...... Arts...... 12 Teacher Programs – Early Childhood...... PD...... SM...... 40 Teacher Programs - K-12...... PD...... SM...... 40 LONE TREE ARTS CENTER - lonetreeartscenter.org Skippyjon Jones Snow What- Theatre DENVER ZOO – denverzoo.org/education Performance...... L...... LA...... 6 Zoo Ed-Venture Trek...... All...... SM...... 30 Fiesta Colorado...... M, H...... LA...... 8 Assemblies...... All...... SM...... 30 Dinosaur Zoo Live – Theatre Performance...... L, U...... SM...... 36 Classes...... All...... SM...... 30 Bodyguard! Protector of the Anatomy Bunk With The Beasts ...... All...... SM...... 31 (Guardaespaldas! Protector de Anatomía)...... L...... LA...... 36 New! Afterschool Enrichment Programs...... L, U...... SM...... 34 National Geographic Live –National Geographic Service Learning Programs...... U, H...... SM...... 38 Live-On the Trail of Big Cats...... M, H...... SM...... 39 Career Workshops...... M, H...... SM...... 39 National Geographic Live – The Lens Updated! Young Scientists...... M, H...... SM...... 39 of Adventure...... M, H...... SM...... 39 National Geographic Live – The Search of DINOSAUR RIDGE – dinoridge.org Life Beyond Earth...... M, H...... SM...... 39 Outdoor Tour Of Four Dinosaur Sites On National Geographic Live - Spinosaurus: Dinosaur Ridge (the Hogback)...... All...... SM...... 31 Lost Giant of the Cretaceous...... M, H...... SM...... 40

ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS – elkkids.org MACC AT THE ROBERT E. LOUP JCC – maccjcc.org Just Keep Swimming...... U, M, H...... SM...... 38 Out Loud: Poetry and Performance...... All...... LA...... 6 No Joke: Cartooning...... All...... Arts, LA...... 13 ETOWN – etown.org Theatre Residencies...... All...... Arts...... 13 Handmade Songs Series, Original The Jungle Book: Denver Children’s Theatre...... L, U, M...... Arts...... 19 Songwriting Program...... H...... Arts...... 25 Polygon Patterns...... U, L, M...... SM, Arts...... 39 So Solid...... M ...... SM, Arts...... 40 FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC – friendsofchambermusic.com Good Vibrations: Communicating MCA DENVER (Museum of Contemporary Art Denver) – mcadenver.org Through Music...... U, M...... Arts...... 22 Art Fitness Training Tour...... L, U...... Arts...... 19 Art Fitness Highlights...... M, H...... Arts...... 24 GOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUMS – goldenhistory.org MCA Denver’s Teen Program: Failure Lab...... H...... Arts...... 25 Building Colorado...... U...... SS...... 45 Art Goes Everywhere...... H...... Arts...... 25 MCA Denver’s Ambassadors...... H...... Arts...... 26 GROWING GARDENS – growinggardens.org Free Range Fridays...... H...... Arts...... 26 Growing Gardens...... L, U...... SM...... 34 MIZEL MUSEUM - mizelmuseum.org THE HUDSON GARDENS & EVENT CENTER – hudsongardens.org Stories Rock! Connecting Cultures The Buzz about Bees...... All...... SM...... 31 Through Storytelling...... All...... LA...... 6 Let’s Get Growing! ...... L, U...... SM...... 34 Living In Tune: The Unifying Power Frog Quest ...... L, U...... SM...... 35 of Song...... All...... Arts...... 13 Making Sense ...... L...... SM...... 35 4,000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks...... All...... SS...... 42 Woodland Wonders ...... L, U...... SM...... 35 Bridges Of Cultural Understanding...... All...... SS, LA...... 42 Leaf Lookout ...... L, U...... SM...... 35 Holocaust Awareness Education...... M, H ...... SS...... 46 Secret Spaces ...... L, U...... SM...... 35 At The Table With Dr. King...... M, H...... SS...... 46 Nature Hunt...... L, U...... SM...... 35 Finding Freedom: A New Life In America...... M, H...... SS...... 46 Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (CELL)...... M, H, All...... SS...... 46

MOLLY BROWN HOUSE MUSEUM – mollybrown.org Interactive Museum Tours and Classroom Programs...... All...... SS...... 43

L=Lower Elem. (PreK-2); U=Upper Elem. (3-6); M=Middle School (7-8); H=High School (9-12); PD=Professional Development (Adult) 4 2016-2017 DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS INDEX

ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION TITLE...... GRADE...... SUBJECT...... PAGE TITLE...... GRADE...... SUBJECT...... PAGE MUSEUM OF OUTDOOR ARTS (MOA) – moaonline.org REDLINE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER – redlineart.org Public Art Education Outreach: EPIC Arts...... All...... Arts...... 15 Understanding The Public Art Process...... All...... Arts...... 13 Art Tours: Outdoor Sculpture and/or ROCKY MOUNTAIN QUILT MUSEUM – rmqm.org Indoor Gallery Exhibitions...... All...... Arts...... 13 Historical Quilt Trunk Shows...... U, M, H...... SS...... 45

OPERA COLORADO – operacolorado.org...... SWALLOW HILL MUSIC – swallowhillmusic.org Backstage Workshops...... All ...... Arts...... 13 The Blues: A True American Art...... All ...... Arts, SS...... 15 Opera in a Trunk...... All...... Arts, LA, SS...... 13 Irish Music & Dance: The Cultural Connection.....All...... Arts, SS...... 15 Opera on Tour -- The Barber of Seville...... All...... Arts, LA, SS...... 14 Bluegrass & Beyond...... All ...... Arts, SS...... 15 Opera on Tour – The Scarlet Modern Music: Making Beats and Songs...... All ...... Arts...... 15 Letter (semi staged)...... U, M, H...... Arts, LA, SS...... 14 Sing Along, Move Along...... L ...... Arts...... 20 Opera on Tour – The Elixir of Love – NEW! ...... All...... Arts, LA, SS...... 14 Rhythm: A Multicultural Music Experience ...... All ...... SS, Arts...... 43 Student Matinee – Donizetti’s Sound Ideas from Around the World...... All ...... SS, Arts...... 43 Lucia di Lammermoor ...... All...... Arts...... 14 Colorado History through Song ...... All ...... SS, Arts...... 43 Student Dress Rehearsals...... M, H...... Arts...... 24 Arias & Ensembles...... M, H, PD...... Arts, LA, SS...... 24 TESORO CULTURAL CENTER – tesoroculturalcenter.org Tesoro Cultural Center Living PARKER ARTS CULTURE AND EVENTS CENTER (PACE) – parkerarts.org/schools History School Tour...... All...... SS...... 43 Beauty and the Beast: Children’s Musical Theater Performance...... All...... Arts...... 14 THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING – think360arts.org Rock the Presidents: Children’s Musical Artist Residencies And Performances...... All, PD...... Arts, LA, SS, SM.... 16 Theater Performance...... L, U, M...... Arts...... 19 Super Scientific Circus: Children’s Theater WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM – WingsMuseum.org Performance...... L, U, M...... Arts...... 19 Self-guided Museum Tour...... All...... SM...... 31 Berenstain Bears Live!: Children’s Musical Aviation Exploration...... All...... SM...... 31 Theater Performance...... L, U...... Arts...... 19 Speakers Bureau...... All...... SM...... 31 Mr. Popper’s Penguins: Children’s Musical Flight Engineer...... L, U...... SM...... 36 Theater Performance...... L, U, M ...... Arts...... 20 Wings Over the Rockies Teacher Diary of Anne Frank: Theater Performance...... M, H...... SS, Arts...... 40 Flight Program...... PD...... SM...... 40 Cirque Montage: World Cultural Performance...... All...... SS...... 43 Laura Ingalls Wilder: Children’s Musical WOW! CHILDREN’S MUSEUM – wowchildrensmuseum.org Theater...... L, U, M...... SS...... 43 Romping Stomping Dinosaurs...... L...... SM...... 36

 SEEKING SCHOOLS FOR $8,000 ALLIANCE PROJECT GRANT Apply in Spring 2017 for the Alliance Project Grant — assemblies, field trips, buses, subs and workshops provided to one public school in Adams, Boulder, Denver or Jefferson County. See www.SCCollaborative.org in December for details, applications and eligibility requirements or contact us at [email protected]

ADAPTABLE TO GRADE OUT LOUD: POETRY AND LOWER ELEMENTARY PERFORMANCE WORDS IN MOTION On-Campus Activity TRAINS! Grades: Adaptable to grade On-Campus Activity On-Campus Activity Encourage your students to explore the Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: L (PreK-1st grade) power of words and their own voice! Students Students strengthen their knowledge of Learn the difference between a passenger create collaborative poetry, then experience vocabulary words and sentence writing in and freight car, a caboose and locomotive vocal and physical theatre exercises. This this movement driven lesson. Students will and the work they do on this fun, activity- workshop builds confidence in presentation explore embodiments and definitions of based tour that brings students up close and skills whether performing poetry, reading words and create dances based on their personal to real trains! aloud, or presenting projects. understanding of sentence writing. Cost: $4 per child, one supervisor for Cost: $5/person (minimum fee/$100) Cost: $100 every five children (under 12). Supervisors Availability: Year-round Availability: Inquire receive free Museum admission. MACC at the Robert E. Loup JCC Colorado Ballet Availability: By reservation maccjcc.org coloradoballet.com/community Colorado Railroad Museum 303-316-6302 303-339-1632 ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org [email protected] [email protected] 303-279-4581 / 800-365-6263 [email protected] STORIES ROCK! CONNECTING DRAMATIC LEARNING™: CULTURES THROUGH STORYTELLING LANGUAGE ARTS SKIPPYJON JONES SNOW WHAT- On-Campus Activity or Field Trip On-Campus Activity or Field Trip THEATRE PERFORMANCE Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Field Trip Celebrate diversity with our storytelling These workshops are designed to either Grades: L programs! Storytelling across Cultures: introduce or supplement your lesson using Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the bravest Cherie Karo Schwartz transports students interactive theatre exercises to address Chihuahua of them all? Skippyjon Jones to different places and times through her multiple learning styles. Past language the Siamese cat who thinks he’s a Mexican dynamic stories. Combine with a field trip to arts workshops include: Understanding Chihuahua of course! While his sisters listen provide students with a visual experience Shakespeare, Writing and Performing Poetry, to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Skippy that complements the stories. Stories that Playwriting, Personal Narratives, Grammar heads off for a REAL adventure awaiting him Create Understanding: Through poetry and Games and more. in his closet. A new musical adapted from song, Ayinde Russell explores the power of Cost: $100 per class Judy Schachner’s book, Skippyjon Jones words and how our narratives influence our Availability: Sep-May Snow What is a fun twist on the classic interpretations. Using interactive activities, Denver Center for the fairytale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ayinde helps students uncover their own Performing Arts Cost: $5/student (up to 10 chaperones stories and identify commonalties with others. denvercenter.org free) Cost: Classroom (up to 40 students, 15 303-893-6006 Availability: May 2 and 3, 2017 student minimum) $10/student [email protected] Lone Tree Arts Center Assembly (over 40 students) $250 plus LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools $1/student. 720-509-1000 Please inquire about field trip pricing. [email protected] Availability: Year-round Mizel Museum mizelmuseum.org 303-749-5016 [email protected]

L=Lower Elem. (PreK-2); U=Upper Elem. (3-6); M=Middle School (7-8); H=High School (9-12); PD=Professional Development (Adult) 6 2016-2017 DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS LANGUAGE ARTS, HUMANITIES AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE

UPPER ELEMENTARY MIZEL MUSEUM SHAKESPEARE’S STAGE Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Grades: U, M, H “All the world’s a stage!” Participants explore Shakespeare’s world in this acting workshop that combines literature with performing arts. Fun tongue twisters from Hamlet, fairy scenes from A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, and acting games give participants a brief look at this famous playwright. Discover creative Shakespearean phrases and ease the understanding of Shakespeare’s dialogue through a trivia game and original comedic radio play based on six of Shakespeare’s works. Cost: $255 in house and outreach Availability: Outreach Year-round/Daily in- house programs run 9am-4pm, Mon-Fri Arvada Center for the Arts and DIGGING DEEPER WITH QUESTIONS CONNECTING TO ART THROUGH Humanities Field Trip POETRY arvadacenter.org Grades: U, M, H Field Trip 720-898-7240 Students explore Clyfford Still’s work by Grades: U, M, H [email protected] using the strategy of questioning, beginning In this lesson, students look closely at with brainstorming as many questions as Clyfford Still’s art before using it as a CLYFFORD STILL’S VISUAL possible and then narrowing them down springboard to express their own creative VOCABULARY into meaty questions they try to answer. ideas and thoughts. Students experiment with Field Trip Students connect their questions with artwork different poetry forms. Students share poems Grades: U, M, H observations to make inferences about the with one another and discuss how creative In order to understand an artist and his or her “answers.” Students work in small groups of writing is one way to connect to and interpret work, we need to know how to read, write and 5-7 in this art and literacy integrated lesson Still’s art. Students work in small groups of talk about art to interpret meaning. Students grounded in the workshop model. 5-7 in this art and literacy integrated lesson make observations and draw inferences Cost: Free to all schools; bus funds may grounded in the workshop model. based on viewing Clyfford Still’s work while be available. Cost: Free to all schools; bus funds may be acquiring knowledge on the elements of art Availability: Approx. 90 minutes Tues-Fri available. and principles of design. Students work in morning. 3 weeks advance scheduling Availability: Approx. 90 minutes Tues-Fri small groups of 5-7 in this art and literacy and requested. 30 student capacity unless morning. 3 weeks advance scheduling integrated lesson grounded in the workshop special request. requested. 30 student capacity unless special model. Clyfford Still Museum request. Cost: Free to all schools; bus funds may clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill Clyfford Still Museum be available. 720-354-4877 clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill Availability: Approx. 90 minutes Tues-Fri [email protected] 720-354-4877 morning. 3 weeks advance scheduling [email protected] requested. 30 student capacity unless special request. Clyfford Still Museum clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill 720-354-4877 [email protected]

DENVER ART MUSEUM

ARTFUL LITERACY MIDDLE SCHOOL & Field Trip FIESTA COLORADO DANCE Grades: U HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMANCE This interactive tour encourages students to Theatre Performance practice language arts skills and explore art GUIDED TOUR OF WILLIAM Field Trip from around the world. Students practice oral SHAKESPEARE’S MUCH ADO ABOUT Grades: M, H language and descriptive writing while honing NOTHING Fiesta Colorado Dance Company focuses observation skills, building their vocabulary on preserving and presenting the Hispanic Field Trip to use precise and sensory language. dance arts of Colorado. Joined by the Grades: M, H Addresses 21st Century Skills and 2009 CO live band Mariachi Sol de Mi Tierra, this Aquila Theatre presents this guided tour Academic Standards. performance - with its magnetic energy and not as a condensed version of the play, but Cost: FREE for students and adult vivacious choreography - is a demonstration rather as an educational performance meant chaperones; one chaperone for every 10 of how Mexican folkloric dance embodies the to guide the student audience through the students. Divide class into groups of 10. richest artistic manifestations of culture and play’s key scenes. An actor hosts the tour Bus transportation funding assistance tradition. by introducing the main characters and available for designated Title I schools to Cost: $5/student (up to 10 chaperones providing a narrative link between key scenes cover up to 90% of total costs. free) which are acted out in full costume, often Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45 & 11am Availability: February 28, 2017 with the full set and props used for an actual starting Sep 6, 2016. Lone Tree Arts Center performance. Includes Q&A session. Field trip reservations must be booked at LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools Cost $8/person least three weeks in advance. To reserve, 720-509-1000 Availability: Limited call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ [email protected] Fri, Nov 19, 2016, 11am-Noon denverartmuseum.org. Lakewood Cultural Center Denver Art Museum lakewood.org creativity.denverartmuseum.org 303-987-7893 [email protected] LIGHTHOUSE YOUNG WRITERS PROGRAM CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Grades: U, M, H Led by working, published writers with a passion for sharing their craft, our creative writing workshops for grades 3-12 provide access to our innovative programming for young people of all ability levels throughout Denver. Our instructors actively engage students in the art of creative writing, provide new tools for self-expression, and increase literacy skills through innovative methods of teaching writing. Because we know much of school curriculum is already in place, we customize workshops in a variety of genres and formats to fit the needs of your classroom. Cost: Email Roxanne@lighthousewriters. org to discuss pricing on an individual basis. Availability: Sep through May, during school hours and some after-school hours Lighthouse Writers Workshop lighthousewriters.org 303-297-1185 [email protected] Tell us you “found the program in the Directory!”

LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP

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ADAPTABLE TO GRADE THE NUTCRACKER BALLET PERFORMANCES Field Trip On-Campus Activity ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Join Aurora Dance Arts for the magic of The Interactive school assembly or classroom Field Trip Nutcracker Ballet. Young Clara finds her performances include; African, African- Grade: Adaptable to grade Prince Charming in her dreamland of the American and Native-American Story Tellers, See our creative community in action! ASLD sugar plum fairy and dancing sweets. This Shakespeare’s Fools and Shakespeare’s is an inclusive, inspiring art school and family friendly production is timeless, exposes Scoundrels, and the Native American tale, The community offering classes for all ages. There children to the classical music of Tchaikovsky Four Wishes, told with puppets and masks. is something to peak any interest: from our and the gorgeous world of ballet, and is an Cost: Varies, Call for details. historic building with a mind of its own, to absolute must see during the holiday season. Availability: Year-round paint splattered studios, to our wide variety of Teaching guides are available. Aurora Cultural Services Division exhibitions. Incorporate the visual arts into your Cost: $4/student (pre-schools), $6/student auroragov.org/arts curriculum with a tour of ASLD and enrich your PK-12, 1 free chaperone/10 students, $6 303-739-6520 students’ learning experiences through art. additional chaperones. [email protected] Cost: FREE for self-guided gallery visit Availability: Dec 7 and 8, 2016, 9:30am and or a small fee may be charged for more 12noon OPERA ALIVE! TEACHING ARTISTS customized programs Field Trip to a the Aurora Fox Arts Center Availability: Year-round On-Campus Activity Aurora Cultural Services Division – Art Students League of Denver (ASLD) Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD Aurora Dance Arts ASLD.org Call on Central City Opera’s Teaching Artists auroragov.org/dance Contact: Ama Mills-Robertson, Program to help augment your curriculum. Students 303-326-8308 Director at 303-778-6990 x1105, a.mills@ gain confidence and technique in workshops [email protected] asld.org or master classes in singing, instrumental music, composition, stagecraft, movement THEATRE RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS ARTS DAY or any other related activity. Master classes On-Campus Activity can include a short performance by artists Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD followed by individual or group coaching. Grades: Adaptable to grade Standard & custom designed workshops; Other workshops include Cooking & Math ARTS DAY! Integrate the arts into your Native American & African Folk Tales, Story (led by a CCO orchestra musician/chef) and curriculum with workshops taught by Telling, Greek Mythology, Creative Dramatics, Science & Singing (led by a Doctor of Voice professional artists! Focused, standards- Shakespeare, Improvisation, Reader’s Performance). based workshops are available in music, Theatre, Self Esteem, Creative Thinking & Cost: Varies according to program dance, visual arts, humanities and performing Problem Solving, Poetry, Communication, Availability: Year-round, region-wide arts. Arts Days can include children’s theater Stage Combat, Dialects, Public Speaking, Length: varies according to program production, and workshop(s) and a gallery Reading for Fluency, Writing & Adapting Plays. Central City Opera or museum tour. Outreaches are customized Cost: varies, call for details centralcityopera.org and scheduled based on groups’ needs. Availability: Year-round 303-331-7026 For complete program listing & descriptions Aurora Cultural Services Division [email protected] visit arvadacenter.org/education/arts-day. auroragov.org/arts Discounts are available for Title 1 schools. 303-739-6520 Cost: Student prices range from $9 to [email protected] $12 Adult prices range from $9 to $12, Discounts for Title I. Assembly prices range from $250 to $500 Availability: Outreach Year-round/Daily, In- house programs run 10am-4pm, Mon-Fri Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities arvadacenter.org 720-898-7240 [email protected] L=Lower Elem. (PreK-2); U=Upper Elem. (3-6); M=Middle School (7-8); H=High School (9-12); PD=Professional Development (Adult) 2016-2017 DIRECTORY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS 9 PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

MUSIC! WORDS! OPERA! RESIDENCY On-Campus Activity Grades: Adaptable to grade Nothing jump-starts kids’ creative juices like the opportunity to write and perform their own musical story. The process of researching/ scripting a story and writing/composing lyrics and music develops problem-solving and team skills while providing practical applications of core disciplines like math, reading/writing, history and geography. Experienced teaching artists are available to assist in applying methods from Opera America’s Music! Words! Opera! curriculum. Cost: Varies. Call for details. Availability: Year-round, region-wide Central City Opera centralcityopera.org CHERRYARTS 303-331-7026 [email protected] STUDENT MATINEES MOBILE ART GALLERY Field Trip On-Campus Exhibit Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Student matinees provide an authentic A traveling gallery of original works of art in experience for your students to see the a self contained exhibit for the whole school artistry of professional dancers at the Ellie to enjoy. The collection is very hands-on Caulkins Opera House at the DPAC. Swan for students with set-up, take down, docent Lake (2nd grade & up, due to length, Oct training and a program guide of educational 6, 10am); Masterworks (all grades, Feb tools to use with the exhibit. Exhibit on- 16, 10:30am). Study guides available. See campus for two weeks. details on our website. Cost: Grant funding available, please go Cost: $10/student to: CherryArts.org/MAGgrant Colorado Ballet Availability: Sept-April coloradoballet.com/community CherryArts 303-339-1619 cherryarts.org [email protected] 303-355-2787 [email protected] DAY OF DANCE Field Trip CELEBRATE LATINO CULTURE Grades: Adaptable to grade Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Day of Dance is a field trip available to Grades: Adaptable to grade students at all grade levels. Bring up to Vibrant and creative art workshops which 150 students to Colorado Ballet’s studios celebrate Latino culture for students pre for a rotation of introductory classes in a k- adult. Choose from a variety of programs variety of dance styles and tour Colorado such as Mexican sugar skull decorating, Ballet’s facilities, including the costume God’s Eye weavings, Painting on amate shop. Classes may include: ballet, creative paper, Juego de Loteria-Mexican bingo, Aztec movement, jazz, tap, West African, modern and Mayan masks and more. Workshops and dance, improvisation, swing/blues, folkloric tours at our Santa Fe Drive location or on and square/contra dance. your campus. Cost: $7/student Cost $5 per student $60 minimum for 10 Availability: Inquire students or less. Colorado Ballet CHICANO HUMANITIES AND ARTS Availability Year-round coloradoballet.com/community COUNCIL Chicano Humanities and Arts Council 303-339-1632 CHAC Gallery and Cultural Center [email protected] 303 571-0440 [email protected] chacweb.org

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AURORA CULTURAL SERVICES DIVISION

SCHOOL SHOW: FROM THE PAGE TO IN-SCHOOL CHORAL WORKSHOPS/ THE STAGE MASTER CLASS On-Campus Activity On-Campus Activity Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD Studio Company dancers perform excerpts General Music teachers or Choral Directors from ballets based on Shakespeare and collaborate with a Children’s Chorale literary classics. The stories and how they conductor to design a performance were translated into dance, as well as pointe workshop or master class for their students. shoes, male roles in dance, etc. are all Topics include all aspects of performance, addressed. including singing, dancing, acting and stage Cost: $300 ($500 two shows) movement. Availability: Inquire Cost: $150/hour Colorado Ballet Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring COLORADO BALLET coloradoballet.com/community Mon-Thurs during school hours 303-339-1619 Colorado Children’s Chorale [email protected] childrenschorale.org 303.892.5600, ext. 406 MUSIC TEACHING ARTIST OUTREACH INTEGRATED & TECHNIQUE [email protected] Field Trip or On-Campus Activity WORKSHOPS - ASK US! Grades: Adaptable to grade On-Campus Activity EURHYTHMICS: MUSIC FROM Professional instrumental or vocal musician- Grades: Adaptable to grade THE INSIDE OUT teachers from the Center for Musical Arts will We are open to and excited about developing Field Trip or On-Campus Activity come to your school or you can come to us in dance-integrated workshops that fit with Grades: Adaptable to grade Lafayette. Available to help band, orchestra, your curriculum. Movement can be utilized Founded by Swiss composer & music or choral directors by providing clinics or in several core subject areas to better educator, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, sectional coachings, masterclasses, special understand or explore a concept. Current Eurhythmics is a method of learning/ theory/history topics, or provide solo or small integrated workshops include: Social Dances experiencing music through movement. ensemble performances. We will customize of Yesterday & Today; Moving the Moon Creative exploration of musical concepts, to suit your individual needs. Phases; World Dances: West African; and involving improvisation and nurturing Cost: Varies; negotiable Math in Motion. Please feel free to ask us imagination. Taught by highly-trained Availability: Year-round about a subject you’re interested in bringing Dalcroze music educators from Center for Colorado Music Festival and Center movement to! Musical Arts. for Musical Arts Cost: $100-200 Cost: Varies; negotiable COmusic.org Availability: Inquire Availability: Year-round 303-665.0599 x100 Colorado Ballet Colorado Music Festival and Center [email protected] (preferred contact) coloradoballet.com/community for Musical Arts 303-339-1619 COmusic.org [email protected] 303-665-0599 x100 [email protected] (preferred contact)

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT BANK MUSIC THERAPY GROUPS DRAMATIC LEARNING™: MASTER Resource for schools On-Campus Activity CLASSES IN THEATRE Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade On-Campus Activity or Field Trip Wind, brass, string, and percussion Our professional music therapists will Grades: Adaptable to grade instrument rentals on a sliding scale as build group curriculum designed to fit Tailored in-school theatre workshops are low as $5 a month for students who would your students’ needs. Our therapists have led by experienced teaching artists and otherwise not be able to participate in their experience with almost any population but theatre professionals who address multiple school’s instrumental music programs. specialize in Autism Spectrum Disorders, learning styles and require full participation Cost: Varies; negotiable Seniors, and At-Risk Youth. from students and teachers. Past workshops Availability: Year-round Cost: Varies; negotiable include: Short Form Improvisation, Long Colorado Music Festival and Center Availability: Year-round Form Improvisation, Character Development, for Musical Arts Colorado Music Festival and Center Shakespeare, Clowning, Storytelling, and COmusic.org for Musical Arts many more. 303-665.0599 x100 COmusic.org Cost: $100 per class [email protected] (preferred contact) 303-665.0599 x100 Availability: Sep-May [email protected] (preferred contact) Denver Center for the MEET THE INSTRUMENTS Performing Arts Field Trip or On-Campus Activity MASTER MENTORS — WORK WITH denvercenter.org Grades: Adaptable to grade SYMPHONY TEACHING ARTISTS 303-893-6006 Explore wind, brass, percussion, string, and/ In-Class [email protected] or keyboard instruments with CMF&CMA Grades: Adaptable to grade faculty members. Students will see it, hear it, Highly flexible program supporting music ARTS OUTREACH EXPERIENCE and have the opportunity to play it! students of any grade. Could include: Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Cost: Varies; negotiable coaching for band/orchestra students, career Grades: Adaptable to grade Availability: Year-round path advice for students, general music Experience fun and engaging workshops, Colorado Music Festival and Center workshops that support specific units of residencies or performances with for Musical Arts study such as music of the Renaissance, professional artists. Workshops or COmusic.org composition/improvisation, or another specific residencies can be customized to fit your 303-665.0599 x102 request that a music teacher may have. class needs. We offer topics in painting, [email protected] (preferred contact) Cost: $120 per 60 minute session per mixed media, pottery, weaving, dance, musician theater, writing, music and more. Available at Availability: Sep-May Washington Heights Art Center, Lakewood Colorado Symphony Cultural Center or in your classroom! coloradosymphony.org Cost Varies, please call for details Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 Availability: Sep-May [email protected] Lakewood Cultural Center/ Washington Heights Art Center DISTANCE LEARNING CLASSES lakewood.org Resource - Distance learning 303-987-7877 Grades: Adaptable to grade [email protected] We can bring the museum to your K-12 classroom! Our interactive distance learning PARTICIPATION PLAYS AND classes will challenge students to think ACTING WORKSHOPS critically, solve problems, and generate new Field Trip or On-Campus Activity ideas. Class topics vary. All classes address Grades: Adaptable to grade 21st Century Skills, 2009 Colorado Academic Participation plays where the students help Standards, and Common Core. perform the show. Acting and literature Cost: $50, limited scholarships available workshops that can be tailored to your class. upon request. Plays include: Little Red Riding Hood, Alice Contact Kristina Mahoney at kmahoney@ in Wonderland and others. Workshops: denverartmuseum.org at least a month in Shakespeare, stage combat, improv, advance to schedule a class. character creation, and more! Denver Art Museum Cost: $7/student creativity.denverartmuseum.org Availability: Year-round Littleton Town Hall Arts Center townhallartscenter.org 303-794-2787 x 217 [email protected]

COLORADO MUSIC FESTIVAL AND CENTER FOR MUSICAL ARTS

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NO JOKE: CARTOONING LIVING IN TUNE: THE UNIFYING POWER ART TOURS On-Campus Activity OF SONG Outdoor Sculpture and/or Indoor Gallery Grades: Adaptable to grade On-Campus Activity Exhibitions At Museum Explore the art of comic books from Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade superheroes to graphic novels and Living in Tune uses music to address how Tour MOA’s current exhibition at its experience a hands-on workshop led by we relate to one another, how to react indoor galleries or go outdoors and tour a professional cartoonist. Best suited for positively when conflict arises, and how living MOA’s permanent sculpture collection at grades 3-12, program time is flexible 90 harmoniously with others promotes a more Englewood Civic Center or in Greenwood minutes or 2 hours. respectful and peaceful world. Musicians Village by Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre. Cost: $8/person (minimum fee/$160) Sheldon and Kathleen Sands lead group Guided and self-guided tours are available. Availability: Year-round discussions on these topics interspersed with Transportation/Bus grants may also be MACC at the Robert E. Loup JCC performances of different songs, including available if needed. maccjcc.org “We Can Work it Out” (the Beatles), “Count Cost: FREE 303-316-6302 on Me” (Bruno Mars), “Let’s Call the Whole Availability: Please call to schedule tour in [email protected] Thing Off” (Gershwin), and “Imagine” (John advance. Lennon). MOA (Museum of Outdoor Arts) THEATRE RESIDENCIES Cost: Classroom (up to 40 students, 30 moaonline.org On-Campus Activity or Field Trip student minimum) $10/student 303-806-0444 x0 Grades: Adaptable to grade Assembly (over 40 students) $250 plus [email protected] MACC’s Theatre Department offers $1/student workshops and artists’ residencies. Cross Scholarships available BACKSTAGE WORKSHOPS curricular residencies can be developed to Availability: Year-round Field Trip integrate arts in to math, science, or history. Mizel Museum Grades: Adaptable to grade Workshops can also focus on theatre skills mizelmuseum.org The Ellie Caulkins Opera House becomes such as Shakespeare, improvisation and 303-749-5016 a living classroom as students visit a variety storydrama. [email protected] of stations and learn about what it takes to Cost: varies/negotiable produce opera. Explore the world behind Availability: Year-round PUBLIC ART EDUCATION OUTREACH: the curtain with hands-on workshops on MACC at the Robert E. Loup JCC UNDERSTANDING THE PUBLIC ART costuming, makeup, singing, stage combat, maccjcc.org PROCESS conducting and more. Opera Colorado’s 303-316-6302 On-Campus Activity most popular educational programs, these [email protected] Grades: Adaptable to grade (K-12) workshops sell out quickly! MOA staff can prepare a visual presentation Cost: $10 student, $15 chaperone and discuss the public art process so that Availability: Nov 8, 9 10, 10am-12 students can learn more about the art they May 8, 10, 12, 10am-12 see in public places around their town. Opera Colorado Students can create their own imaginary operacolorado.org/education/ public art works after learning about the 303-778-7350 process. [email protected] Cost: FREE Availability: Inquire for availability OPERA IN A TRUNK MOA (Museum of Outdoor Arts) On-Campus Activity moaonline.org Grades: Adaptable to grade 303-806-0444 x0 Opera Colorado is offering four Opera in a [email protected] Trunk programs: Barber of Seville, Elixir of Love, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Opera for Beginners trunk, which highlights the world’s most popular materials, costumes, props, and activities that make opera come alive. A study guide supplements learning and prepares students for seeing a performance. The program includes an interactive presentation by an Opera Colorado Teaching Artist. Cost: $100 Availability: Sep-May, Tues-Fri Opera Colorado operacolorado.org/education/ 303-778-7350 Tell us you “found the program [email protected] in the Directory!”

OPERA ON TOUR – THE BARBER OF OPERA ON TOUR – THE ELIXIR OF LOVE LITTLETON TOWN HALL SEVILLE – NEW! ARTS CENTER On-Campus Activity On-Campus Activity Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Figaro, Figaro, Fiiiiigaro! Barber by day, Nemorino loves the town’s brainy beauty, matchmaker by night, Figaro puts his charms Adina. When Nemorino thinks he has won to work as he helps Count Almaviva woo the her, the dashing sergeant Belcore arrives and beautiful Rosina. She’s such a catch that her sets his sights upon Adina. Nemorino asks a guardian keeps her under lock and key with traveling salesman to sell him a powerful elixir the intent of marrying her himself. But no of love that will show Adina that Nemorino challenge is too great for Figaro’s madcap is the one. Romance and comedy ensue as schemes! Filled with some of opera’s most Adina tries to choose her true love. Set in tunes, this is a comedy not to miss! old-west Colorado, this is a perfect way to Cost: $600 for one performance, $700 for incorporate local history into your curriculum! two back-to-back performances Cost: $600 for one performance, $700 for Availability: Oct-May two back-to-back performances Opera Colorado Availability: Jan-May operacolorado.org/education/ Opera Colorado 303-778-7350 operacolorado.org/education/ [email protected] 303-778-7350 [email protected] OPERA ON TOUR – THE SCARLET LETTER (SEMI STAGED) STUDENT MATINEE – DONIZETTI’S On-Campus Activity LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Grades: U, M, H Field Trip A brand new American opera premiered in Grades: Adaptable to grade May 2016 by Opera Colorado, The Scarlet Set in the 17th century Lammermoor Hills of Letter shows how individuals react to and Scotland, Donizetti’s opera beautifully portrays survive oppression and judgment. The the emotionally fragile Lucia who is caught opera looks at individuals who hold fast to in a feud between her own family and that of their personal beliefs and secrets to protect the Ravenswoods. The tragedy of Lucia di themselves and others; how their mistaken Lammermoor highlights the personal loss that actions result from fears of being judged occurs when a person is forced into a life they and disliked; and how people either make did not choose for themselves. The student peace with their decisions, or live out lives of matinee will be performed by the Opera tortured conflict because of them. Colorado Young Artists with a live orchestra. Cost: $600 for one performance, $700 for Cost: $10/Student, $15/Chaperone two back-to-back performances Availability: May 11, 2017 (10am-12:30pm) Availability: Oct-May Opera Colorado Opera Colorado operacolorado.org/education/ operacolorado.org/education/ 303-778-7350 303-778-7350 [email protected] [email protected] BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: CHILDREN’S MUSICAL THEATER PERFORMANCE Field Trip Grades: Adaptable to grade MUSEUM OF Based on the Academy-Award winning OUTDOOR ARTS animated feature Disney’s Beauty And The Beast, this classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed to his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity. Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones free) Availability: Jan 27, Feb 3, 10am Parker Arts Culture and Events Center (PACE) parkerarts.org/schools 303-805-6800 [email protected]

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EPIC ARTS OPERA COLORADO Resource, On-Campus Activity Grades: Adaptable to grade Participate in this opportunity for Denver K-12 students to explore social issues through contemporary art! Each semester, unique collaborations take place between RedLine Resident Artists/community artists, students, and educators, resulting in the creation of bodies of artwork that are conceptual and student-generated. The project culminates in the EPIC Youth Exhibition. Cost: Free with priority to under-resourced schools Availability: Fall and Spring Semesters RedLine Contemporary Art Center redlineart.org [email protected] 303-296-4448

THE BLUES: A TRUE AMERICAN ART Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Grades: Adaptable to grade Students learn about the development and aesthetic of blues music. They learn how slaves combined African folk music and Western European music traditions to create an entirely new form art form. Students will see how race and gender issues also played roles in the development of blues music. They will hear music by Leadbelly and Muddy Waters. (45 minutes) Cost: $385 + 10¢ per student, financial assistance may be available Availability: Year-round Swallow Hill Music swallowhillmusic.org REDLINE CONTEMPORARY 303-643-5819 ART CENTER [email protected]

IRISH MUSIC & DANCE: THE CULTURAL BLUEGRASS & BEYOND MODERN MUSIC: MAKING BEATS AND CONNECTION Field Trip or On-Campus Activity SONGS Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Adaptable to grade Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Adaptable to grade This assembly examines the ways in which Adaptable to grade Showcasing music, dance and clothing from cultural traditions combine and evolve into In this assembly, students learn the elements the Irish tradition, this program will touch on something new. During the program, students of a hit song, including rhythm, melody, the history of Irish music and dance, and how will be able to experience live performances harmony, and arrangement. They experience it has influenced culture and art of the United of folk and bluegrass instruments including the creative process in this interactive States. (45 minutes) harmonica, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. program. Through the creation of a unique Cost: $385 + 10¢ per student, financial Through musical examples, students will see musical beat, participants are introduced to assistance may be available how the United States melting pot of musical the software and hardware used in hip hop Availability: Year-round cultures combined to create the unique and pop production. Each group’s custom Swallow Hill Music musical form that is bluegrass. (45 minutes) beat will be available for download after the swallowhillmusic.org Cost: $385 + 10¢ per student, financial assembly, as well as resources for making 303-643-5819 assistance may be available beats and musical loops. (45 minutes) [email protected] Availability: Year-round Cost: $350 + 10¢ per student, financial Swallow Hill Music assistance may be available swallowhillmusic.org Availability: Year-round 303-643-5819 Swallow Hill Music [email protected] swallowhillmusic.org 303-643-5819 [email protected]

ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD MOZART & CO. PERFORMANCES CHILDREN’S MUSICAL Assembly Resources, On-Campus Activity THEATER PERFORMANCE Grades: L, U Grades: Adaptable to grade, PD Field Trip Mozart and fellow composers mined the Choose from over 60 professional teaching Grades: L, U riches of great literature and fairy tales artists in all disciplines: theatre, music, Based on the award-winning books by Arnold to create some of the world’s comic dance, creative writing, visual arts, cultural Lobel, A Year with Frog and Toad follows the masterworks. Children are invited to arts, and more! Think 360 Arts will help you adventures of two best friends: the cheerful help bring to life scenes from hilarious custom-design an educational performance, Frog and the grumpy Toad. Join us as we stories originally envisioned by the likes of workshop, or artist residency to meet your journey through four seasons alongside Shakespeare and the Brothers Grimm, and curricular goals. Think 360 artists are trained Frog and Toad as we learn about friendship, to learn about the magic of telling stories in arts integration, blending art and core caring, and what makes each of us special. through song. Resources and related lesson subjects together to engage students and Free online study guide available. plans available online for this program. energize the classroom. Cost: Student & adult chaperone Supports Colorado Academic Standards for Cost: Check website or call for pricing prices range from $4-$9. Teachers are music, reading, and writing. Availability: Year-round complimentary. For an additional $2 per Cost: $450 for one performance; $550 for Think 360 Arts for Learning person add a hands-on, 1-hour workshop two back-to-back think360arts.org and an interactive theater, museum, or Availability: Year-round 720-904-8890 x102 gallery tour. Limited availability. Length of Program: 45 minutes +10 minute [email protected] Theater Performance runs Feb 2-Mar 3 Q&A and Apr 25-May 19, 2017 Central City Opera Arvada Center for the Arts and centralcityopera.org LOWER ELEMENTARY Humanities 303-331-7026 arvadacenter.org/education/arts-day [email protected] JUNIE B. JONES CHILDREN’S MUSICAL 720-898-7245 THEATER PERFORMANCE [email protected] THE GREAT OPERA MIX-UP Field Trip Assembly Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Wowee, wow-wow! Guess what? Everyone’s Singers, with help from students, sort out favorite first grader, June B. Jones is visiting a series of operatic mix-ups to discover the Arvada Center! Come watch Junie B. and that opera is simply storytelling – with plot, all of her friends as they have outrageous characters, conflict, resolution and MUSIC. adventures and learn lots too. Don’t miss This is great preparation for a story writing out on all of the fun! Free online study guide unit or simply as a reinforcement of literacy available. elements for all grades. Resources and Cost: Student & adult chaperone ASK ABOUT related lesson plans available online for prices range from $4-$9. Teachers are FINANCIAL this program. Supports Colorado Academic complimentary. For an additional $2 per ASSISTANCE Standards for music, reading, and writing. person add a hands-on, 1-hour workshop Cost: $450 for one performance; $550 for and an interactive theater, museum or FOR two back-to-back gallery tour. Limited availability. PROGRAMS Availability: Year-round Theater Performance runs Oct 13-Dec 30, ? Length of Program: 45 minutes +10 minute 2016 Q&A Arvada Center for the Arts and Central City Opera Humanities centralcityopera.org arvadacenter.org/education/arts-day 303-331-7026 720-898-7245 [email protected] [email protected]

THINK 360 ARTS FOR LEARNING

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EUREKA STREET CREATIVE MOVEMENT KIDS REACHING AND TEACHING KIDS Assembly On-Campus Activity Workshop Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Grades: L, U With funny and fascinating opera characters Students will learn about a variety of dance Jump-start your students’ musical interests as your tour guides, discover Central City’s concepts, such as, size, balance, rhythm, by engaging them in a Colorado Children’s Eureka Street! You’ll meet prospectors, levels, shapes, and energy. The class will Chorale workshop. Led by Chorale staff lumberjacks, and divas from stories by develop spatial awareness, problem solving, and its young performers, a workshop Rossini, Shakespeare and other favorites. and strengthening the body and brain. includes all aspects of stage performance, Selected students join the cast and, with Cost: $50/class ($80/class for two including singing, dancing, acting and help from the audience, discover all kinds of teachers) stage movement. If paired with a Chorale golden nuggets about great stories, history, Availability: Inquire concert, the participants will have the unique music and rhythm. Supports Colorado Colorado Ballet opportunity to perform on stage with the Academic Standards for music, reading, coloradoballet.com/community Chorale for their school. history and writing. 303-339-1632 Cost: $400 ($200 if paired with a school Cost: $450 for one performance; $550 for [email protected] concert) two back-to-back Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring, Mon-Fri Availability: Year-round KIDS PERFORMING FOR KIDS during school hours Length of Program: 45 minutes + 10 Assembly Colorado Children’s Chorale minutes of Q&A Grades: L, U childrenschorale.org Central City Opera Engage and inspire your students with a 303-854-9067 centralcityopera.org concert designed especially for elementary [email protected] 303-331-7026 audiences. Combine infectious enthusiasm [email protected] and performing energy of the Colorado Children’s Chorale with lots of audience THE GINGERBREAD MAN participation to create an unforgettable Field Trip or On-Campus Outreach experience for your students. Grades: L Cost: $400 for one performance, $600 for This assembly-style performance is two performances back-to-back interactive theater at its best! Your students Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring, Mon-Fri will bring nursery rhymes and fairytales to during school hours life as they act out the adventures of this Colorado Children’s Chorale mischievous little cookie. Best for grades childrenschorale.org Pre-K to 1st. 303-854-9067 ARVADA CENTER FOR Cost: Outreach–$175 per session within [email protected] THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES the seven-county region. Field Trip–$9 per child Availability: Year-round (M-F 9:30am- 3:30pm) Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus mychildsmuseum.org 303-561-0113 [email protected]

CENTRAL CITY OPERA

SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS PETITE MUSIQUE – MUSIC AND IMAGINATION GAMES & SKILLS School Partnerships MOVEMENT WITH ORCHESTRA Field Trip Grades: L, U, M Field Trip Grades: L The Children’s Chorale is currently accepting Grades: L Look closely and imagine stories behind applications for their School Partnership Specially designed program introducing the works of art from various cultures. Students Program. This year-long residency pairs instruments of the orchestra to children ages hone creative thinking skills through a Children’s Chorale conductor with a 0-7 years old in venues throughout the metro collaboration. Activities range from using music teacher on a weekly basis to provide area. 16 piece orchestra and narrator perform a spinner to identify colors in a painting to assistance in the music classroom or with a an interactive program incorporating storytelling a group story. Tour addresses 21st school choir. telling, singing and movement with music. All Century Skills and 2009 CO Academic Cost: Negotiable programs in April 2016. Standards. Availability: Fall, Winter, Spring Cost: $5 for students and adults. For Cost: FREE for students and adult Mon-Thurs during school hours student groups of 20 or more the chaperones; one chaperone for every 7-9 Colorado Children’s Chorale coordinating teacher is free. Financial students. Divide class into groups of 7-9. childrenschorale.org assistance available. Bus transportation funding assistance 303.892.5600, ext. 406 Availability: April 4,18, 25, May 9. Two available for designated Title I schools to [email protected] performances each day at 10am and cover up to 90% of total costs. 11:30am for approx. 45 minutes. Locations Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45am & 11am ONCE UPON A TIME – TBD. starting Sep 6, 2016. STORYTELLING WITH MUSIC Colorado Symphony Field trip reservations must be booked at Assembly coloradosymphony.org least three weeks in advance. To reserve, Grades: L, U Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ A Colorado Symphony small ensemble visits [email protected] denverartmuseum.org. your school with a music and storytelling Denver Art Museum program supporting language arts instruction. creativity.denverartmuseum.org Combine programs to reach all ages! Pre-K-2nd: Aesop’s Fables, Steadfast Tin PRE-K CREATIVE EXPLORERS Soldier, and Audrey & the Amazing Violin. Field Trip 3rd-6th: Tunji & the Giant, Paul Bunyan, Grades: PreK Jack & the Beanstalk. Can also be combined Unleash the creative explorers in your with integrated math and science programs Pre-K classroom! Explore how artists make MathNotes and Music of Life, designed for choices when creating to share their ideas, 3rd-6th. and how art can be made out of anything! Cost: $800 for two back-to-back ✓ Voters will be Students actively engage through a variety performances. Financial assistance is asked to renew the of hands-on, minds-on strategies, including available. SCFD in 2016 to tactile, storytelling, artmaking, and movement Availability: Sep-May experiences. Colorado Symphony continue bringing arts, Cost: FREE for students and adult coloradosymphony.org culture and science chaperones; one chaperone for every 5 Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 students. Divide class into groups of 5. Bus [email protected] to all ages! transportation funding assistance available for designated Title I schools to cover up to 90% of total costs. Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45 & 11am starting Sep 6, 2016. Field trip reservations must be booked at least three weeks in advance. To reserve, call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ denverartmuseum.org. Denver Art Museum COLORADO CHILDREN’S CHORALE creativity.denverartmuseum.org

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JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH ART FITNESS TRAINING TOUR SUPER SCIENTIFIC CIRCUS: Field Trip Field Trip CHILDREN’S THEATER PERFORMANCE Grades: L Grades: L, U Field Trip Phamaly Theatre Company presents a fresh MCA Denver’s Art Fitness tour for K-5 Grades: L, U, M one-hour musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s students focuses on careful looking skills. The Super Scientific Circus starring Mr. Fish treasured novel. Find yourself in an oversized Using two to three artworks which rotate as and Trent the Mime, proves that science peach with James and some human-sized exhibitions change, the Art Fitness Training can be fun and funny. Alternately assisted insects with equally oversized personalities. tour addresses the goals of the 21st century and foiled by the comedic antics of Trent the After it rolls into the ocean, the group faces Skills and Readiness Competencies: critical Mime, Mr. Fish uses amazing circus skills hunger, sharks, and plenty of complications. thinking and reasoning, information literacy, involving boomerangs, bubbles, beachballs, Thanks to James’ quick wit and creative collaboration, self-direction, and invention. bull whips, and magic to introduce the thinking, the residents learn to live and work The tour is designed to support and reinforce principles of friction, inertia, centripetal force, together. Come champion the kind-hearted classroom curriculum and addresses skills and aerodynamics, sonic booms, air pressure, and and relish hope in a world filled with obstacles. competencies students need to be successful ultraviolet light. Cost $7/person in the 21st century workforce. Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones free) Availability: Limited Cost: $3 per student. Chaperones FREE. Availability: Nov 9, 10am and 12pm Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 10am-11 am Availability: Tuesday–Friday year round. Parker Arts Culture and Events Center Thurs, Oct 20, 2016, 10am-11 am (Audio Limited to approximately 60 students per (PACE) Description and ASL services provided.) tour. parkerarts.org/schools Lakewood Cultural Center MCA Denver (Museum of 303-805-6800 lakewood.org Contemporary Art Denver) [email protected] 303-987-7893 mcadenver.org [email protected] 720-236-1820 BERENSTAIN BEARS LIVE!: [email protected] CHILDREN’S MUSICAL THEATER THE JUNGLE BOOK: DENVER PERFORMANCE CHILDREN’S THEATRE ROCK THE PRESIDENTS: Field Trip Field Trip CHILDREN’S MUSICAL THEATER Grades: L, U, Grades: L, U, M PERFORMANCE Adapted from the classic children’s book Mowgli is rambunctious and curious, scrappy Field Trip series by Stan and Jan Berenstain, The and silly. Sound like a kid you know? This new Grades: L, U, M Berenstain Bears LIVE! brings everyone’s adaptation of the beloved Rudyard Kipling Gearing up for the election season, this high- favorite bear family to life in a thrilling story finds a child lost in the Indian jungle, energy multi-media extravaganza takes a non- theatrical experience. As always, Bear Country where he is adopted by Baloo the bear, partisan look at what it means to be president. is not without its complications: Brother Bear’s Bagheera the panther, and all the beasts who Rock the Presidents is a high octane, grades are slipping, Sister Bear still has a few call the mysterious wilderness home. This multi-media-filled, musical revue spanning things to learn about making new friends, and fast-paced retelling keeps you perched on the 223 years of the American presidency – from Papa Bear just can’t stop eating junk food. edge of your seat as young Mowgli comes George Washington to Barack Obama. The 44 Thankfully, we can always depend on Mama face-to-face with sneaky monkeys, noisy men who rose to the highest office in the land Bear and her loving patience to help set vultures and his mortal enemy: the tiger, Shere are brought to life through rock, pop and folk things right. The Berenstain Bears LIVE! will Khan. Resource guide provided. ENCORE! music. give boys and girls of all ages the chance to Program can be booked to extend learning Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones free) fall in love with these characters, just as their after the show. Availability: Oct 28, 10 am and 12pm parents did when they were growing up. Cost: Student and Parents $8 per ticket. Parker Arts Culture and Events Center Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones free) Teachers are complimentary. Book an (PACE) Availability: Feb 23, 10am and 12pm ENCORE! Workshop for an additional parkerarts.org/schools Parker Arts Culture and Events Center $2 per student which includes an actor 303-805-6800 (PACE) talkback, backstage tour, and acting [email protected] parkerarts.org/schools workshop. 303-805-6800 Availability: March-May (call for dates), [email protected] performances at 10am MACC at the Robert E. Loup JCC PARKER ARTS maccjcc.org CULTURE AND 303-316-6302 EVENTS CENTER [email protected]

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MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS: UPPER ELEMENTARY CHOICES ARTISTS MAKE CHILDREN’S MUSICAL THEATER Field Trip PERFORMANCE ART, DANCE, MUSIC WORKSHOPS Grades: U, M, H Field Trip Artists make big and small choices to create On-Campus Activity Grades: L, U, M and communicate. This immersive and Grades: U, M, H This charming tale produced by Parker Arts activity-based program invites students to Art programs include watercolor, pastels, and Inspire Creative touches the heart – think critically about art by: building their oils, acrylics, print-making, drawing, pottery, with lots of laughs along the way! It is hard background knowledge through artmaking; and mixed media. Dance workshops include enough for Mr. Popper, a simple painter, to exercising observation skills in a “write jazz, contemporary, poms, ballet, tap, support himself and his family. The addition to learn” exercise and sharing insights creative dance, hip hop and master classes. of twelve penguins makes it impossible to in a group discussion. Students work in Music programs include guitar, keyboard, make both ends meet – until Mr. Popper has small groups of 5-7 in this art and literacy singing, improvisation, music basics, and a splendid idea. He will turn the talented integrated lesson grounded in the workshop music history. Guitars and keyboards are penguins into a traveling vaudeville act! And model. not provided. Programs address Colorado that’s exactly what he does. The entire family Cost: Free to all schools; bus funds may curriculum standards. will delight in the adventures of Mr. Popper be available. Cost: Varies, Call for details. and his “performing” feathered friends. Availability: Approx. 90 minutes Tues-Fri Availability: Year-round Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones morning. 3 weeks advance scheduling Aurora Cultural Services Division free) requested. 30 student capacity unless auroragov.org/arts Availability: April 5-7, 10am and 12pm special request. 303-739-6520 Parker Arts Culture and Events Clyfford Still Museum [email protected] Center (PACE) clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill parkerarts.org/schools 720-354-4877 DISCOVERY CONCERT FOR KIDS 303-805-6800 [email protected] [email protected] On-Campus Activity and Field Trip Grades: U, M SING ALONG, MOVE ALONG Interactive classroom visits with chamber musicians and a field trip to beautiful Macky Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Auditorium on the CU-Boulder campus. Grades: L Students experience the magic of the full Our early childhood teachers lead students orchestra in a 50-minute program led by in an interactive musical class featuring Music Director Michael Butterman. This dance, creative movement, song, percussion year’s cross-disciplinary program explores instruments and more! Programs can be the science of sound, with standards-aligned adapted to fit educational and seasonal curriculum guides available to teachers. themes. Swallow Hill will provide instruments. Cost: $5 per student, one chaperone per (30-45 minutes) 10 students is free Cost: $100 + 10¢ per student, financial CLYFFORD STILL Availability: In-school classroom visits Nov- assistance may be available MUSEUM Dec or Feb-Mar; Concerts on Jan 12-13, Availability: Year-round 2017 Swallow Hill Music Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra swallowhillmusic.org boulderphil.org 303-643-5819 303-443-9203 [email protected] [email protected]

HOW THE WEST WAS SUNG Assembly Grades: U, M No Wii? No iPod? No reality TV? Find out what the pioneers and miners of the frontier West did for fun in this 45 minute performance. The adventurous lives of Colorado historical figures Margaret “Molly” Brown, Horace and Baby Doe Tabor and Clara Brown make great opera stories! Tell us you “found Supports Colorado Academic Standards for music, reading, writing and history. Cost: $450 for one performance; $550 for the program two back-to-back Availability: Year-round in the Directory!” Length of Program: 45 minutes. +10 minute Q&A Central City Opera centralcityopera.org 303-331-7026 [email protected]

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TRANSITION TO ABSTRACTION BUILD AN EXHIBIT AT THE COLORADO MUSICURIOUS: COLORADO SYMPHONY Field Trip RAILROAD MUSEUM) YOUTH CONCERTS – SYMPHONIC Grades: U, M, H On-Campus Activity STORYTELLING Clyfford Still made distinct choices as his art Grades: U, M, (grades 4-8) Field Trip evolved from representational to abstract. Students are invited to work with the Grades: U, M This immersive and activity-based program curator to design a themed case exhibit in Explore how composers make use of the invites students to think critically about art the museum’s upper gallery focusing on sounds of the symphony orchestra to help by: comparing and contrasting a range of Colorado trains and one of the museum’s them set the scene, define characters, and Clyfford Still’s art; working collaboratively four interpretive themes: immigration, social show action in music based on literature. to create an abstracted interpretation of an customs, economy and technology. After Among others, students will hear music by archival photograph; and forming their own installing the exhibit, students enjoy an “On Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel, and Prokofiev interpretations of the artist’s work. Students Your Own” tour of the museum. based on the stories of 1,001 (Arabian) work in small groups of 5-7 in this art, Cost: $4 per child, one supervisor for Nights, Mother Goose, and Romeo & Juliet. literacy and social studies integrated lesson every five children (under 12). Supervisors Cost: $5 per student/adult. For student grounded in the workshop model. receive free Museum admission. groups of 20 or more the coordinating Cost: Free to all schools; bus funds may Availability: By reservation with the teacher is free. Financial assistance is be available. exhibit’s curator available. Availability: Approx. 90 minutes Tues-Fri Colorado Railroad Museum Availability: Nov 1, 8, 15; Jan 11, 12, 24, 25 morning. 3 weeks advance scheduling ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org Two performances to choose from each requested. 30 student capacity unless 303-279-4581/800-365-6263 contact day: 9:50am and 11:15am for approx. 50 special request. [email protected] minutes Clyfford Still Museum Colorado Symphony clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill EATING ON THE RAILS coloradosymphony.org 720-354-4877 On-Campus Activity Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 [email protected] Grades: U, M, H (grades 4-12) [email protected] Food and eating have been an essential WORKS ON PAPER part of the train experience since trains first MUSICURIOUS: Field Trip started transporting people in the 1830s. DRUMS OF THE WORLD Grades: U, M, H Explore the impact of Butcher Boys, Pullman Field Trip Clyfford Still: The Works on Paper is a once- cars, Fred Harvey and Dining cars on Grades: U, M in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the role American culture here in Colorado. After Take a trip around the world with the drawing played in Still’s life-long creative visiting the exhibit, experience the train yard Colorado Symphony’s world-class process. Students will explore Still’s variety on your own. percussionists creating exciting rhythms in materials—from graphite on paper to oil Cost: $4 per child, one supervisor for with drums and other surprising percussion on poster board—through hands-on activities every five children (under 12). Supervisors instruments. and collaborative discussion. Students work receive free Museum admission. Cost: $5 per student/adult. For student in small groups of 5-7 in this arts integrated Availability: By reservation groups of 20 or more the coordinating lesson grounded in the workshop model. Colorado Railroad Museum teacher is free. Financial assistance is Cost: Free to all schools; bus funds may ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org available. be available. 303-279-4581/800-365-6263 Availability: Nov 29 Availability: Approx. 90 minutes Tues-Fri [email protected] Two performances to choose from: 9:50am morning. 3 weeks advance scheduling and 11:15am for approx. 50 minutes requested. 30 student capacity unless Colorado Symphony special request. coloradosymphony.org Clyfford Still Museum Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill [email protected] 720-354-4877 [email protected]

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SHOW AND TELL BAND COLORADO SYMPHONY On-Campus Activity Grades: U The Show and Tell Band is a special community and educational outreach program of the Denver Concert Band. The musicians demonstrate their instruments and play familiar music to teach children about band instruments. Cost: Contact Carol Dreiling at DCB Availability: Contact Carol Dreiling at DCB The Denver Concert Band denverconcertband.org 303.798.4719 [email protected]

GOOD VIBRATIONS: COMMUNICATING THROUGH MUSIC On-Campus Activity Grades: U, M Featuring Colorado Symphony violist DENVER CONCERT BAND Catherine Beeson and musicians from the Colorado Symphony, “Good Vibrations” is all about exploration. This 55-minute interactive program will help students explore sounds as a communication tool, styles of music at different times in history, and the way composers tell stories through music. (See website for additional programs.) Cost: FREE to DPS schools (one assembly per school year) Availability: Inquire for availability Friends of Chamber Music friendsofchambermusic.com 303-388-9839 [email protected] MIDDLE SCHOOL

EN MIS PALABRAS (IN MY OWN WORDS) DENVER ART MUSEUM PERCEPTION GAMES & SKILLS BILINGUAL OPERA EXHIBITION TOURS: 2016-17 Field Trip Assembly Field Trip Grades: U Grades: M, H Grades: U, M, H Students will actively engage in selecting, An original one-act bilingual opera, En Mis Glory of Venice: Masterworks of the focusing, examining, absorbing and Palabras addresses adolescent development Renaissance— Oct 2, 2016-Feb 12, 2017. comprehending information while exploring — finding your own voice and learning Starwars™ and The Power of Costume— the museum. This collaborative tour fosters who you are amid parental expectations Nov 13, 2016-Apr 2, 2017. Mi Tierra: active investigative thinking, risk-taking and and peer influences. Fifteen-year-old Ana Contemporary Artists Explore Place — Feb implementing multiple perspectives. Tour Maria feels stifled by her strict father; he is 19-Oct 22, 2017. Check website for additional addresses 21st Century Skills and 2009 CO bewildered by her wish to be herself. It takes information. Tours address 21st Century Academic Standards. a family crisis to bring them to a beginning of Skills and 2009 CO Academic Standards. Cost: FREE for students and adult understanding. A bilingual guide/lesson plans Cost: Varies depending on exhibition; one chaperones; one chaperone for every 10 (language arts & social science) explore chaperone for every 10 students. Divide students. Divide class into groups of 10. cultural/family traditions, immigration and class into groups of 10. Transportation Bus transportation funding assistance Latino history in Colorado. Supports Colorado funding assistance available for designated available for designated Title I schools to Academic Standards for music, reading, Title I schools. cover up to 90% of total costs. writing, foreign language, geography, civics, Availability: Tues-Fri starting at 9:45am. Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45am & 11am history and theater. Dates and times vary. starting Sep 6, 2016. Cost: $650 for one performance Field trip reservations must be booked at Field trip reservations must be booked at Availability: Year-round least three weeks in advance. To reserve, least three weeks in advance. To reserve, Length of Program: 50 minutes plus 10 call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ minute Q&A denverartmuseum.org. denverartmuseum.org. Central City Opera Denver Art Museum Denver Art Museum centralcityopera.org creativity.denverartmuseum.org creativity.denverartmuseum.org 303-331-7026 [email protected]

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JANUS STUDENT ART BUYING DENVER ART MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS CAREER EXPLORATION DAYS PROGRAM Field Trip Field Trip Field Trip Grades: M, H Grades: M, H Grades: M, Adaptable to grade Explore Denver Art Museum’s various High school and middle school students who An opportunity for students and their teacher collections (modern, contemporary, Oceanic, are active in theatre are invited to tour the to attend the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Western American, European, American, DCPA’s professional theatre facilities and July to purchase artwork for the Mobile Art Asian, Pre-Columbian, American Indian sit-in on a technical rehearsal. This program Gallery and for their own school. Applications and Spanish Colonial art). Tour addresses is designed to invite students see the DCPA available in Nov Contact visualarts@ 21st Century Skills and 2009 CO Academic Theatre Company’s production process. cherryarts.org to join our mailing list. Standards. Cost: Free, limited to 30 students Cost: FREE Cost: FREE for students and adult Availability: Sep 2, Sep 23, Nov 18, Jan 6, Availability: July chaperones; one chaperone for every 10 Jan 20, Jan 27, March 24, April 14 CherryArts students. Divide class into groups of 10. Denver Center for the cherryarts.org Bus transportation funding assistance Performing Arts 303-355-2787 available for designated Title I schools to denvercenter.org [email protected] cover up to 90% of total costs. 303-893-6006 Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45am & 11am [email protected] MUSICURIOUS: COLORADO SYMPHONY starting Sep 6, 2016. OPEN REHEARSALS Field trip reservations must be booked at INTEGRATED CURRICULUM: Field Trip least three weeks in advance. To reserve, FILMS AT THE SIE FILM CENTER Grades: M, H call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ Field Trip Experience the Symphony’s musicians and denverartmuseum.org. Grades: M, H – Adaptable to grade guest conductors as they rehearse and Denver Art Museum The Sie FilmCenter is the home of the prepare some of the season’s most engaging creativity.denverartmuseum.org Denver Film Society and Denver’s only year- concerts. Please visit coloradosymphony. round cinematheque, presenting a weekly- org for details about each of the programs STUDENT MATINEES changing calendar of first-run exclusives and selected for Open Rehearsal visits. Field Trip arthouse revivals. Whether it is a production Cost: $5 per student/adult. For student Grades: M, H from the National Theatre in London, or an groups of 20 or more the coordinating Live theater productions, post-show adaptation of a novel, our programming offers teacher is free. Financial assistance is discussion with the cast and a professionally- a unique way of integrating the arts into your available. prepared study guide. Student matinees start curriculum while promoting critical thinking Availability: 9/14 Strauss Also Sprach at 10:30am. Grade level varies depending on and literacy. Our programs are flexible and Zarathustra, 9/29 Bernstein’s Musicals, content. Call or visit our website for titles and our staff is here to provide the perfect fit for 10/13 Beethoven and Janacek, 10/19 details. your classroom outing. Puccini La Boheme,11/3 Barber and Cost: $16 per student, with one free Cost: Call for information Elgar, 11/17 Bartok Concerto for chaperone ticket for every 15 paid student Availability: See website for new listing Orchestra, 12/1 Beethoven Symphony tickets. Denver Film Society No. 7, 1/19 Brahms and Schubert, 2/2 Availability: The Glass Menagerie: Sep 28, denverfilm.org Shostakovich “Leningrad” Symphony Oct 5, Oct 13; Frankenstein: Oct 13, Oct 303-595-3456 ext 235 No. 7, 2/16 Stravinsky Petrouchka, 20, Oct 26; A Christmas Carol: Nov 30, [email protected] 3/2 Brahms Symphony No. 3, 3/16 Dec 7, Dec 8 , Dec 13, Dec 15; The Book Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, 4/6 Rimsky- of Will: Feb 2, Feb 8; The Christians: Feb CONNECT FILM TO YOUR CLASSROOM Korsakov Scheherazade, 4/20 Gruber 9; The Secret Garden: May 3, May 11, Field Trip Frankenstein!!, 5/3 Bach St. Matthew May 17 Grades: M, U, H – Adaptable to grade Passion, 5/16 Mahler Symphony No. 3 Denver Center for the The Sie FilmCenter specializes in creating Colorado Symphony Performing Arts an interactive experience around film, so coloradosymphony.org denvercenter.org/student-matinees whether it is bringing a literary adaptation to Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 303-446.4829 life on the big screen, or transporting your [email protected] [email protected] students to a different time or place through a film, our flexible programming options can be tailored to your curriculum and needs. Cost: Call for information Availability: Call for information Denver Film Society denverfilm.org 303-595-3456 ext 235 [email protected] ✓ Voters will be asked to renew the SCFD in 2016 to continue bringing arts, culture and FRIENDS OF science to all ages! CHAMBER MUSIC

ART FITNESS HIGHLIGHTS STUDENT DRESS REHEARSALS HIGH SCHOOL Field Trip Field Trip Grades: M, H Grades: M, H ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER MCA Denver’s Art Fitness Highlights tour The 2016-17 season includes a rarely TEEN COMMITTEE takes students through the museum’s performed opera and an opera from timeless Resource always-changing exhibitions, focusing on repertoire! Get the first glimpse of Opera Grade: H two to three contemporary art works. The Colorado’s mainstage operas with a special Teen Committee is dedicated to a select tour is designed to support and reinforce dress rehearsal performance. Online teacher group of high school-aged teens interested classroom curriculum, addressing skills and guidebooks prepare your class for their in the visual arts and working in a team. It competencies students need to be successful night at the opera. Enhance your experience provides a comfortable arena for youths to in the 21st century workforce. by contacting the education department to voice their opinions, develop leadership skills, Cost: $3 per student. Chaperones FREE. arrange a pre-performance discussion or and connect with staff, faculty, and Board of Availability: Tuesday–Friday year round. post-performance talk-back. A wonderful way Director members at ASLD. Meets regularly Limited to approximately 60 students per to introduce middle and high school students throughout the year. tour. to opera. Cost: FREE MCA Denver (Museum of Cost: $12/Student, $15/Chaperone Availability: Year-round Contemporary Art Denver) Availability: Nov 3, 2016, 7pm, Puccini’s Art Students League of Denver (ASLD) mcadenver.org La Fanciulla del West; May 4, 2017, 7pm, ASLD.org 720-236-1820 Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor Rachel Basye, Executive Director at [email protected] Opera Colorado 303-778-6990 x1105, [email protected] operacolorado.org/education/ 303-778-7350 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER [email protected] TEEN COUNCIL ARIAS & ENSEMBLES Resource Grade: H On-Campus Activity Teen Advisory Council is dedicated to a select Grades: M, H, PD group of high school-aged teens interested Performed by the Opera Colorado Young in the visual arts and working in a team. It Artists, this delightful program features provides a comfortable arena for youths to highlights from opera and musical theater. voice their opinions, develop leadership skills, Selections are performed without the use of and connect with staff, faculty, and Board of sets and costumes, creating an intimate and Director members at ASLD. Meets monthly engaging experience – including background (with snacks). Contact: Rachel Basye, information on each piece. There will be a Executive Director Q&A session which will give the audience Cost: FREE unique insight into the world of opera and Availability: Year-round Opera Colorado. Art Students League of Denver (ASLD) Cost: $350 asld.org Availability: Oct-May, Tues-Sat 303-778-6990 ext. 1105 Opera Colorado [email protected] operacolorado.org/education/ 303-778-7350 [email protected]

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PERFORMANCE PREVIEWS YOUNG FILMMAKERS WORKSHOP MCA DENVER’S TEEN PROGRAM: Field Trip Workshop FAILURE LAB Grades: H, PD Grades: H, M – Adaptable to grade High School Internship Program Teachers and students attend final dress Go behind the scenes and into the world of Grades: H rehearsal of professional production at the filmmaking! Students ages 12 – 17 will learn Failure Lab, the Museum of Contemporary Aurora Fox Arts Center and provide feedback the essentials of filmmaking from master Art Denver’s Teen Program, is a school-year to the producers. Talk backs with artists and filmmakers. They will write, direct, shoot, long internship program for a select group of backstage tours available upon request. and star in their own films which will show high school students. Always encouraged to Cost: Preview: pay what you can. Cost throughout the year during special screenings take chances, interns engage with museum varies during the run, student & group at the Sie FilmCenter. professionals, work with artists, and organize rates available. Cost: Call for information exhibitions, programs, and events for their Availability: Sep-May Availability: Call for dates peers. Applications for the 2017-18 school Aurora Fox Arts Center Denver Film Society year are accepted from February–May 2017. aurorafoxartscenter.org denverfilm.org Twelve students are admitted each year to 303-739-1970 303-595-3456 ext 235 the Failure Lab. [email protected] [email protected] Cost: Free Availability: Sep-May, Weds 4-6pm SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKING LOT HANDMADE SONGS SERIES, ORIGINAL MCA Denver (Museum of On-Campus Activity SONGWRITING PROGRAM Contemporary Art Denver) Grades: H Field Trip: eTown Hall and studios mcadenver.org This program presents a 60 minute Grades: H 720-236-1820 ensemble-based cutting of William eTown’s Handmade Songs program gives [email protected] Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet outdoors high school songwriters the opportunity in high school parking lots with the cast to write, perform, and record their original ART GOES EVERYWHERE then moving into classrooms to facilitate music. Twenty performers are selected for a On-Campus Activity/Assembly workshops to start conversations that closely live show, and finalists work with professional Grades: H examine how the play’s themes resonate musicians and production staff at eTown’s This program brings exhibiting artists from within both contemporary issues and the high state-of- the-art recording studio to record MCA Denver’s renowned exhibition program school experience. their own song and video. This annual to high school auditoriums and classrooms to Cost: Based on number of performances program incorporates educational workshops speak about their work and practice. These and workshops on songwriting and performance technique workshops highlight the role of creativity Availability: Upon request for students. See our website in Fall 2016 for as a key 21st Century skill. Following the Denver Center for the details. Space is limited. talk, there will be a Q&A session, allowing Performing Arts Cost: Pending funding; Call for information students to gain insight into the world of 303.893.6074 Availability: Call for dates, Spring 2017. contemporary art. [email protected] eTown Cost: Covered by grant funding 303-443- 8696 ext 100 Availability: Call for more information etown.org MCA Denver (Museum of [email protected] Contemporary Art Denver) mcadenver.org DENVER 720-236-1820 FILM [email protected] SOCIETY .

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MCA DENVER’S AMBASSADORS PROFESSIONAL MUSIC! WORDS! OPERA! WORKSHOP High School Internship Program FOR EDUCATORS AT CU-BOULDER Grades: H DEVELOPMENT Resource MCA Denver Ambassadors work with artists Grades: PD and museum staff to create programs and ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER Educators who attend this 5-day summer events for high school students. It provides MOXIE workshop will take away a great array of opportunities for youth to develop leadership practical teaching methods. Master teaching Resource skills, build creativity, and connect with other artists from the service organization Opera Grade: PD students. America guide participants in the creation of ASLD has Moxie! From quick pop-up art Cost: Free original musical stories utilizing the Music! instruction at local fairs and festivals, to Availability: Sep-May Words! Opera! curriculum. The workshop fee professional development for artists lectures MCA Denver (Museum of includes resource guides. Three graduate at venues around town, to venturing Into the Contemporary Art Denver) credits are available at a very reasonable Wild, where artists’ open their studio to talk mcadenver.org cost. about their inspirational space, Moxie offers 720-236-1820 Cost: $99, plus $210 for 3 CU Graduate emerging artists exposure to the working [email protected] credits (optional - 2016 rates. $99 fee artist world. Learn firsthand how this unique waived for previous participants who bring species feeds and forages and get the skills FREE RANGE FRIDAYS a new team member to the workshop.) you need to be a successful working artist. Availability: July 2017; check website for Drop-In Cost: Dependent on the class details Grades: H Availability: Year-round Central City Opera High School Educators-encourage your Art Students League of Denver (ASLD) centralcityopera.org students to experience Free Range Fridays. ASLD.org 303-331-7026 Friday nights, after the staff of the museum Registration at 303-778-6990 x0, for [email protected] has left for the week, high school students, questions or to register with the help of professional artists, take over the Teen Lounge on the top floor of the ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF DENVER THEATRE ARTS INTEGRATION FOR museum. Each week features new mediums DEMO & DIALOGUE to try out, new artists to hangout with, and TEACHERS Resource new stuff to do. Design beats with a DJ, try Resource Grade: PD out a 3D printer, paint murals on the furniture, Grades: PD Throughout the year, our talented faculty offer or just hang out and play video games. No Professional teaching artists offer customized demonstrations in their medium at ASLD or prior reservations required. (Almost) Always professional development opportunities to at the venues of our Demo Series partner, Fridays. Always Free. teachers, schools and districts statewide. Meininger Art Supply. Take advantage of this Cost: Free Using effective theatre-based techniques, great opportunity to observe artists in action Availability: Sep-June, Fri 5-7pm educators learn innovative ways to enhance and participate in a lively dialogue about their MCA Denver (Museum of their curriculum using an arts-integrated techniques and inspiration. Contemporary Art Denver) approach in the classroom. Cost: FREE mcadenver.org Cost: $100 per hour depending on location Availability: Year-round 720-236-1820 and the number of participants Art Students League of Denver (ASLD) [email protected] Availability: Upon request ASLD.org Denver Center for the Registration at 303-778-6990 x0, for Performing Arts questions denvercenter.org 303-446-4850 [email protected]

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ADAPTABLE TO GRADE NIGHT NINJAS: OWLS CUSTOM ENVIRONMENTAL & On-Campus Activity or Field Trip CAREER PROGRAMS BEAVER HABITAT INVESTIGATION Grades: Adaptable to grade Field Trips or On-Campus Activity How are ninjas and owls similar? What Grades: Adaptable to grade Field Trip superpowers do owls have that allow them Bird Conservancy of the Rockies offers Grades: Adaptable to grade to hunt so efficiently at night? Students make custom experiential learning opportunities Beavers are not only part of the ecosystem predictions and examine the study skins of through field trips and on-site programs at our nature center but they are also Great Horned Owls and dissect owl pellets designed to meet the needs of any group. habitat creators! Learn about their life cycle to discover the answers and more. For an Hands-on activities, 21st century skill- and the adaptations that help them live in additional fee: Bring a live Great Horned building, career discussions, team building both aquatic and terrestrial environments. Owl into your classroom for a close-up and outdoor exploration create an engaging At the Audubon Nature Center examine experiential lesson about owls! Call/email for learning environment for every participant. their fur, skull, and home up close. Use specific live owl details. Have an environmentally themed Project or scientific equipment to collect data about the Cost: $6/student + $3 per pellet (Trip fees Problem Based Learning program in mind? conditions beaver habitats create and the may apply, call for details). We would be excited to incorporate real-world ways in which their lives interconnect with Availability: Year-round issues with your curriculum. and affect the South Platte Basin ecosystem. Audubon Society of Greater Denver Cost: $1-$7/participant (dependent Chaperones are required denveraudubon.org/programs/school- on the location and type of activities). Cost: $10 per student programs/ Please contact us for more information. Availability: Offered fall, winter, and early 303-973-9530 Scholarships are available for spring only [email protected] transportation and program fees. Audubon Society of Greater Denver Availability: Year-round denveraudubon.org/programs/school- Bird Conservancy of the Rockies programs/ birdconservancy.org 303-973-9530 303-659-4348 ext. 11 [email protected] emily.snode-brenneman@ birdconservancy.org

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BIRDS, BIOLOGY, AND OUTDOOR EXPLORATION Field Trip Grades: Adaptable to grade Students “spring” into action by becoming Bird Conservancy biologists for a day to research birds and life in a prairie ecosystem. Choose from a variety of program options, which include exploring water, shortgrass prairie, and the relationship of a bird’s structure to its function. Looking to add a teambuilding component to your program? BIRD CONSERVANCY OF Contact us for more information. Programs THE ROCKIES are 2-4 hours in length. Cost: $5/participant + $7/vehicle state park pass. Follow up in-class program is only $1/participant with this field trip. Ask about scholarships. BARR LAKE BIRD WATCH BARR LAKE BANDING STATION Availability: April-May Field Trips Field Trip Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade birdconservancy.org Discover the beauty of biodiversity at Barr Spend a morning with a bird bander at Barr 303-659-4348 ext. 11 Lake State Park! In this themed hike, Lake State Park where thousands of birds emily.snode-brenneman@ students will explore how different bird stop during migration. For over 25 years, birdconservancy.org species coexist by using various parts of the Bird Conservancy has been providing an ecosystem. Students will use binoculars students with “up-close and personal” 1/2 DAY BIRD FESTIVAL and field guides, gain observation skills experiences in nature. Students will have the AT YOUR SCHOOL and engage in interactive activities about amazing opportunity to observe a biologist On-Campus Activity bird adaptations, habitat, and Bald Eagle place a band on migrating birds captured Grades: Adaptable to grade conservation. A 3-mile hike to view nesting harmlessly in nets. Students will discuss data Upper elementary, middle, and high school Bald Eagles is available for middle school collection, bird adaptations, the challenge of students mentor lower elementary students students and high school students. migration, and the importance of a healthy as they guide them through various bird Cost: $5/participant + $7 state park fee per habitat. conservation activities. Older students will bus/vehicle. Follow up in-class program is Cost: $5/participant + $7/vehicle state park be trained on festival activities and then lead only $1/participant with this field trip. Ask fee. Follow up in-class program is only $1/ the half-day festival for the lower elementary about scholarships. participant with this field trip. Ask about students. Each festival is designed to meet Availability: Late March-May scholarships. the needs of your school’s curriculum. Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Availability: Sep-mid Oct Cost: $1/person over 200 people; $1.50/ birdconservancy.org Bird Conservancy of the Rockies person 150-199 participants; $2/person 303-659-4348 ext. 11 birdconservancy.org 100-149 participants; $3/person if less than emily.snode-brenneman@ 303-659-4348 ext. 11 100. Ask about scholarships. birdconservancy.org emily.snode-brenneman@ Availability: Oct-April birdconservancy.org Bird Conservancy of the Rockies birdconservancy.org 303-659-4348 ext. 10 [email protected]

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BUTTERFLIES AND MORE! NAVIGATION: MAP, COMPASS, AND GPS BOULDERING BUS Field Trip or On-campus Activity Field Trip or On-Campus Activity On-Campus Activity Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Investigate the world of invertebrates from Use math skills and learn to read a The YEP Bouldering Bus is a mobile butterflies to sea stars! On a field trip, explore topographic map, measure paces, use a classroom. Our converted school bus indoor and outdoor exhibits to stroll through compass and/or a GPS (Global Positioning outfitted as a bouldering cave provides a raniforest with more than 1,000 butterflies; System) then put it all to use in a navigation unique opportunities for students. YEP can hold Rosie the tarantula, touch a sea star course. Class activities can vary from simple combine the physical challenges of climbing and more! Deepen the learning experience compass skills to geocaching to advanced with team building activities and hands-on with an optional facilitated class featuring mountain navigation. science curriculum. Pair climbing with slack live animals and engaging, inquiry-driven Cost: Call or check website lining, team building or science of climbing. investigations. Availability: Fall, Spring, Summer Cost: call or check website No bus? No problem! Invite Butterfly Pavilion Location: American Mountaineering Availability: Fall, Spring, Summer to bring memorable learning experiences to Center (AMC), school classrooms, or other Location: at your school your classroom with live animals and hands- outreach locations Colorado Mountain Club on activities. Check our website and choose Colorado Mountain Club cmc.org/yep from NEW program titles or old favorites with cmc.org/yep 303-996-2751 some updates! 303-996-2751 [email protected] Cost: Varies, call for costs [email protected] Availability: See website SCIENCE LABS Butterfly Pavilion SLACKLINING: BALANCE AND Field Trip Request a reservation online at MOVEMENT Grades: Adaptable to grade butterflies.org/learn Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Science Labs provide an up-close look at [email protected] Grades: Adaptable to grade a topic through experiments and activities Combine individual challenge and group that help to build students’ understanding. BUTTERFLY PAVILION VIRTUAL dynamics of walking a tightened rope, along Labs take place inside, but teachers are CLASSES with other activities, that test and improve provided with an optional self-guided Distance Learning physical balance and coordination with outdoor exploration to reinforce the topic Grades: Adaptable U, M spotting by teammates to create a safe independently. All labs are offered for grades Connect your students with authentic science physical challenge. K-12; specific activities change to meet through interactive video conference! Student Cost: call or check website the unique needs of your learners. Choose scientists will unravel the mysteries of Availability: Fall, Spring, Summer from Pollinator Partners, Plants 101, Soil monarch migration, investigate how various Location: American Mountaineering Center Study, Genetics, Fabulous Fungi, Seed Lab bees provide most of our food, find out or school classroom or design a Custom Lab that meets your why pollinators are in peril with dwindling Colorado Mountain Club curricular needs. populations, and generate ideas on how cmc.org/yep Cost: $5 per student, scholarships people can help! Choose from: Monarch 303-996-2751 available Mysteries, Besieged Bees [email protected] Availability: Sep-May Cost: $100/session includes software for Denver Botanic Gardens seamless interactive video conference. botanicgardens.org Scholarships may be available for eligible 720-865-3580 schools. [email protected] Availability: All year Butterfly Pavilion CULTIVATION CRUISER Request a reservation online at On-Campus Activity butterflies.org/learn Grades: Adaptable to grade [email protected] Cultivation Cruiser Outreach brings the Gardens to your classroom with plants, fun and unique activities, and planting projects. Our programs will engage your students’ natural curiosity to excite them about the world of plants -- all within the confines of your classroom. Choose from Sensory Adventures (PreK-1), Flower Power (2-12), Ecological Explorations (2-4) or a Planting Project (PreK-12) Cost: $75 per program +$15 mileage fee Availability: Sep-May. Scholarships available. Denver Botanic Gardens botanicgardens.org 720-865-3580 [email protected]

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FARM TOUR MUSEUM ADMISSION CLASSES: DENVER ZOO Field Trip Build Your Own Field Trip Field Trip or On Your Campus Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Explore Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Pump up your visit to the Museum through Denver Zoo offers classroom opportunities Farms with a site tour. Visit the Deer hands-on demonstrations and engaging for K-8th grade students to learn about a Creek School House and farm animals, experiences. Students will explore our particular life science concept through live see where food is grown and take a tour many permanent and temporary exhibitions, animal interactions, biofact (animal specimen) through the historical Hildebrand Ranch participate in live performances, touch exploration, and hands-on activities. Up to 30 house and summer kitchen. After the guided authentic artifacts and specimens, conduct participants. tour, students can complete a self-guided experiments, and much more! Add an At Denver Zoo: scavenger hunt and bird walk. IMAX or Planetarium show for a small fee Cost: $7/student (Sep-Feb) $8/student Cost: $5 per student, scholarships (scholarships available). (March-May) available Cost: Free through Dec 31 Smaller groups will be charged for a Availability: Sep, Nov, March, April and Availability: On-request minimum of 15 students May Denver Museum of Nature & Science Availability: Mon-Fri, Sep-May 10am., Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield dmns.org/teachers 11am, noon (max of three classes per day) Farms At your location: botanicgardens.org ZOO ED-VENTURE TREK Cost: $180/first class, $100 each additional 720-865-3580 Field Trip consecutive class. [email protected] Grades: Adaptable to grade Availability: Dates and times vary, offered Take the learning from the classroom to the Year-round DRAMATIC LEARNING™: field, as zoo educators lead your students Denver Zoo SCIENCE, MATH, AND NATURE on an educational journey through Toyota denverzoo.org/education On-Campus Activity or Field Trip Elephant Passage on a Zoo Ed-Venture Trek! Grades: Adaptable to grade These immersive programs are aligned with Dramatic Learning™ is a tailored in-school Denver Zoo’s Toyota Elephant Passage Field program, which uses theatre exercises Trip Discovery Units and Colorado Academic to teach any curriculum (history, poetry, Standards. They take place entirely in Toyota science, math, etc.). Workshops are led by Elephant Passage, with opportunities for experienced teaching artists who address observation, inquiry and discovery. Up to 30 multiple learning styles and require full participants. participation from students and teachers. Cost: $7/student (Sep-Feb) $8/student Past workshops include: Landforms, Body (March-May); Smaller groups will be Systems, Periodic Table of Elements, Plants, charged for a minimum of 15 students. Insects, Water Cycle, Movie Math and more. Availability: Mon-Fri, Sep-May Cost: $100 per class Denver Zoo Availability: Sep-May denverzoo.org/education Denver Center for the Performing Arts ASSEMBLIES: DENVER ZOO denvercenter.org Field Trip or On Your Campus 303-893-6006 Grades: 1st-2nd grade at the zoo, Adaptable [email protected] to grade at your location Denver Zoo offers exciting and dynamic FIRE SAFETY OUTREACH assemblies that take large groups of students On-Campus Activity on an educational safari around the world! Grades: Adaptable to grade Zoo educators will engage your students with Staff member will present fire safety lessons. interactive and fun activities, and, of course, For ECE-K, includes crawl low under smoke; amazing live animals. safe for play, keep away; firefighters are At Denver Zoo (up to 150 participants, friends; and more. Older students will learn minimum of 50 students): about fire prevention, the science of fire, and Cost: $6/student (Sep-Feb) $7/student how to create escape plans for their home. (March-May) Custom lesson plans available upon request. Availability: Mon-Fri, Sep-May 10am, Cost: $50 per presentation. 11am, noon Availability: Inquire for availability At your location (up to 250 participants): Denver Firefighters Museum Cost: $400/first assembly, $175 each denverfirefightersmuseum.org additional consecutive assembly. 303-825-0608 (Education Desk) Availability: Dates and times vary, offered [email protected] Year-round Denver Zoo denverzoo.org/education DINOSAUR RIDGE

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AVIATION EXPLORATION Field Trip First grade and older Bring your students on an hour-long tour at Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a WWII-era Air Force hangar that houses more than 40 different aircraft, space vehicles and exhibits. Learn about the physics of flight and aircraft propulsion systems. The tour includes a viewing of Harrison Ford’s 8 minute movie which imparts his love of aerospace. 70 students maximum Cost: $8 per student Availability: Year-round Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum BUTTERFLY PAVILION WingsMuseum.org Amy Younger 303.360.5360 x121 [email protected] BUNK WITH THE BEASTS THE BUZZ ABOUT BEES Overnight Field Trip Experience Field Trip Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade SPEAKERS BUREAU Bunk with the Beasts is an overnight learning Learn how important bees and other Outreach program adventure at Denver Zoo, where students pollinators are to humans and plants during Grades: Adaptable to grade bond over nighttime Zoo hikes, hands- this guided field trip program. Students Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space on activities and other powerful learning will have the opportunity to explore the Museum’s Speakers Bureau is comprised of experiences that create memories to last various stages of the honeybee life cycle Wings Members with interesting aviation or a lifetime. Come experience the wonder! and the intricacies of pollination and honey aerospace backgrounds who have graciously Minimum age is 6 years old. production. This field trip includes a visit to volunteered their time and talent to speak Cost: Call for cost and availability the Apiary to see honeybees in action! to charitable, service, community and civic Denver Zoo Cost: $150 per 60-minute program (max organizations. Visit our website to learn [email protected] of 30 students and 3 chaperones); $5 per more about each speaker’s subjects and to 720-337-1494 additional student (max of 10 additional schedule a speaking engagement. students); $1 per additional chaperone. Cost: Donations accepted OUTDOOR TOUR OF FOUR DINOSAUR Financial assistance available for Availability: Year-round SITES ON DINOSAUR RIDGE (THE qualifying groups. Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space HOGBACK) Availability: April-Oct Museum Field Trip: From Visitor Center, bus/es The Hudson Gardens & Event Center WingsMuseum.org drive to sites nearby hudsongardens.org Hetty Carlson Grades: Adaptable to grade 303-797-8565 ext. 306 303.360.5360 X130 Guides show touchable fossils in outcrops [email protected] [email protected] at sites: dinosaur footrpints, dinosaur bones, and plant impressions. Evidence of ancient SELF-GUIDED MUSEUM TOUR environments (a seaway, beaches, a tidal Field Trip channel, marshes, swamps, rivers and lakes) Grades: Adaptable to grade is explained. Concepts and features such as Lead your students on a tour at Wings superposition, faults, a hogback, erosion, and Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, a basins are exemplified and discussed. WWII-era Air Force hangar that houses more Cost: $3 for students and adults, min. $36 than 40 different aircraft, space vehicles Tours: M-F 10am, 11:30am, 1pm and exhibits. Must have a minimum of 1 Dinosaur Ridge responsible adult chaperone for every 10 dinoridge.org students. 70 student maximum. 303-697-3466x101 Cost: $5 per student Tell us you “found [email protected] Availability: Year-round Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum the program in WingsMuseum.org Amy Younger the Directory!” 303.360.5360 x121 [email protected]

LOWER ELEMENTARY EARTH BALLOON STUFFEE ™ On-Campus Outreach only Field Trip or On-Campus Outreach COLORADO WATER AND YOU! Grades: L Grades: L Calling all young explorers! Learn about Stuffee™ is a one-of-a-kind ambassador for On-Campus Activity continents, countries, rivers, mountains and health. Learn all about your body and how it Grades: L, U oceans with a one-of-a-kind look at the Earth functions inside and out while getting tips for In this engaging hands-on program, students from inside our 26-foot-tall Earth Balloon. Best staying healthy. Best for grades Pre-K to 1st. will discover how water quality impacts the for grades K to 3rd. Cost: Outreach, $150 per session within the health of both wildlife and humans. Students Cost: $175 per session within the seven- seven-county region. Field Trip- $9 per child will study the movement of water at the county region. Availability: Year-round, Mon-Fri, 9:30am- molecular and landscape scale. With the roll Availability: Year-round (M-F 9:30-3:30) 3:30pm of a die students navigate through the water Children’s Museum of Denver of Children’s Museum of Denver at cycle and explore our three-dimensional Marsico Campus Marsico Campus watershed. This is a great stand-alone mychildsmuseum.org mychildsmuseum.org program, or as a follow-up or pre-trip program 303-561-0113 303-561-0113 to Bird Conservancy’s spring field trips. [email protected] [email protected] Cost: $4/participants as an independent program or $1/participant as a follow CIRCLE OF LIFE MATH MYSTERIES up to one of our field trips. Ask about scholarships. Field Trip or On-Campus Outreach Field Trip or On-Campus Outreach Availability: Year-round Grades: L Grades: L, Best for grades K to 1st Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Read, sing and dance your way through the Solve crime by solving math problems! In this birdconservancy.org life cycles of living things and learn about the interactive program, students will become 303-659-4348 ext. 10 adaptations that help animals survive and secret agents and use their math skills to save [email protected] thrive. Best for grades Pre-K to 1st. the world. We make learning math anything Cost: Outreach, $150 per session within the but boring! BEAUTIFUL BIRDS seven-county region. Field Trip- $9 per child Cost: Outreach, $150 per session within the Availability: Year-round, Mon-Fri, 9:30am- seven-county region. Field Trip- $9 per child On-Campus Activity 3:30pm Availability: Year-round, Mon-Fri, 9:30am- Grades: L, U Children’s Museum of Denver at 3:30pm Students will learn how birds’ physical features Marsico Campus Children’s Museum of Denver at increase their ability to survive in Colorado mychildsmuseum.org Marsico Campus habitats. Students will have the opportunity to 303-561-0113 mychildsmuseum.org creatively design their own habitat and a bird [email protected] 303-561-0113 with adaptations to survive in their habitat. It’s [email protected] a fun combination of art and science! This is a STAR LAB great follow-up or pre-trip program to many of KINETIC ENGINEERS the Bird Conservancy’s field trips. On-Campus Outreach only Cost: $4/participant as an independent Grades: L Field Trip or On-Campus Outreach program or $1/participant as a follow- Climb inside our portable planetarium and Grades: L up to one of our field trips. Ask about explore the night sky. Students will identify Calling all young engineers! Students will work scholarships. and locate constellations and enjoy star- in teams to complete design challenges and Availability: Year-round inspired myths and legends from diverse world investigate force and motion by building and Bird Conservancy of the Rockies cultures. Best for grades K to 3rd. testing different ramps and pathways. This birdconservancy.org Cost: $175 per session within the seven- program will get kids thinking and exploring 303-659-4348 ext. 10 county region like scientists and engineers! Best for 2nd [email protected] Availability: Year-round (Mon-Fri, 9:30am- grade. 3:30pm) Cost: Outreach, $150 per session within the Children’s Museum of Denver at seven-county region. Field Trip- $9 per child Marsico Campus Availability: Year-round, Mon-Fri, 9:30am- mychildsmuseum.org 3:30pm 303-561-0113 Children’s Museum of Denver at [email protected] Marsico Campus mychildsmuseum.org 303-561-0113 [email protected]

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GARDEN DISCOVERY DAYS CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Field Trip OF DENVER AT MARSICO CAMPUS Grades: L Discovery Days offer a unique mix of garden exploration, guided activities and self-guided activities. Groups can visit a variety of guided and self-guided stations throughout the Gardens at their own pace. At each station there is an activity related to the theme of the Discovery Day. In between stations, groups are encouraged to explore the Gardens on their own. Cost: $3.50 per student, scholarships available Availability: April, May and Sep – available selected weeks Denver Botanic Gardens botanicgardens.org METAMORPHOSIS MOVES GUIDED GARDEN FIELD TRIPS AT YORK 720-865-3580 On-Campus Activity STREET [email protected] Grades: L Field Trip Colorado Ballet and the Butterfly Pavilion Grades: L, U, M DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS AT PLAINS collaborate on this workshop. Students learn Our Guided Explorations emphasize CONSERVATION CENTER about the life cycle of the butterfly through student-led discovery in age-appropriate Field Trips movement in this interactive dance and experiences. Broaden your elementary Grades: L, U science class. students’ knowledge, make observations, Help your students grow their knowledge Cost: $200 + travel for first session, and tackle lessons made real with hands-on of prairie living in the 1800’s and prairie sequential sessions discounted experiences. Younger students explore the ecology with a program from Denver Botanic Scholarships may be available for eligible Gardens with their five senses and plant Gardens held at the Plains Conservation schools. something to take home. Guides will help you Center. Programs are immersive and cross- Availability: Year-round explore Colorado’s environment, encourage curricular and emphasize discovery and Colorado Ballet & Butterfly Pavilion developing skills and understand the world understanding through a variety of hands-on coloradoballet.org butterflies.org of plants. See botanicgardens.org for lists of activities and guided explorations. Choose Request a reservation online at programs for schools and teachers. a 3.5 hour program consisting of one or butterflies.org/learn Cost: $5 per student, scholarships two of the following topics of your choice: available Prairie Ecology, Cheyenne Camp or Sod BALANCE AND MOTION Availability: April, May, Sep and Oct Homestead. On-Campus Activity Denver Botanic Gardens Cost: $10 per student Grades: L, U botanicgardens.org Availability: Sept-Oct and March-May Balance and Motion is an in school workshop 720-865-3580 Denver Botanic Gardens at Plains recommended for kindergarten through [email protected] Conservation Center 5th grade. Students will explore on and off Botanicgardens.org balance and work with partners and props 720-865-3580 while developing their motor skills through fun [email protected] movement activities. Cost: Inquire Availability: Sept-May Colorado Ballet coloradoballet.com/community 303-339-1632 [email protected] LONE TREE ARTS CENTER

GARDEN FIELD TRIPS OR CLASSROOM VISITS Field Trips or On-Campus Visits DENVER BOTANIC Grades: L,U GARDENS We will work with your schedule and existing curriculum needs to provide engaging, educational and fun experiences in the garden or classroom. Field trips to the Growing Gardens Children’s Peace Garden are available to groups of children ages 3-11 March through November. We utilize engaging, hands-on garden activities to enhance your existing science and social studies curriculum. Or we can bring the garden to your classroom! Classroom visits can be presented as a series or individually. The range of topics and more information can be found on our website. Cost: See website for information Availability: Mar-Nov FIELD TRIP ADVENTURES NEW! AFTERSCHOOL ENRICHMENT Growing Gardens Field Trip PROGRAMS growingardens.org Grades: L, U, M On Your Campus [email protected] Maximize the learning impact of your Grades: L, U 303-443-9952x2 field trip time with an action-packed Field Denver Zoo offers single and multi-contact Trip Adventure. Choose from one of the afterschool and summer programming for LET’S GET GROWING! preplanned, 3 to 3.5 hour integrated youth ages 3 - 11. Learner-driven lessons Field Trip experiences that combine hands on engage youth in games, indoor and outdoor Grades: L, U investigations in one of our state-of-the- activities, science investigation, engineering, Take your students on a plant adventure with art Exploration Studios, visits to unique project-based learning, wildlife conservation, this self-guided activity pack! Through hands- exhibitions, and more. As part of our preK-2 and visits with live animals. Multi-contact on activities, students discover plant diversity, program Dino Detectives, students become programming (up to 8 lessons over 8 weeks) explore a plant’s life cycle from small seed to paleontologists and uncover clues from the is based around a common theme, and tasty vegetable, and observe bee pollination past, while in the Bear Necessities Field Trip lessons scaffold on one another. in action. This pack includes materials for a Adventure, students don bear costumes for Cost: $150/lesson, 10% discount if seed growing activity to help you continue imaginative play and experiential learning. more than 4 program days are booked. your plant investigation in the classroom. See website for detailed information on other Scholarships available. Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus Field Trip Adventures including the unraveling Availability: Dates and times vary, offered a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental of our mummies themed adventure! We Year-round. Call 720-337-1634 to arrange fee includes admission for a max of 10 provide a detailed itinerary for each, and all multi-contact programming. students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs support the Colorado Academic Standards. Denver Zoo available. Additional chaperones are $1 Cost: See website for information. denverzoo.org/education each. Financial assistance available for Scholarships available. qualifying groups. Availability: Sep-May Availability: May-Sep Denver Museum of Nature & Science The Hudson Gardens & Event Center dmns.org/teachers hudsongardens.org 303-797-8565 ext. 306 [email protected]

GROWING GARDENS

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FROG QUEST WOODLAND WONDERS SECRET SPACES Field Trip Field Trip Field Trip Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Grades: L, U Did you know that frogs use their eyeballs Have you ever wondered what Dr. Seuss In addition to thousands of plants, The to swallow? Or that they eat their own skin? had to say about trees? Choose this “in- Gardens are also home to wildlife including Your students will discover the answers to tree-active,” self-guided journey to find out! fox, geese, coyotes, insects, turtles and these questions and many more as they Exploring real tree specimens and products more! By examining various animal habitats observe live frogs in their pond habitat using supplied in an activity pack, your students will and adaptations using materials supplied in this self-guided activity pack. Guided by discover the basics of tree anatomy and gain an activity pack, students will uncover the materials such as binoculars, webbed finger an understanding of the important role that reasons why wildlife seek refuge and how gloves, and an interpretive model of the frog trees play in our everyday lives. they survive in the “secret spaces” of an life cycle, this program imparts important Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus urban habitat. lessons about life cycles, adaptations, and a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus communication. fee includes admission for a max of 10 a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs fee includes admission for a max of 10 a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental available. Additional chaperones are $1 students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs fee includes admission for a max of 10 each. Financial assistance available for available. Additional chaperones are $1 students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs qualifying groups. each. Financial assistance available for available. Additional chaperones are $1 Availability: April-Oct qualifying groups. each. Financial assistance available for The Hudson Gardens & Event Center Availability: April-Oct qualifying groups. hudsongardens.org The Hudson Gardens & Event Center Availability: May-Sep 303-797-8565 ext. 306 hudsongardens.org The Hudson Gardens & Event Center [email protected] 303-797-8565 ext. 306 hudsongardens.org [email protected] 303-797-8565 ext.306 LEAF LOOKOUT [email protected] Field Trip NATURE HUNT Grades: L, U Field Trip MAKING SENSE Celebrate fall with an exploration of The Grades: L, U Field Trip Gardens’ changing colors! The materials in Students always love a good old-fashioned Grades: L this activity pack will help your students learn scavenger hunt! The self-guided Nature Using their five senses as a guide, students why leaves change color as they search for Hunt will encourage students to discover discover the array of colors, noises, scents, leaves of all shapes, sizes, and colors. This the hidden sights, sounds, and scents of the and textures that make up the plant world. self-guided fall journey wraps up with a visit Gardens’ plants and wildlife in every season. From a search for smells in the Chocolate to the Pumpkin Patch and straw bale maze! Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus Garden to a sound mystery, this activity pack Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental will help guide your students as they uncover a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental fee includes admission for a max of 10 the sensory characteristics of several fee includes admission for a max of 10 students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs features of The Gardens. students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs available. Additional chaperones are $1 Cost: $30 rental fee per activity pack plus available. Additional chaperones are $1 each. Financial assistance available for a $10 refundable deposit per group. Rental each. Financial assistance available for qualifying groups. fee includes admission for a max of 10 qualifying groups. Availability: Year-round students and 1 chaperone. Multiple packs Availability: Sep-Oct The Hudson Gardens & Event Center available. Additional chaperones are $1 The Hudson Gardens & Event Center hudsongardens.org each. Financial assistance available for hudsongardens.org 303-797-8565 ext. 306 qualifying groups 303-797-8565 ext. 306 [email protected] Availability: May-Sep [email protected] The Hudson Gardens & Event Center hudsongardens.org 303-797-8565 ext. 306 [email protected]

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DINOSAUR ZOO LIVE – THEATRE ROMPING STOMPING DINOSAURS SCIENCE OF CLIMBING PERFORMANCE Field Trip or On-Campus Field Trip Field Trip Grades: L Grades: U, M (grades 4 to 8) Grades: L, U Your two-hour self-guided field trip includes a Experience rock climbing on our indoor wall Get ready for the ultimate playdate-65 30-minute math and life science exploration and choose a complementary focus based on million years in the making! You’ll observe, facilitated by WOW! staff. Hold a baby grade level and interest. Science focus: 4th- meet, and interact with an eye-popping Stegosaurus. Compare your foot to big and 6th Geology (Discover how rocks of Colorado collection of amazingly life-like dinosaurs and small dinosaur tracks. Look inside a dinosaur’s tell an exciting story of landscapes that were other creatures. Presented in a theatrical lunchbox. Make a dinosaur fossil craft! This different than what we see today); 7th-8th- performance that will thrill and entertain kids program is also available in a longer version Physics (Bring the concepts of friction and while stimulating their imaginations in ways for on-campus outreach at your school. Please force to life). Climbing can also be combined that will forever connect them to their world. visit our website for more information about with Teambuilding focus for all grade levels. Cost: $10/student (up to 10 chaperones our field trips and outreach programs. Cost: call or check website free) Cost: Scholarships available, please check Availability: Year-round Availability: Nov 07, 2016 our website. Location: American Mountaineering Center Lone Tree Arts Center Availability: Year-round, reservations Colorado Mountain Club LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools required cmc.org/yep 720-509-1000 WOW! Children’s Museum 303-996-2751 [email protected] wowchildrensmuseum.org [email protected] 303-604-2424, Ext. 707 BODYGUARD! PROTECTOR OF THE [email protected] COLORADO’S GEOLOGY – ANATOMY (GUARDAESPALDAS! MOUNTAINS TO MESAS PROTECTOR DE ANATOMÍA) On-Campus Activity or Field Trip THEATRE PERFORMANCE UPPER ELEMENTARY Grades: U, M Field Trip The rocks of Colorado tell an exciting story Grades: L MIGRATORY MAPPING OR of landscapes that were far different than Diego isn’t feeling well and no one believes MIGRATORY DATA what we see today. Learn how to identify him, except Natalie. She’s willing to take a On-Campus Activity rock characteristics through hands-on journey of microscopic proportions through Grades: U, M observations, how rocks were formed, and his anatomy to hunt for answers. She’ll Students use real scientific data to further how past environments relate to the local traverse the nervous system, swim through their understanding of migratory patterns and outdoor spaces we enjoy. the bloodstream, and bounce on the brain. discover factors that drive bird migration. In Cost: call or check website Can she diagnose the illness before it’s too the Migratory Mapping program, students use Availability: Year-round late? Find out in the action packed bilingual bird banding data to map migratory routes of Location: American Mountaineering Center (Spanish/English) musical. bird species banded at Bird Conservancy’s or school classroom Cost: $5/student (up to 10 chaperones banding station. The Migratory Data program Colorado Mountain Club free) will focus on students analyzing and graphing cmc.org/yep Availability: Oct 25, 2016 data collected at Bird Conservancy’s banding 303-996-2751 Lone Tree Arts Center station. These programs are a suitable follow- [email protected] LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools up to a “Barr Lake Bird Banding” trip. 720-509-1000 Cost: $4/participant as an independent [email protected] program or $1/participant as a follow-up our field trips. Ask about scholarships. FLIGHT ENGINEER Availability: Year-round Field Trip Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Grades: L, U birdconservancy.org This hour and a half long tour is an 303-659-4348 ext. 10 unabridged version of the Aviation [email protected] Exploration tour. Students will learn the basics of the four forces of flight and how aircraft control surfaces work by building and flying a balsa plane. The program includes a viewing of Harrison Ford’s 8 minute movie that shares his love of aerospace. 70 student maximum Cost: $8 per student Availability: Year-round Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum WingsMuseum.org Amy Younger 303.360.5360 x121 [email protected]

WOW! CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

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COLORADO WEATHER: FROM THE CAPTURING THE CLIMB: A HISTORICAL MOUNTAINS TO THE PLAINS AND GEOGRAPHICAL LOOK AT HOW On-Campus Activity or Field Trip AND WHY PEOPLE CLIMB MOUNTAINS Grades: U Grades: U, M Gain awareness of Colorado’s variable Field Trip weather through observation and Tour the American Mountaineering Museum investigation. Cloud types, wind, and to learn about the pioneers of mountaineering topography all provide clues about local throughout the world. Students will recognize weather. Our experiments with static how people climb through interactive electricity using a Van der Graff generator are stations and classroom activities. Activities hair-raising and fun! may include: physical preparation for an Cost: call or check website expedition, topographic map reading and Availability: Year-round navigation, equipment from the 1920’s to Location: American Mountaineering Center today, and more! Indoor rock climbing may be (AMC), school classrooms, or outreach added on if time allows. location Availability: Year-round Colorado Mountain Club Location: American Mountaineering Center cmc.org/yep Colorado Mountain Club 303-996-2751 cmc.org/yep [email protected] 303-996-2751 [email protected] AVALANCHE SAFETY AND SNOW SCIENCE MUSIC OF LIFE - INTEGRATED LIFE Grades: U, M, H SCIENCE AND MUSIC PROGRAM Field Trip Assembly Gain awareness of the powerful destructive Grades: U, L forces of avalanches through hands-on An imaginative integrated arts program. Eco- activities. Students will simulate avalanches, systems, and the life cycle of the butterfly are measure slope angles, build snow packs and combined with music concepts like theme practice using rescue equipment. Classes and variations, and melodic development. ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS encourage teamwork and decision-making This program pairs well with Aesop’s Fables among participants. Bring your students for schools that also want a program for lower to the American Mountaineering Center to elementary grade students. experiment with our Avalanche Model, or Cost: $800 for two back-to-back bring them to experience the mountains in performances. Financial assistance is MATHNOTES - INTEGRATED MATH the snow! Students will assess terrain and available. AND MUSIC PROGRAM snow pack, dig a snow pit, examine snow Availability: Sep-May Assembly crystals, and work together with your team to Colorado Symphony Grades: U, L conduct a mock snow rescue. coloradosymphony.org An innovative and popular integrated arts Availability: Winter Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 program highlighting the relationships Location: American Mountaineering Center [email protected] between music and mathematics, and (AMC) or field site how each can help explain the other. The Colorado Mountain Club Steadfast Tin Soldier program can be cmc.org/yep combined with MathNotes for schools that 303-996-2751 also want a program for lower elementary [email protected] grade students. Cost: $800 for two back-to-back performances. Financial assistance is available. DENVER MUSEUM OF Availability: Sep-May NATURE AND SCIENCE Colorado Symphony coloradosymphony.org Shari Myers – 303-534-0755 [email protected]

THE ECOSYSTEMS OF CHATFIELD MYSTERY AT THE MUSEUM VIRTUAL CLASSES Field Trip Field Trip Distance Learning Grades: U Grades: U, M (grades 6-8) Grades: U, M Discover Chatfield’s diverse ecosystems Intrigue and surprise abound in this Virtual Science Academy offers award- while learning about habitats, animal immersive experience in which students will winning interactive experiences that bring the adaptations and connections between put their teamwork and logic to the test to best of the Museum directly to you. No lesson the living and nonliving components of an solve the mysterious poisoning of a museum plan? No problem! Virtual Science Academy ecosystem. During this guided program, scientist. By investigating plants and animals makes classroom life easier by presenting students will participate in interactive for their toxic qualities, students will get to content in line with school curriculum. activities while visiting the wetlands, the the bottom of this thought-provoking puzzle, Students will engage their minds, curiosities, riparian ecosystem and the farm. After the then use detective skills to uncover museum and imaginations as they interact live with guided portion, students can complete a self- mysteries in a scavenger hunt of epic Museum educators. Travel millions of miles guided scavenger hunt and bird walk. educational proportions. into space, step back into the Jurassic Cost: $5 per student, scholarships Cost: $8/student (includes Museum Period, explore the human body through live available admission), 1 free adult/10 students, $8/ dissections, or let us help you have “the talk.” Availability: Sep, Nov, March, April and additional adult Cost: See website for more info. May Availability: On-request. Scholarships Scholarships available Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield available. Availability: Year-round, software & Skype Farms Denver Museum of Nature & Science connections available botanicgardens.org dmns.org/teachers Denver Museum of Nature & Science 720-865-3580 dmns.org/teachers [email protected] AT YOUR SCHOOL EXPERIENCES On-Campus Activity SERVICE LEARNING PROGRAMS DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS AT PLAINS Grades: U, M On Your Campus CONSERVATION CENTER PRAIRIE Inspire curiosity in your students through Grades: U, H PERSPECTIVES AND OVERNIGHT these dynamic and authentic science Engage students in wildlife and Field Trip experiences that surprise and delight. Sign environmental-based service-learning Grades: U up for a larger than life museum experience projects in their communities with our Prairie Perspectives Immersion Plus Optional brought directly to your classroom! Community Leadership, Water Stewards, Overnight at Plains Conservation Center Cost: Please reference website below or Water & Sustainability Programs. Note Immerse your students in the challenge of for updated pricing. Limited scholarships these programs are multi-contact, number adopting the perspective of a child growing available. Travel fees may apply. of lessons vary depending on audience, and up in the 1800’s as a Cheyenne Indian or Availability: Year-round some teacher program facilitation is required. a homesteader while exploring the prairie Denver Museum of Nature & Science Some include field trips to Denver Zoo. Up to ecosystem. They will participate in activities dmns.org/teachers 30 participants. at the homestead and Cheyenne camp, Cost: Cost varies depending on program cook their own meal, journal and connect to SCIENTISTS IN ACTION (between $400-$780). Discounts for their local grassland ecosystem and cultural Distance Learning consecutive classes. Scholarships history. Optional overnight incudes campfire, Grades: U, M available. storytelling, wagon rides, and sleeping in tipis. Want to take your students on an amazing Availability: Varies; offered Year-round Cost: One Day Prairie Perspective field trip without leaving your room? Connect Denver Zoo Immersion 9am-5:30pm: $60 per student your students with experts and scientists denverzoo.org/education One Day Prairie Perspective Plus Optional during live 45-minute broadcasts from field Overnight ending at 9am: $125 per student sites or research labs. Beaming in exploration JUST KEEP SWIMMING Availability: One Day Immersion: Sept-Oct and wonder to classrooms all around the On-Campus or Field Trip and March-May (Overnights available in globe! Grades: U, M, H May and Sept only) Cost: FREE Description: Meet a few of Colorado’s game Denver Botanic Gardens at Plains Availability: As Scheduled fish as we explore their habitats and biology. Conservation Center Denver Museum of Nature & Science Students learn about native and nonnative Botanicgardens.org dmns.org/teachers fish species, aquatic ecology, fish anatomy 720-865-3580 and adaptation. Then we hit the field or gym [email protected] for casting games with actual fishing rods. ** This program can also be taught at a lake and students can experience real fishing. Please contact ELK to select the most convenient location for your school. Cost: $100/per hour Availability: Year-round Program Length: dependent on participant numbers Environmental Learning for Kids Tell us you “found the program elkkids.org 303.291.7693 in the Directory!” Brad Paterson [email protected]

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POLYGON PATTERNS UPDATED! YOUNG SCIENTISTS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE On-Campus Activity Multi-contact, Field Trip and On Your THE LENS OF ADVENTURE Grades: U, L Campus Field Trip Geometry, statistics and algebraic Grades: M, H Grades: M, H relationships come to life! Students will create Young Scientists programs offer middle and Go behind the scenes of National Geographic sumptuous polygon color patterns and learn high school audiences an opportunity to use in this Explorer Talk with Filmmaker Bryan to use them to collect and represent data. scientific and engineering practices within a Smith. An experienced kayaker who had Program time is flexible 1 1/2- or 2 hours. hands-on, real life application experience. paddled steep rivers in India, Peru, and Best suited to grades 2 -5. These multi-contact, standard based Russia, Smith was inspired to take up Cost: $8/person (minimum fee/$160) programs enable students to develop their video photography while protesting a Availability: Year-round STEM skills at your school as well as at the hydroelectric dam project that threatened MACC at the Robert E. Loup JCC zoo. Students can learn about exhibit design British Columbian rivers. Meet this dynamic maccjcc.org in our Exhibit Engineers program or develop filmmaker, adventurer, and conservationist 303-316-6302 and investigate their own questions in our for amazing stories and intense footage in [email protected] Animal Investigation program. Please see our stunning locations. website for more information. Cost: $10/student (up to 10 chaperones Cost: $45 per student free) Availability: Weekdays, Sept-April Availability: Nov 16, 2016 MIDDLE SCHOOL Denver Zoo Lone Tree Arts Center http://denverzoo.org/young-scientists LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools CAREER WORKSHOPS 720-509-1000 Field Trip NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE [email protected] Grades: M, H ON THE TRAIL OF BIG CATS: TIGERS, Inspire your students with a peek into the COUGARS, AND SNOW LEOPARDS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE life of a zoo professional. These hands- Field Trip THE SEARCH OF LIFE BEYOND EARTH on programs provide insight into the work Grades: M, H Field Trip of zoo keepers, veterinarians, and more! Join award-winning National Geographic Grades: M, H All topics include engaging activities, live photographer Steve Winter for a thrilling Go behind the scenes of National Geographic animal demonstrations, guided zoo tours and journey into the world of big cats. From in this Explorer Talk with Astrobiologist Kevin thought-provoking discussions about animal- trekking high in India’s Himalayas in search Hand, who is searching for life beyond Earth. related careers. Maximum of 30 students. of rare snow leopards and stalking the Working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Cost: $420 Sep-Feb $480 March-May elusive jaguar through Latin American jungles Pasadena, he designs instruments that will Availability: Weekdays, Sep-Apr; to chronicling the nocturnal activities of the travel to Jupiter’s moon Europa to search weekends are possible, call 720-337-1408 “American lion” or cougar, this determined for a possible subsurface ocean that may to arrange. explorer ventures far and wide to come face support primitive forms of life. His work often Denver Zoo to face with his subjects. takes him out of the lab to visit some of the denverzoo.org/education Cost: $10/student (up to 10 chaperones world’s most forbidding environments. free) Cost: $10/student (up to 10 chaperones Availability: Sep 28, 2016 free) Lone Tree Arts Center Availability: Jan 18, 2017 LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools Lone Tree Arts Center 720-509-1000 LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools [email protected] 720-509-1000 [email protected]

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK: TEACHER PROGRAMS SPINOSAURUS: LOST GIANT OF THEATER PERFORMANCE Resource THE CRETACEOUS Field Trip Grades: Early Childhood PD Field Trip Grades: M, H Roll up your sleeves and play with us! Our Grades: M, H Adapted from Anne Frank: The Diary of early childhood professional development Go behind the scenes of National Geographic a Young Girl, edited by Otto Frank. In programs support and enhance the incredible in this Explorer Talk with Paleontologist this gripping new adaptation by Wendy work already underway in your classrooms. Nizar Ibrahim. Meet Spinosaurus, the largest Kesselman, from the original stage play by Designed with you in mind, these programs predatory dinosaur yet discovered—larger Goodrich and Hackett, newly discovered integrate science and scientific inquiry than T. rex. Hear the story of how this writings from the diary of Anne Frank, as into every part of the classroom, providing prehistoric giant was almost lost to science, well as survivor accounts, are interwoven to take away activities and skills that can be before being brought back to light. With create a contemporary impassioned story immediately applied. amazing video recreating the world of the of the lives of people persecuted under Cost: See website for information Cretaceous-era Sahara, Ibrahim will tell the Nazi rule. This is an adaptation for a new Availability: Year-round story of Spinosaurus’ discovery, loss, and generation able to confront the true horrors of Denver Museum of Nature & Science rediscovery, and explain what makes this the Holocaust. dmns.org/teachers ancient monster unique. Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones Cost: $10/student (up to 10 chaperones free) TEACHER PROGRAMS free) Availability: Nov 11, 10am Resource Availability: May 17, 2017 The Schoolhouse Theater Grades: K-12 PD Lone Tree Arts Center parkerarts.org/schools Through inquiry and wonder, our expert LoneTreeArtsCenter.org/schools 303-805-6800 leaders and guest speakers reignite your 720-509-1000 [email protected] passion in the classroom with the support of [email protected] our eye-opening and hands-on professional development courses, workshops, and SO SOLID PROFESSIONAL webinars for educators of all grade levels On-Campus Activity including ECE. Designed to meet your needs, Grades: M DEVELOPMENT these programs provide you with instantly Students learn to draw the five basic applicable tools for the real classroom. geometric solids. Creating increasingly TEACHER WORKSHOPS/RESOURCES Cost: See website for information complex stacked arrangements of these Resource Availability: Year-round shapes, participants will integrate art, Grades: PD Denver Museum of Nature & Science geometry and spatial thinking. Program run Enhance your teaching with our interactive dmns.org/teachers time is flexible 1½ or 2 hours. workshops. Designed to correlate with Cost: $8/person (minimum fee $160) academic standards, our workshops are WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES TEACHER Availability: Year-round interdisciplinary combining science content FLIGHT PROGRAM MACC at the Robert E. Loup JCC with art, literature, inquiry, and more! Register Front Range School Districts maccjcc.org online at butterflies.org/learn. Credit is Grades: PD 303-316-6302 available through CO School of Mines. Come fly in a 1942 Stearman biplane for [email protected] Cost: Varies by Workshop, member and free! Front Range STEM teachers can non-member pricing introduce the world of flight to their students Availability: Year-round by becoming a Teacher Envoy with the Butterfly Pavilion Wings Over the Rockies Teacher Flight butterflies.org/learn Program. After a flight in our completely [email protected] restored 1942 Stearman biplane, Teacher Envoys can share the educational resources and attractions found at Wings with their students. The participating teacher’s entire school population will receive a one-time free admission pass to explore the museum with a paying parent or guardian. WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES Cost: Free AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM Availability: Year-round Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum WingsTeacherFlight.org Hetty Carlson 303.360.5360 x6 [email protected]

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ADAPTABLE TO GRADE COLORADO RAILROADS ON YOUR OWN ARTIFACT TRUNKS On-Campus Activity On-Campus Activity MUSEUM AND PIONEER ARTS DAYS Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grades (PreK to 6th) OR CULTURAL ARTS DAYS This self-guided tour begins with an Explore various objects used by trains to introductory power point presentation led by better understand the impact railroads had on Field Trip or On-Campus Activity a museum docent before students set out Colorado and U.S. history. Grades: Adaptable to grade on their own to explore all the history the Cost: $4 per child, one supervisor for Integrate the arts into your curriculum with Colorado Railroad Museum has to offer. every five children (under 12). Supervisors workshops taught by professional artists Cost: $4 per child, one supervisor for receive free Museum admission. using arts to explore Colorado history and every five children (under 12). Supervisors Availability: By reservation world cultures. Specific workshops and receive free Museum admission. Colorado Railroad Museum programs for: Songs and Tales from Colorado Availability: By reservation ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org Trails, Molly Brown, Pre-Revolutionary Colorado Railroad Museum 303-279-4581/800-365-6263 America, Shakespeare, Native Americans, ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org [email protected] African Arts and Interactive Storytelling. For 303-279-4581/800-365-6263 complete program listing & descriptions visit [email protected] DRAMATIC LEARNING™: arvadacenter.org/education/arts-day. Field SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HISTORY Trips include assembly style programs, your choice of interactive workshop(s), and On-Campus Activity or Field Trip docent lead tours and activities in our history Grades: Adaptable to grade museum. Outreaches are scheduled and Dramatic Learning™ is a tailored in-school designed based on the group’s needs. program, which uses theatre exercises Cost: Student $4 to $11; Adult: $4 to $11. to teach any curriculum (history, poetry, Assembly $250 to $500. Discounts are science, math, etc.).Workshops are led by available for Title 1 schools and ADA experienced teaching artists who address groups. multiple learning styles and require full Availability: Outreach Year-round/ Daily, In- participation from students and teachers. house programs run 9am to 4pm, Mon-Fri Past workshops include: Ellis Island Arvada Center for the Arts and Experience, Ancient Civilizations, Economics Humanities and Personal Finance, Civil Rights, Colorado arvadacenter.org History, US Government and more. 720-898-7240 Cost: $100 per class [email protected] Availability: Sep-May Denver Center for the DELANEY FARM HISTORIC SITE TOUR Performing Arts denvercenter.org Field Trip 303-893-6006 Grades: Adaptable to grade [email protected] Experience 1870s homesteading life in Aurora on a guided walking tour of DeLaney Farm Historic Site. Includes access to Gully Homestead House and the DeLaney round barn. Cost: $3/student; 2 adults free/10 students Availability: Mar-Oct Aurora History Museum auroramuseum.org COLORADO 303-739-6663 RAILROAD [email protected] MUSEUM

ART & CULTURE TOURS COMMERCIAL GROWTH MUSEUM TOUR HISTORICAL DECADE TRUNKS Field Trip Field Trip Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade These in-depth interactive tours encourage What do a diner, variety store, motel and Get up close and personal with real artifacts students to examine objects and ideas beauty salon have in common? All were types while exploring our area’s culture and from world cultures. Students are led in of businesses that contributed to commercial history. See the change in fashion through games, discussion, artmaking, writing, and growth after World War II. Students will the years, calculate the changing costs of collaborative work. Tours include: Africa, explore the White Way Grill, 88-cent Store a car, discover how world events affected American Indian, Japan, Mexico: Ancient and other buildings with math activities and communities and learn about pop culture Maya, Spanish Colonial & Southwest hands-on artifacts to learn how much a “bun trends. 10 trunks available: 1900s-1990s. Colorado, The Ancient Maya, and Design & pup with cow feed” cost and which games Cost: $2/student and $2/chaperone onsite, Innovation: Art of Architecture with optional 45 kids played in the 1950s. $50/program with presenter or $40/ min artmaking. Tours address 21st Century Cost: Per rotation-$1/student, $1/ day without presenter off-site. Skills and 2009 CO Academic Standards. chaperone, teacher/free Availability: Year-round Cost: FREE for students and adult Availability: Year-round Lakewood Heritage Center chaperones; one chaperone for every 10 Lakewood Heritage Center lakewood.org students. Divide class into groups of 10. lakewood.org 303-987-7879 Bus transportation funding assistance 303-987-7879 [email protected] available for designated Title I schools to [email protected] cover up to 90% of total costs. 4,000 YEAR ROAD TRIP: GATHERING Availability: Tues-Fri at 9:45am & 11am COMMUNITY CULTURE MUSEUM TOUR SPARKS starting Sep 16, 2016. Field Trip Field Trip Field trip reservations must be booked at Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade least three weeks in advance. To reserve, What was home life like for children in the Engage students in discussions about call 720-913-0088 or email groupsales@ 1920s and 1930s? Students will experience social justice and cultural identity by visiting denverartmuseum.org. a 1920s school day, kids’ jobs on a farm our permanent exhibit, 4,000 Year Road Denver Art Museum and life during the struggles of the Great Trip: Gathering Sparks. The exhibit takes creativity.denverartmuseum.org Depression. students on an interactive journey through Cost: Per rotation-$1/student, $1/ Jewish history and heritage and celebrates AGRICULTURE MUSEUM TOUR chaperone, teacher/free; Discounts contemporary Jewish culture to inspire social Field Trip available for multiple tours transformation and civic engagement. The Grades: Adaptable to grade Availability: Year-round exhibit’s vibrant art installations, rare artifacts, Students will discover what life was like on Lakewood Heritage Center digital media and photography create a an early 20th century farm before modern lakewood.org visual storyline that illuminates the richness technology. Rotations include creating 303-987-7879 of Jewish life. Customized tours and add-on your own Victory Garden, Silent Movie [email protected] programs are available. science,participating in a livestock auction, Cost: $5 student; Add-on program $3 buzz saw or farm equipment demos, Model A Scholarships available car activities and hayrides. Availability: Year-round Cost: Per rotation-$1/student, $1 Mizel Museum chaperone, teacher/free mizelmuseum.org Availability: Year-round 303-749-5016 Lakewood Heritage Center [email protected] lakewood.org 303-987-7879 BRIDGES OF CULTURAL [email protected] UNDERSTANDING On-Campus Exhibit Grades: Adaptable to grade Bring museum-quality, cross-cultural education right into your school! Bridges of Cultural Understanding, our traveling exhibits LAKEWOOD HERITAGE and associated programming, teach cross- CENTER cultural understanding through an interactive presentation of themes and rituals from around the world. Cultural objects invite students to explore commonalities and differences among various traditions. Includes presentations by museum educators. Inquire about the Musical Globetrotters concert featuring world music as a complement to the exhibits or as a stand- alone event. Cost: $250 plus $1/student Scholarships available Availability: Please inquire Mizel Museum mizelmuseum.org 303-749-5016 [email protected]

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INTERACTIVE MUSEUM TOURS LAURA INGALLS WILDER: SOUND IDEAS FROM AROUND THE AND CLASSROOM PROGRAMS CHILDREN’S MUSICAL THEATER WORLD On-Campus & Field Trip Field Trip Field Trip or On-Campus Activity Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Grades: Adaptable to grade Educators bring interactive experiences Laura and her family travel across the This assembly teaches lessons in geography, to your classroom exploring local history unsettled frontier of the late-1800s American social studies, languages, all through through programs such as Lego City, Denver Midwest in search of a place they can call wondrous musical instruments that Michael Grows!, and more! Join us on site in addition home. Facing obstacles such as scarlet fever Stanwood has collected through his travels. to a classroom program or on its own. Step and eviction from their land, their pioneering Michael is a former goodwill ambassador for back in time and explore the life of Molly spirit and family bonds are tested but the U.S. State Department. (45 minutes) Brown and Colorado History. Scholarships never broken. This uplifting story of one of Cost: $350 + 10¢ per student, financial available. America’s most beloved authors comes to life assistance may be available Cost: Museum Tours: K-8-$4, HS-$5 in ArtsPower’s popular musical. Availability: Year-round Classroom Programs: $100 Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones Swallow Hill Music Availability: Year-round free) swallowhillmusic.org Molly Brown House Museum Availability: March 2, 10am and 12pm 303-643-5819 mollybrown.org/learn Parker Arts Culture and Events [email protected] 303-832-4092 x17 Center (PACE) [email protected] parkerarts.org/schools COLORADO HISTORY THROUGH SONG 303-805-6800 Field Trip or On-Campus Activity CIRQUE MONTAGE: [email protected] Grades: Adaptable to grade WORLD CULTURAL PERFORMANCE Colorado has a rich tradition of music through Field Trip RHYTHM: A MULTICULTURAL MUSIC its history. Native Americans were the first Grades: Adaptable to grade EXPERIENCE settlers and had their own musical traditions. Featuring former artists of Cirque du Soleil, Field Trip or On-Campus Activity The following waves of explorers and settlers this troupe of eleven international, award- Grades: Adaptable to grade all contributed to our musical heritage as winning performers enchant audiences with This assembly explores rhythm as it has well. During the performance, the musicians aerial techniques, jugglers, contortionists, come out of Africa through the Caribbean, will share songs of mountain men, explorers, and much more! Brazil and up through the Americas. Students farmers, ranchers and miners and will finish Cost: $7/student (up to 10 chaperones will also gain an appreciation for other the assembly with recognizable and modern free) cultures. (45 minutes) Colorado songs. (45 minutes) Availability: March 24, 10am Cost: $400 + 10¢ per student, financial Cost: $385 + 10¢ per student, financial Parker Arts Culture and Events assistance may be available assistance may be available Center (PACE) Availability: Year-round Availability: Year-round pacecenteronline.org/school Swallow Hill Music Swallow Hill Music 303-805-6800 swallowhillmusic.org swallowhillmusic.org [email protected] 303-643-5819 303-643-5819 [email protected] [email protected]

TESORO CULTURAL CENTER LIVING HISTORY SCHOOL TOUR Field Trip, Morrison, CO MOLLY Grades: Adaptable to grade BROWN Led by historic interpreters in period attire, HOUSE MUSEUM this interactive field trip engages students in 1830s life at Bent’s Fort, Colorado. Students learn about Colorado’s history of cultural diversity and Bent’s Fort as an international trading post. Students dress up as mountain men, trappers, traders and Plains Indians, participate in an interactive trunk show, take a tour of The Fort, and enjoy an historic lunch (buffalo burgers or posole.) Cost: Tour, Trunk Show, and Lunch: $11/ person. Available: Year-round Tesoro Cultural Center tesoroculturalcenter.org 303-839-1671 [email protected] Tell us you “found the program in the Directory!”

LOWER ELEMENTARY KUSOGEA NOBI DRUM ENSEMBLE AURORA HISTORY TRUNK Field Trip or On-Campus Activity On-Campus Activity EXPLORE HISTORY SCHOOL TOUR Grades: L, M, U Grades: L, U This vibrant and energetic performance, Learn about the history of Aurora from the Field Trip based on traditions of West Africa, takes the Homestead Act to highways and more. Grades: L, U audience on a rhythmical journey from Africa Students interact with objects to discover School tours generally include a wagon ride; to New World and back to Africa. “Kusogea” more about our community and how it demonstrations with blacksmithing, rope in Ki-Swahili that means “to move.” “Nobi” developed over time. making, corn grinding and weaving; docents is an indigenous word that means “people.” Cost: $35 per presentation to talk about our one-room schoolhouse, Kusogea Nobi moves people! Availability: Year-round the geology & earth science section, Native Cost: $400 in-house, $500 outreach Aurora History Museum Americans, the Conoco Station, the 1920 Availability: Outreach Year-round/ Daily in- AuroraMuseum.org railroad caboose, the 1887 two-story house programs run 9am to 4pm, Mon-Fri 303-739-6663 Victorian house and our 1931 Ford fire Arvada Center for the Arts and [email protected] engine. Humanities Cost: $2 per student & chaperone arvadacenter.org WORLD DANCE AND DRUMMING Availability: April, May & Sept 720-898-7240 Adams County Museum Field Trip or On-Campus Outreach [email protected] adamscountymuseum.com Grades L 303-659-7103 Take a rhythm journey around the world AURORA CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER, [email protected] as we learn about drums and dance from COURT HOUSE AND MUSEUM TOUR diverse cultures. Students will all get to SONGS AND TALES FROM COLORADO Field Trip try their hands at different drums in this TRAILS Grades: L, U interactive musical adventure combining Students see inside a court room and geography, arts and culture. Best for Field Trip or Outreach potentially speak with a judge. In the grades Pre-K to 1st. Grades: L, U Council Chambers they learn about Aurora Cost: Outreach—$150 per session within Dressed in typical 1860’s attire, Susannah city government. The history museum tour the seven-county region. Field Trip—$9 and Jackson will tell stories of pioneer includes the Growing Home exhibit about per child experiences while crossing the plains, Aurora history and lets students climb aboard Availability: Year-round (Mon-Fri, 9:30am- interspersed with songs about early Colorado the 1913 trolley trailer. 3:30pm) pioneer women - Clara Brown, Chipeta, Cost: $3/student; 2 adults free/10 students Children’s Museum of Denver at Silverheels, Rattlesnake Kate, and Matilda Availability: Wed and Fri only Marsico Campus Godfrey. Tales include Native Americans, Aurora History Museum mychildsmuseum.org miners, cowboys, and ranchers. Songs are AuroraMuseum.org 303-561-0113 accompanied by traditional instruments such 303-739-6663 [email protected] as: banjo, dulcimer, and autoharp. Even their [email protected] lumberjack family becomes a part of the show and encourages audience participation. UPPER ELEMENTARY Cost: $200 in-house, $250 outreach Availability: Outreach Year-round, Daily, In- MAKING CONNECTIONS: ART AND LIFE house programs run 9am-4pm, Mon-Fri Arvada Center for the Arts and Field Trip Humanities Grades: U, M, H arvadacenter.org Students explore Clyfford Still’s work by 720-898-7240 reviewing reproductions of archival materials [email protected] to build background knowledge about the . artist’s life. Students are asked to make connections between what they gleaned from his personal materials and his artwork, building metacognitive skills as they infer, guess, hypothesize, make leaps, and justify their interpretations. Students work in small groups of 5-7 in this art, literacy and humanities integrated lesson grounded in the workshop model. Cost: Free to all schools; bus funds may be available. Availability: Approx. 90 minutes Tues-Fri morning. 3 weeks advance scheduling requested. 30 student capacity unless special request. Clyfford Still Museum clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill 720-354-4877 ADAMS COUNTY [email protected] MUSEUM

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WORLD WAR II AND ABSTRACT WESTWARD TO COLORADO BUILDING COLORADO EXPRESSIONISM On-Campus Activity On-Campus Activity Field Trip Grades: U, M, H (Grades 4-12) Grades: U Grades: U, M, H Explore the influence of railroads on Engage fourth graders in economic concepts Students explore the realities of World War westward expansion during the 19th century through the fun lens of Colorado history. II to create context for the psychological turn and its impact on the history of the United Museum staff will come to your classroom to inward of Clyfford Still and other abstract States and Colorado. How were different present this 90-minute game-based lesson. expressionists. A group discussion allows cultures impacted? What are the economics Students will work in teams to weigh the students to look closely and discover of railroad building? How did railroads opportunity cost, incentives, and risks to the traits we consider to be abstract influence the settlement of people in the make the same choices that historic Colorado expressionist. A culminating activity asks West? Does it still impact our lives today? cities faced. It fulfills content standards for all students to be the curator and apply their This tour explores these questions and more social studies topics and challenges critical own interpretive thinking. Students work in as you tour the Museum’s grounds with a thinking skills. Additional lesson plans are small groups of 5-7 in this art, literacy and trained guide. included. humanities integrated lesson grounded in the Cost: $4 per child, one supervisor for Cost: $120 (discounts available for Title workshop model. every five children (under 12). Supervisors One and additional classes; mileage rate Cost: Free to all schools; bus funds may receive free Museum admission. applies) be available. Availability: By reservation Availability: Year-round Availability: Approx. 90 minutes Tues-Fri Colorado Railroad Museum Golden History Museums morning. 3 weeks advance scheduling ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org GoldenHistory.org/BuildingColorado requested. 30 student capacity unless 303-279-4581/800-365-6263 303-277-8717 special request. [email protected] [email protected] Clyfford Still Museum clyffordstillmuseum.org/instill HISTORICAL QUILT TRUNK SHOWS 720-354-4877 Classroom activity [email protected] Grades: U, M, H Quilts have been part of, and influenced by, American history since the Mayflower! RMQM trunk shows explore specific periods and the quilts that were made at the time. Topics include Crazy Quilts: The Victorians; The Sod House Experience (with presenter in period dress); Quilts and The Great Depression. Cost: $3 per student Availability: Year-round Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum rmqm.org 303-215-9001 [email protected] MIDDLE SCHOOL

GUIDED TOUR OF COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK SWALLOW HILL MUSIC Field Trip Grades: M, H Tour the SCFD’s only National Historic Landmark and learn about the national Chautauqua movement (c. 1874-1930), the founding of the Colorado Chautauqua and why it is nationally significant. Field trip – walking tour or presentation. Cost: Call for cost Availability: June-Sep CO Chautauqua Assoc. chautauqua.com 303-442-3282 [email protected]

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HOLOCAUST AWARENESS EDUCATION AT THE TABLE WITH DR. KING COUNTERTERRORISM EDUCATION On-Campus Activity or Field Trip On-Campus Activity LEARNING LAB (CELL) Grades M, H Grades: M, H Field Trip or On-Campus Assembly Educate students about the dangers of Empower students to confront hatred and Grades: M, H, Adaptable to grade hatred, bigotry and racism through the bigotry and learn lessons of equality and Educate students on the ongoing threat lessons of the Holocaust. Our Holocaust respect through the legacy of Martin Luther of terrorism by visiting the CELL exhibit, a education programs: 1) A Holocaust survivor King, Jr. At the Table with Dr. King is a dynamic, interactive experience. All of the will come to your school to meet and interact multifaceted live performance that teaches content in the exhibit was developed by with students. 2) Students will view short students about the American Civil Rights world-renowned counterterrorism experts. videos of Holocaust survivors, followed by movement and the life of Martin Luther King, Tours allow students to explore aspects of a discussion led by a Holocaust educator. Jr. At the Table also challenges students to civics, ethics, homeland security and media 3) Students will watch a film about the engage in acts of service and leadership literacy. The CELL also offers in-school Holocaust and participate in a post-film in their communities. Performed by presentations with subject matter experts in discussion. Please contact us for details. professionals from More than Music. various fields, such as international relations, Cost: Classroom (up to 40 students, 15 Cost: Please inquire public affairs and national security, giving student minimum) $10/student Scholarships available students in-depth exposure to today’s most Assembly (over 40 students) $350 plus $1/ Availability: Year-round relevant issues. student Mizel Museum Tour Cost: $4 per students, chaperones Scholarships available mizelmuseum.org free Availability: Year-round 303-749-5016 Scholarships and bus funding available Mizel Museum [email protected] Assembly cost: Please inquire mizelmuseum.org Availability: Year-round 303-749-5016 FINDING FREEDOM: A NEW LIFE IN Counterterrorism Education Learning [email protected] AMERICA Lab (CELL) On-Campus Activity or Field Trip CELL Guest Services Grades: M, H [email protected] Learn about the challenges of immigrating 303-844-4000 ext.5 TESORO CULTURAL CENTER to the U.S., the rewards this country has provided, and how we have benefitted from diverse immigrant cultures. In Finding Freedom, students will view a series of videos of individuals who have immigrated to America. A Mizel Museum educator will guide the discussion, focusing on who we are as Americans, what we represent, and how to best respect and embrace newcomers to our country. Cost: Classroom (up to 40 students, 15 student minimum) $10/student Assembly (over 40 students) $250 plus $1/ student Scholarships available Availability: Year-round Mizel Museum mizelmuseum.org 303-749-5016 [email protected]

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✓ Voters will be asked to renew the SCFD in 2016 to continue bringing arts, culture and science to all ages!

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Since 1988, voters have found value in the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). Each year, the district heps provide access to a rich tapestry of cultural offerings from intimate community productions to world- class exhibits, through a one penny on every $10 purchase you make in the seven-county metro area. This 27-year investment has created a vibrant cultural landscape, injecting billions of dollars into our economy.

Who benefits?

CITIZENS COMMUNITIES ECONOMIC IMPACT

MILLIONS SERVED MORE CHOICES More than 14.6 million citizens Citizens now have access to ECONOMIC DRIVER enjoy access to thriving cultural twice the number of organizations SCFD organizations generate organizations each year. present at SCFD’s founding $1.85 billion in annual economic activity FREE ACCESS MORE FREE DAYS More than 5.2 million people Free days and other special events CREATES JOBS annually experience cultural groups that allow greater access in all SCFD organizations provide 10,205 free of admission costs, thanks to seven counties jobs in our community SCFD MORE STUDENT ACCESS SPURS TOURISM FUTURE GENERATIONS 4.2 million students per year have SCFD organizations drive tourism Preservation of cultural collections, cultural experiences thanks to to Colorado facilities and heritage for future citizen support of SCFD generations The SCFD tax is up MOST ORGS ARE FUNDED MORE DIVERSITY 98 percent of small, locally-based for renewal by voters Diverse opportunities for cultural organizations requesting funding this fall. For more engagement in communities across receive it, creating innovation and the metro area enriched cultural experiences information on the SCFD, visit SCFD.org

The SCC The Scientific and Cultural Collaborative (SCC) is a non-profit partnership of cultural organization that are funded by the Scientific and creates and Cultural Facilities District. The SCC serves to unify our diverse partners by enhancing communication, building opportunities for collaboration distributes the and support, and with direct services to the public.

Directory for In addition to this annual Directory, other SCC endeavors include: Teachers, • The Alliance Project — a grant for public middle schools grades providing curriculum-based programs but what is • Educational Pathways — funding to help pay for programs and transportation for schools, scouts, senior citizen centers and other the SCC? non-profits. This Directory is made possible by the Scientific and Cultural Collaborative (SCC): a non-profit whose arts, culture and science members utilize funds from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). The SCC’s mission is to enhance scientific and cultural opportunities for the public through collaboration and synergy. The SCFD, a voter-approved tax district, provides funding to over 300 cultural organizations within seven counties in and around Denver. Voters will be asked to renew it in Nov. 2016 helping to continue these offerings.