Education

The website Circoluza: The Wonderful World of Circus Arts is designed to provide children aged 6 to 12 and their parents and teachers with tools to discover the world of the circus arts in Canada and around the globe.

We offer a Teacher’s Guide to:

• Help you plan your use of the site
• Encourage exploring its content
• Apply what students learn from visiting the site

Teacher’s Guide

Contents of the Teacher’s Guide:

1. Introduction
2. How to use the site
3. Educational activities
   • Life as...: Circus artists in the past
   • The circus and emotions
   • Memory game
   • Developing a comedy routine with a prop
   • Circus terminology
   • Building a big top
   • Tutorials for various circus disciplines
4. Fact sheets
   • A short history of the circus arts
   • The history of circuses in Québec and across Canada
   • Circus disciplines
5. Glossary
6. Digging deeper
   • How do you become an acrobat?
   • Where can you see circus shows?
   • Links to additional resources

Download the full Teacher’s Guide