Exploring Rock Art: A North American Field Trip; Chinese Shadow Puppet Theater; and Mexico's Day of the Dead. . - A-V/Visual/CD-ROM - audio-visual review

Arts & Activities, Jan, 2002 by Barbara Herberholz

EXPLORING ROCK ART: A North American Field Trip; CHINESE SHADOW PUPPET THEATER; and MEXICO'S DAY OF THE DEAD. Three CD-ROMs (Mac/ Win)/$29.95 each. Level: Elementary and Middle School. Pentewa Interactive, Inc., 833 33rd Ave., South Seattle, WA 98144, (888) 818-5164, www.MulticulturalArts.com.

For integrating art in a school's curriculum, these three interactive CD-ROMs would be helpful, informative and easy to use. Each program explores the arts and crafts, music, language arts and history of a particular culture. Mexico's Day of the Dead is a bilingual program in which children visit folk artists in the marketplace; take an interactive tour of a Mexican village; create masks, puppets, pop-up coffins and skeleton miniatures; visit a Mexican home and help prepare for the holiday; create different crafts; and, finally, present a Day of the Dead Celebration.

Chinese Shadow Puppet Theater invites children to see a puppet play and visit the world of Asian shadow puppets. They can design puppets, print out templates and assemble their own cast before creating a stage set, printing out scenery elements and presenting an original play.

In Exploring Rock Art, students may photograph and record their own discoveries; create petroglyphs, pictographs, books and murals; develop a rock art museum exhibit; and research rock art with direct links to the World Wide Web.--B.H. For information about this program, circle No. 392 on the Reader Service Card.

A-V/VISUAL/CD-ROM: Barbara Herberhoh

BOOK: Jerome J. Hausman