This document provides information about Circus World and directs students to take a virtual tour and answer questions. It includes links to explore Circus World's interactive map, watch circus videos on PBS, and learn how to draw circus animals and make clown faces. Students are asked to write answers to questions about Circus World and the Ringling Bros Circus in their notebooks.

1. Discover the Circus
http://www.wpclipart.com/recreation/entertainment/circus/circus.png.html

2. Click this link and take a virtual tour of Circus
World.
In your notebook answer questions on next page.
Circus World

3. Use the interactive map to answer these
questions.
 ANIMALS  HIPPODROME
 What could you  Who is the youngest
see this summer member of the cast?
at Circus World
that you couldn't
Which act is she in?
see anywhere
else?
 MAGIC THEATRE  CIRCUS WAGONS
 What trick does the  Which children's book
magician do that Harry character float is being
Houdini did? restored?

4. Click this link and explore to find answers to the
questions on the next page. Write answers in your
notebook.
http://www.ringling.com

5. Write answers in your notebook.
 Who is Gunther Gebel-Williams?
 Emmett Kelly was a mascot for which sports
Team?
 Which Wisconsin town are the Ringling Bros.
from?
 How many railroad cars did this circus use?
 What subspecies of tigers are used at this
circus?
 What color are Friesian horses?
 Are Asian or African elephants used at this
circus?

6. Use Tux Paint to draw a circus
animal.
Learn how here.

7. Watch videos about the Circus at
PBS
http://www.pbs.org/opb/circus/

8. Learn how to make a clown face
from a real circus clown!
http://www.pbs.org/opb/circus/classroom/diy-circus/clown-face/

9. Try this at home!
http://melaniescorner.com/2010/02/09/circus-poster-create-your-own-edible-characters/

10. Bibliography
 Circus Diorama and Circus Puppet Theater. (n.d.). Craft. doi: First Palette
 Interactive Map - Circus World. (n.d.). Circus World. Retrieved April 13,
2013, from
http://circusworld.wisconsinhistory.org/Explore/ExploreMap.aspx
 Sherman, P. (n.d.). Circus - Public Domain Clip Art. Circus - Public
Domain Clip Art. Retrieved April 13, 2012, from
http://www.wpclipart.com/recreation/entertainment/circus/circus.png.html
 Circus. (n.d.). PBS. Retrieved April 13, 2013, from
http://www.pbs.org/opb/circus/
 How to Draw Circus. (n.d.). : 9 Pictures and Drawings to Print out.
Retrieved April 13, 2013, from
http://www.hellokids.com/r_579/activities/how-to-draw-step-by-step-
drawing-tutorials/circus-drawings-step-by-step-drawing-lessons/
 Nelson, M. (n.d.). Circus Poster: Create your Own Edible Characters.
Melanie's Corner. Retrieved April 13, 2013, from
http://melaniescorner.com/2010/02/09/circus-poster-create-your-own-
edible-characters/
 Welcome to Ringling Bros. Circus! (2013). Welcome to Ringling Bros.
Circus! Retrieved April 13, from http://www.ringling.com/