WELCOME TO A&E'S THE LOST WORLD
ART POSTER CONTEST AND TEACHER GUIDE
CLICK HERE for Official Poster Contest Rules

On Sunday, October 6th and Monday, October 7th, at 8 pm ET, A&E will present the Original Movie, The Lost World, based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ground-breaking science fiction novel from 1912.

The Lost World presents a unique opportunity to unite disciplines in a high school's curriculum that often are separated by an enormous gulf: the arts and the sciences. A&E is sponsoring a poster contest for high school students to encourage creativity and the study of graphic design. Plus, we've put together a teaching guide for science classes with discussion questions, research assignments, vocabulary, and recommended web sites. Even history teachers can get involved, because the development of evolutionary theory had a significant impact on American social history.

You can find more resources and information about The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, science projects, and dinosaurs on our web site at AandE.com.

THE LOST WORLD POSTER CONTEST
Students can showcase their artistic abilities for the chance to win an adventure of their own:
Grand Prize (1): - A trip to a dinosaur dig, a $1,000 scholarship, and a $1,000 grant to the winner's school to enrich the art department.
First Prize (2): - A Lost World Adventure Gift Pack
(See Official Rules for Prize details)

Television and movie companies often create posters to promote an upcoming feature. This is your students' chance to show off their talent and ability to get a message across to an audience. Each student is allowed one entry. She or he should consider the use of color and technique in commercial design. The posters should attract attention while incorporating artistic merit and creativity. Students (grades 9 through 12) will create posters depicting scenes, characters, or locations from the A&E Original Movie, or from the story, The Lost World. Each poster should include the title "The Lost World" and the name "A&E" on the front of the poster. The posters may include tune- in information as well.

Any subject matter from the movie may be used as a theme or topic. All posters must be two-dimensional (flat) and any of the following media may be used: oils, watercolors, pastels, markers, collages, crayons, pen and ink, colored pencils, or any other flat technique or medium. The maximum size of the poster is 20"X30".

• All entries must be postmarked by 11/8/02 and received no later than 11/15/02.
• All entries must be clearly labeled on the back with student's name, student's address, student's home phone number, school name, school address, school phone number, and teacher's name.
• All entries must be an original work of the student.

IMPORTANT!! Please see the Official Rules for more information and other requirements.

We hope that The Lost World Poster Contest will be a thought-provoking and creative learning experience for you and your students.

Tune in on Sunday October 6, 2002 at 8pm/7C.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born to an Irish Catholic family in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1859 and was educated by Jesuits in England and Austria. Although he realized his literary talents at an early age, he received a degree in medicine in 1881 from the University of Edinburgh. Shortly after he accepted a post as the surgeon aboard a Greenland bound whaling ship. This and his later experience during the Boer War gave him inspiration for many of his writings. He is best known as the creator of the world-renowned detective, Sherlock Holmes, but he had a wealth of other literary accomplishments. The character Professor Challenger, who appears in the novels The Lost World (1912) and The Poison Belt (1913) was considered a remarkable literary achievement by contemporary critics. The Lost World was the first novel to include dinosaurs. It inspired many later science fiction works, including Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. Conan Doyle spent his later years promoting Spiritualism, a belief in life after death and communication with spirits. He died at his home in Crowborough, England in 1930.

ABOUT THE MOVIE
The Lost World combines an adventure story with a romantic sub plot and a sub-textual debate on evolution. It features an assortment of characters - including scientists, missionaries, and an journalist - who take off on an expedition to the mysterious Lost World, a plateau in the Amazon rainforest. This hidden habitat, where the laws of nature have been suspended, escaped the effects of the K-T mass extinction that eliminated all dinosaurs 65 million years ago. In addition to several dinosaur species that somehow escaped extinction, a tribe of native Indians and a population of savage ape-men inhabit the plateau and compete for survival.

Curriculum Links
The Lost World is suitable for middle and high school students in science, social studies, media literacy, studio art, and literature classes.

National Standards: Science and Art
The teacher's guide for The Lost World fulfills the following National Science Education Standards for grades 5-12: Life Science (Diversity and Adaptations of Organisms, Science as Human Endeavor, Biological Evolution, Behavior of Organisms, and Historical Perspectives).

The Lost World poster contest fulfills National Art Standards for grades 9 through 12, according to McRel's Content Knowledge : Compendium of Standards, Levels 1 (Understands and applies media techniques and processes related to the visual arts) and 2 (Understands how the characteristics and structures of art are used to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other artistic intentions).