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- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to prehistoric paintings with the cave art at Lascaux and Altamira. They, in groups, role-play the members of a clan and design appropriate cave paintings for their group. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students, in groups, create an art history timeline. They design collages to represent different periods of art throughout history and recreate pieces from each era. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students use the internet to gather information about animals. They explain the difference between different classifications of animals and characteristics of different animals. They examine the animals feeding habits and their body structure. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students attempt to use prehistoric pottery making techniques to make a piece of pottery. They work in groups to decorate their examples. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students brainstorm a list of nocturnal and diurnal wild animals they see in their community and discuss how the animals would be different if they were living during the Ice Age. Using a handout, they discover how archeologists record their site findings and identify the zones used by them. They use the internet to search a Kincaid Shelter and use the animals they find there to solve a puzzle. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine the role of mythology in their own lives. After reading stories, they discover the various theories on the origins of the universe and compare the symbols used by different cultures. To end the lesson, they research a real event and identify and discuss the mythical representations of the event. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore dinosaurs that lived on earth millions of years ago. They analyze their many different characteristics. Students experience the different types of dinosaurs, the information they left behind, and their habitats. Students investigate how animals become extinct and compare dinosaurs to animals living today. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students assess the development of animal husbandry, outline it in detail as well as arrange the steps in sequential order. In addition, they discuss how certain animals came to be domesticated, concentrate to research on one of the domesticated animals, and locate on a world map where the animals originated from. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students examine how organisms adapt to their environment in order to survive. As a class, they discuss the extinction of the dinosaurs and review Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. They select an animal to morph in the future and create what it would look like using software. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students research and analyze the origins of the figurehead and other forms of ornament that lie in the history of prehistoric times. They locate artistic examples of the past that former explorers visualized at the head of their vessels. An outline of all the different types are shared by each team with other teams to observe and discuss. Full Review »
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