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- Grade Range
- 2nd - 12th
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Students explore animals, the art of photography and how to make false photos. Groups of students read Enquirer-type articles and make a class report based on what they find in the article. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas. By studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France, students discover that pictures are more than pretty colors. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students become experimental archaeologists using three methods of pottery making before the invention of the pottery wheel. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas by studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France. Three lessons on one page. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students examine fossils at a musuem site. They observe and record their findings and discuss when they get back to class. They practice dating the fossils based on their findings. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students pretend they travel to the past to explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas. They study the paintings in caves found in France as a frame of reference. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students develop a hypothesis for the survival of living fossils such as coelacanths and horseshoe crabs. They discuss theories for the extinction of dinosaurs then research one of the living fossils in detail to evaluate their own hypothesis. There is a Discovery Channel companion video for this lesson. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students determine characteristics that are common to predators and scavengers using pictures of dinosaurs for models. In small groups they discuss the differences between meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs then answer a series of questions to contrast predators and scavengers. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students view teacher-created PowerPoint presentation, practice drawing four prehistoric animals, choose one of those four to draw larger on brown construction paper, draw background including hands, leaves, arrows, shapes, and lines, color in earth tones, and add texture using black chalk. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students are engaged in a study of dinosaurs while focusing upon the scientific facts that are known today. They differentiate between real evidence and conjecture taken from it. Students view samples of fossils and then create their own. Full Review »
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