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- 6th - 12th
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Students create mock fossil records based on current scientific theories about prehistory. By learning about what fossil records teach us about different prehistoric time periods, students gain a greater understanding of theories of prehistory in general. 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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- 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 »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students use balloons and worksheets to create a globe. They research the history of maps from prehistory to modern times and identify many of the misconceptions that mapmakers have held. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify how prehistoric Native American Cultures met their basic economic needs. They analyze the development of abstract thought in Early American cultures and identify the major time periods of the prehistory of Southwestern Wisconsin and Northeastern Iowa. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students analyze pictures of two artifacts to explore how these relics show evidence of human adaptation to the surrounding environment. This lesson from the Library of Congress concludes with a primary source web-search. Full Review »
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- 7th - 10th
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Students discuss the first people to live in North America and the types of evidence we have of their existence. They complete a set of worksheets and explore their answer in group discussions. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes eleven lessons from the American Literature, The Earliest Days: Prehistory to 1750 each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response activities are included for each lesson as well as extension and customization options. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students examine the role of anthropologists. In groups, they compare and contrast two different groups of civilizations. Using primary source documents, they discover how various cultures and ideas spread throughout the world. As a class, they also discuss how new research can change history. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students identify how geography and climate determine the lives of early hominids, the characteristics of hunter-gatherer societies, how animals affected the lives of early hominids, and how hominids overcame their physical environment. They identify the life of early hunter-gatherer societies was most influenced by their physical environment, and what distinguished Homo Sapiens from other hominids. Full Review »