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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 - 3rd
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Students color images of water sculping caves and discuss cave formation. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate the cave paintings of France. They explore various websites, recite and discuss french vocabulary terms, create a painted cave wall, and view and discuss images of French cave paintings. 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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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students research the sources of prehistoric cave paintings and engage in an activity of creating their own cave art. The lesson focuses on the design, composition style of the art, and importance of cultural contributions cave painting had in early history. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explain the purpose of cave paintings and rock art, identify some of the animals that roamed France in prehistoric times, appreciate the methods used by ancient civilization to create cave and rock art, and use appropriate French words related to cave exploration. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students explore the importance of cave paintings as the first examples of visual art in the Western Hemisphere. They compare examples of cave art to modern art pieces, discuss the lives of cave painters, create their own animal drawing in the cave painting style and write a story about cave art in this seven part mini-unit. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the unique and diverse historical artifacts that people have designed to fulfill their everyday needs in extraordinary ways. They examine photographs of a cave dwelling and a modern building. They discuss ways the structures provide for the basic need for shelter. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students examine the unique and diverse historical artifacts that people have designed to fulfill their everyday needs in extraordinary ways. They identify ways humans have used design throughout history to enhance the ways they meet their basic needs. Students analyze why people have a need to design new objects and new technologies to meet their basic needs. Full Review »
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- 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 »

