Find a Cave

Students visit Lascaux Caves web site, view images of paintings and observe use of elements, principles, and components of art, reflect on purpose of paintings, and form cooperative clans and imitate these paintings using fire from...

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Students research cave environments and their uses and animals and humans. They connect the traits of cave-dwelling creatures to their cave environments. They then study early cave art and recreate crayon-resist cave scenes.

Students examine limestone cave geology and hydology. They study cave vocabulary.

Learners 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...

Students explore the cave described in Mark Twain's famous novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. They read a passage from the book and explore how the cave has been used throughout history.

Students explore cave art. In this Neolithic Age lesson, students get into groups and research a given topic. Students create a poster with information and visual aids. Students then look a pictures and watch a DVD about artifacts found...

Students share their knowledge of creatures that live in caves, then read a news article about new cave animals that have been found in California. For this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a discussion and...

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.

Students create cave drawings of their own after viewing ancient neolithic cave paintings. In this cave drawings lesson plan, students use chalk and construction paper.