Early Cultures
Agriculture
Make a chart identifying five cause and effects in the development of agriculture and how it led to the development of civilization.
Create a poster entitled “From Agriculture to Civilization.” On you poster show in detail 5 causes and their effects and illustrate them.
Think about what life might be like if agriculture had never been developed. How would life be different today? Write a science-fiction story about modern life without agriculture.
Art
Select a piece of art that you particularly like. Present you choice to the class or write a paragraph that tells how you think the art work reflects the environment it came from.
Create your own work of art. In considering what you will create, first consider the elements of your environment that you want to reflect--a representation of a scene of modern life, a modern landscape, an animal scene, or an expression of an idea, a feeling, or a reaction. Next choose a medium available to you--drawing, painting, carving, modeling clay, or computer. When you have created your work, present it to the class and discuss the ways it reflects the our environment.
Artifacts
Think of the artifacts archaeologists have found from life in the Old Stone Age. Next think of a personal time capsule to give archaeologists clues to you own life. What items would you include in your time capsule? List the items and give the reason for including each one.
Think about future archaeologists and historians finding remains of our society centuries from now. Choose four artifacts that might be discovered. Write reports as a historian might interpret them.
Border Cave
Picture life in Border Cave. What would they see? What would they smell? What might they hear?
Write a short poem to describe the experience.
Global Warming
What caused the global warming 12,000 years ago? With a team of three or four other students, investigate the warming that took place 12,000 years ago and the scientific reasons for it. Prepare a presentation of you findings for the class.
Lascaux: http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml/index3.html
"A visit to the cave"
Old Stone Age
As you think about people’s lives in the Old Stone Age, what do you think they can tell us about ourselves? Create a five page booklet that contains text, drawings, diagrams, and maps. It should be titled A Profile of Old Stone Age Life. You might make it a “day in the life of” type format. Helpful
hints: Paleolithic is another name for Old Stone Age; look in the encyclopedia under Stone Age, Old Stone Age, Paleolithic, caves, cave art, cave dwellers; look in the library subject catalog for similar entries.
Prehistoric Paintings
Find pictures of prehistoric paintings. Bring them to class and explain about them.
Stone Age Paintings
Use art materials to do your own “Stone-Age cave painting.”
Timeline
List the following dates in proper order on a timeline that reflects the amounts of time between them: A.D. 1850, 2000 B.C., A.D. 200, 1000 B.C., A.D. 1000, A.D. 2000.
Make a chart identifying five cause and effects in the development of agriculture and how it led to the development of civilization.
Create a poster entitled “From Agriculture to Civilization.” On you poster show in detail 5 causes and their effects and illustrate them.
Think about what life might be like if agriculture had never been developed. How would life be different today? Write a science-fiction story about modern life without agriculture.
Art
Select a piece of art that you particularly like. Present you choice to the class or write a paragraph that tells how you think the art work reflects the environment it came from.
Create your own work of art. In considering what you will create, first consider the elements of your environment that you want to reflect--a representation of a scene of modern life, a modern landscape, an animal scene, or an expression of an idea, a feeling, or a reaction. Next choose a medium available to you--drawing, painting, carving, modeling clay, or computer. When you have created your work, present it to the class and discuss the ways it reflects the our environment.
Artifacts
Think of the artifacts archaeologists have found from life in the Old Stone Age. Next think of a personal time capsule to give archaeologists clues to you own life. What items would you include in your time capsule? List the items and give the reason for including each one.
Think about future archaeologists and historians finding remains of our society centuries from now. Choose four artifacts that might be discovered. Write reports as a historian might interpret them.
Border Cave
Picture life in Border Cave. What would they see? What would they smell? What might they hear?
Write a short poem to describe the experience.
Global Warming
What caused the global warming 12,000 years ago? With a team of three or four other students, investigate the warming that took place 12,000 years ago and the scientific reasons for it. Prepare a presentation of you findings for the class.
Lascaux: http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml/index3.html
"A visit to the cave"
Old Stone Age
As you think about people’s lives in the Old Stone Age, what do you think they can tell us about ourselves? Create a five page booklet that contains text, drawings, diagrams, and maps. It should be titled A Profile of Old Stone Age Life. You might make it a “day in the life of” type format. Helpful
hints: Paleolithic is another name for Old Stone Age; look in the encyclopedia under Stone Age, Old Stone Age, Paleolithic, caves, cave art, cave dwellers; look in the library subject catalog for similar entries.
Prehistoric Paintings
Find pictures of prehistoric paintings. Bring them to class and explain about them.
Stone Age Paintings
Use art materials to do your own “Stone-Age cave painting.”
Timeline
List the following dates in proper order on a timeline that reflects the amounts of time between them: A.D. 1850, 2000 B.C., A.D. 200, 1000 B.C., A.D. 1000, A.D. 2000.