Lessons on Earlier Times

A mysterious package has arrived that will send your students off on a grand adventure. Students practice their cartography and journaling skills, find their own fossilized dinosaur embryo,make a special storage box to keep it safe as they travel, uncover the secrets of rocks, and discover a 112 mile wide clue in the Curious Case of the Disappearing Dinosaur as they follow in the footsteps of other paleontologists.

Humans make art. Sometimes we put it on a wall, other times we put it in a museum, and occasionally we put it in a cave where it stays lost for thousands of years until someone falls down a hole and discovers it. In this lesson students act as modern explorers and archeologists as they journey through the lost caves of Lauscaux and interpret the meaning behind the beasts on the walls. Then as paleolithic painters themselves they create their own cave art and tell the story of its creation and discovery.