Cave art: Discovering prehistoric humans through pictures
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=362
A lesson plan for grades K–2 Visual Arts Education
In this lesson on the EDSITEment website, students travel to the past to 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 a way of communicating beliefs and ideas. From this page, teachers can access all the materials needed to complete this lesson.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Visual Arts Education (2001)
Grade 1
- Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
- Objective 5.01: Recognize that art from other times and cultures does not look the same.
Grade 2
- Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
- Objective 5.04: Become aware of the ideas of time and history (what came before and after).
- Objective 5.05: Begin to realize that there have been diverse cultures in the world and each culture has produced art.
- Objective 5.06: Recognize selected works of art from various cultures.
Kindergarten
- Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
- Objective 5.01: Recognize that people in many times and places have made art.
- Objective 5.05: Recognize that human beings create art to tell a story about their ideas and lives without words.
