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Cave art: Discovering prehistoric humans through pictures

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=362

A lesson plan for Grade 2 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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National Endowment for the Humanities

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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 2

  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.01: Identify main purpose for an individual artwork.
    • Objective 5.02: Identify selected characteristics of art from a particular culture.
    • Objective 5.03: Identify selected medium/techniques or processes used for an individual artwork.
    • 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.
    • Objective 5.07: Discuss common themes such as families, community life, and beauty.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 2

  • Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
    • Objective 3.01: Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
    • Objective 3.02: Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama) to experience and knowledge.
    • Objective 3.03: Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).
    • Objective 3.04: Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).