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.

Here is a great way to incorporate art into your next unit on prehistoric people. The class makes stones out of ceramic clay and then creates paintings like those found in the Lascaux Caves in France. A video link, full day-by-day...

Learners research the sources of prehistoric cave paintings and engage in an activity of creating their own cave art. The lesson focuses on the design, composition style of the art, and importance of cultural contributions cave painting...

In this scale drawing activity, students use a map of Mount Rushmore and surrounding areas to solve 4 problems. Houghton Mifflin test is referenced.

Students read and discuss Tom Sawyer's cave adventure. In this realistic writing lesson, students create original stories of their cave adventure which must include 2 landforms, 2 animals and 2 characteristics of caves. Students compare...

Students discuss caves. In this science lesson, students experiment with how dissolution, a chemical weathering process, leads to the formation of caves. Once the cave is finsihed students draw a picture or describe in writing what it...

What would you say if someone told you that your dreams and goals are merely phantoms in your own mind? A video analysis of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic takes high schoolers through the famous metaphor, which likens...

Students are shown a clip of cave art scene from the animated Disney movie "Ice Age" to capture their attention. They talk about how art was used as a means of communication and record keeping and create their own cave drawings.

In this problem solving worksheet, students draw a diagram that would help solve each of 5 story problems about a cave exploration.

Young scholars examine limestone cave geology and hydology. They study cave vocabulary.

Students locate their own communites and the nearest caves on a United States map. They calculate the distance to the nearest cave using rough scale.

Fourth graders research the rock art caves that are found in Texas. For this rock art lesson, 4th graders use assigned web sites to find information about the rock art that is found in caves in Texas. They work in small groups to make a...

Third graders investigate caves. In this erosion lesson, 3rd graders develop new vocabulary, write a report about caves and illustrate their knowledge of caves. Students create models of caves and record their observations.

Students examine various types of prehistoric art. In groups, they research the purpose of the drawings and use the internet to research the various ancient human groups. To end the lesson, they draw animals compared to the prehistoric...

Students are introduced to prehistoric paintings with the cave art at Lascaux and Altamira. They, in groups, role-play the members of a clan and design appropriate cave paintings for their group.

Students investigate people of the Stone Age. They explore the life of a stone age Homo Sapien. Students create a work of art, drawing in the style of the cave paintings found in Lascaux, France.

Second graders share stories with cave art. In this cave art lesson, 2nd graders use a brown paper bag and oil pastels to create their own cave painting. They write a story explaining what is occurring in the painting. 

Fourth graders create cave paintings to leave behind a message for the future civilizations about how they live today.

Annotations on a copy of excerpts from Plato’s allegorical dialogue, “The Cave” are used to focus attention on specific passages in the dialogue. Readers are ask to draw the cave as it is described, to recount what happens to the...

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 research ancient cave art in France via the internet. They apply the skills and information by creating their own cave art.

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, students discover that pictures are more than pretty colors.

Middle schoolers simulate online the formation of Ape Cave, in order to better explain its construction. They observe, illustrate and discuss geological features of this lava tube.