NORWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Technology-Enhanced Learning Activity Summary

The students will make a cave that was the home of Cro-Magnon. They will learn how Cro-Magnon got their food, shelter, and clothing. The students will also learn the tools, language, rituals, and other activities of this early man. Students will visit sites on the Internet to see actual cave paintings and artifacts. Students will be able to see the actual cave paintings from places like Lascaux, Altamira. They will also see actual artifacts of Cro-Magnon man. The students will make a cave from the small back room of the library. The walls will be covered with drawings made by each student. Artifacts will be found around the cave. The students will complete an "artists card" for each artifact they make. The students will have made these in cooperative groups. The 6th grade teachers will divide a;; the 6th grade students into cooperative groups and assigned each group to a classroom. These groups will work on the artifacts. When the students are finished they will make the cave. All classes in the school will visit by crawling into the dark room and getting a tour by the sixth grade students.

  6.0 Web and Online Research Skills

6.05

Learning Standard 3: Research, Evidence, and Point of View. Students will acquire the ability to frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research; to collect, evaluate, and employ information from primary and secondary sources, and to apply it in oral and written presentations. They will understand the many kinds and uses of evidence; and by comparing competing historical narratives, they will differentiate historical facts from historical interpretation and from fiction. Students understand ways of finding and testing evidence from societies leaving no written records.)

Web sites:

http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/AncientCiv/caveart/caveart.html

http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/AncientCiv/caveart/first.html

http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/AncientCiv/caveart/second.html

http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/indexlife.html

http://thunder.indstate.edu/~ramanank/index.html    (neanderthal)

http://socialstudies.com/c/@45F61LAHk9cRs/Pages/article.html?article@FG204A+af@donn

(how to cave paint)

The sixth grade has done this activity as an Egyptian tomb so manipulation of 175 kids is not too daunting. The main problem will be scheduling the computer lab so all students will be able to tour the web sites.

 Janet Eskin 4/06

www.awesomeclipartforeducators.com