1. Walk-In
Get 5 points! Take out notebook, folder, pencil box and agenda.
Put away backpack.
B’s, please get textbooks for your table.
Copy the question and answer in sentences:
What evidence do we have that early humans developed skills in using their hands? (Hint: Think of Stonehenge!)

2. Abilities of Early Humans
Early humans learned to:
Make tools out of stone.
Build large stone structures (like Stonehenge) using ropes, ramps and things to pull loads with.
Make weapons for protection.
Record their daily activities!

3. Give some evidence that the Lascaux cave painters were good at art.
Walk-In
Get 5 points! Take out notebook, folder, pencil box and agenda.
Put away backpack.
C’s, please get textbooks for your table.
Copy the question and answer in sentences:
Give some evidence that the Lascaux cave painters were good at art.

4. Possible Answers
They made paints and brushes out of things from nature.
They used shapes in the stone cave walls to give a 3D effect to their paintings.
They portrayed the animals accurately.

5. Walk-In
Get 5 points! Take out notebook, folder, pencil box and agenda.
Put away backpack.
C’s, please get textbooks for your table.
Copy the question and answer in sentences:
Draw a timeline and label these dates: 1 BC, 1 AD, 1000 BC, 1500 AD, BC, 2017 AD

6. Solar Eclipse on Monday!
Do NOT look directly at the sun on your way to exploratories or to lunch.
It is safe to go outside, but not to look at the sun.
Eclipse lasts from about 9:00 to 12:00.
If your family has religious or cultural concerns about where you are during the eclipse, have them contact Mrs. Ryan to let me know.

7. Homeroom Business Next Wed. is our first NO EXPLORATORY day!
You get 45 minutes for lunch that day!
There will be a homeroom competition as part of lunch that day, called PRIDE – IT’S A PUZZLE!
Need a HOMEROOM NAME FOR US!
Need 8 volunteers to participate on behalf of our homeroom – we’ll use LiveSchool to come up with random names!

8. The Lascaux cave paintings

9. Our Stereotype of Early Humans
We often see early humans (“cave people” depicted like this:
Is this a fair way to portray humans?

10. The Lascaux Cave Paintings
Read the text together on pages 6 – 7.
Watch this video clip about the paintings. (Discovery Education, The Subject of Cave Art – Animals).
Wonder about:/discuss with your group:
Why did prehistoric humans from more than 15,000 years ago draw and paint pictures in caves?!?

11. The Lascaux Cave Paintings
were created around 17,000BC to 12,000 BC!

12. The Lascaux Cave Paintings
They show early humans may have wanted to
Record their daily activities like hunting.
Keep track of how many animals they hunted.
Use their free time to be creative.
Learn to do fine-motor skills with their hands.

13. The Lascaux Cave Paintings
Paints were made from
Colorful rocks and minerals crushed and mixed with water
Roots, fruits and vegetables

14. The Lascaux Cave Paintings
Paints were mixed with
Animal blood or animal urine to make it last longer.
(Uggghhh!  )

15. Create a Cave Painting!
Using colors that could be obtained from roots, berries and other plants, create a cave painting that helps tell the story of the hunt, and other important events in the cave people’s lives.
On the back, pretend to be a cave person and write how you might have lived, and why you used art to record events from your life! (Refer to your notes from today!)
Picture is due at end of class or do as HW.

16. Timeline Quiz! Write your name, date and period # at the top.
Draw a timeline.
Mark on the following dates:
1 BC
1 AD
100 BC
100 AD
1000 AD
1000 BC
2017 AD