SPELUNKING! Discovering Paleolithic Cave Art

A Virtual Tour of 

Lascaux, Altamira, and Chavet Caves
With hard hats and passports we traveled to France and Spain where we ventured into these dark and dangerous caves to examine our first form of communication from ancient man!

Experiential Archaeology:

Creating Our Own Paleo Art

Check it out!

Movie Suggestion: A unique visit to the Chauvet cave we have been studying!

Official Movie Trailer

Breaking News!

A Cave Full of Bones!
(This could change everything we THINK we know about early hominids!)

Check out this story at National Geographic.com.
Learn more at this site. What two big questions are being debated?

First Day of School Artifact Scavenger Hunt!

8th Grade Ancient History Scholars inspected the replica artifacts they found in the Ancient History Classroom.  They scouted around the room to find at least three items they recognized. Using their new technology, they used Google Images Search to explore the items they did not know about, but were curious about.  They then taught their classmates what they learned about the artifacts and the civilizations which created them. They also wrote about what this experience taught them about LEARNING.