Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Cave Paintings

Here are the links to help you explore the cave paintings... Follow the directions below. Let me know if you have any questions.

Assignment 1:

Go to: http://www.historylink101.com/lessons/art_history_lessons/cave_art1.htm
Questions to Consider. (Answer the following on a separate sheet of paper.)
Facts:

1) What type of materials did early man use to paint on the walls of caves?
2) What colors were used the most in their cave art?
3) In what part of the world is most cave art found??

Explore:
4) Which was your favorite painting? Why?

5) Why do you think early man chose the subjects (i.e. the objects of the paintings) they did for their painting/drawings?

6) How realistic or abstract are the paintings of early man? What could this tell us about them?

Assignment 2:
Then go to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stoneage/toolkit.html and click on the image on the left side to launch the interactive tool kit.

Click on each tool to try and identify its use or purpose.

How well did you do?
Leave your comments on the blog below. (Don't use last names - first names and initial will do)

22 Comments:

Lex and Tori said...

Wow! We did so well! Thank you, Mr. Katz! ^_^ :)

Anonymous said...

The quiz/game was sooooo easy..We were finished in seconds.Then got EVERYTHING right. Heyyyyy!







ME & RD

Anonymous said...

I really liked it

Anonymous said...

Bailey O and Ashley H
We did super amazing and stuff. We got all of them right except one because the computer made a mistake.
Mr.Katz tried to block us from blogging and thats not cool? Were bloggers now and its in our blood. Thanks Mr. Katz your a really good World History teacher.(: sincerely, your amazing students.

Anonymous said...

Mr.Katz is the best teacher in the WORLD!!!!! =}

Anonymous said...

we think it was easy and fun

Anonymous said...

this quiz was easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we found the answers quickly yay ;DDDDD thanks mr katzz <333 ;D

Anonymous said...

It was so easy and the
eagles are going to lose

Anonymous said...

world history is the bees knees !

Anonymous said...

This group assignment was fun and educational. (mostly fun >:D)

Kristy&&johannah said...

We did great!=]

Anonymous said...

mr.katz rulez

Anonymous said...

OMG!! YOUR CLASS IS AWEEEEESOME!!!!! :) :D =]

















































YAY!! XD

Anonymous said...

Nica and
b-walt


this was fun and eductional and i love horseeeeeeeeeeeee's(nica) bye thanks Mr.
Katz for this funnnnessst i love u!(bwalt)

Anonymous said...

It Was Cool, i guess. a little to easy >:l

kiarra &* tony said...

we did realllllllly gooood pssssh were extra smaart (: thanks mr.katz p.s EAGLES SUCK !

Darth Vader said...

this was awesome

really cool, i now know how to make paint from chicken fat.

Anonymous said...

Hey this was ok lol thanks <3

hello mr... ! said...

hoolllaa kittkattz. you deleted our comment that was so not cool !@ wellll byyee. today was cool i guess

froom little chicken and jen-of-sky ! OUT !

Alexis G said...

I liked this. I got most of the questions right, but I missed like two because I never seen it before and I took a guess. But I learned something new (:

thanks mr. katz :D

It was fun!

Anonymous said...

hola senor baha mr.katz=]
haha your my faviorte teacher in the world

Anonymous said...

every internet site i go on it has the project listed there but in a different way!!! hahaha(Tori Farina)