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Get 5 points! Take out notebook, folder, pencil box.
Put away backpack.
 B’s, please get textbooks for your table.
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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!)
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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!
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We often see early humans (“cave people”
depicted like this:
Is this a fair way to portray humans?
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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?!?
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The Lascaux Cave Paintings were created
around 17,000BC to 12,000 BC!
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.
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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.