Let’s Go Spelunking! Okay, so for this project I did a whole
classroom transformation so the students really got the feeling they were
inside a cave. This was a lot of work, but completely worth it because the
students LOVED IT! For this unit, each grade level is learning about the famous
Lascaux Cave in Southern France. If you don’t know, this cave contains some of
the first drawings man has ever created…!!!WOW!!! I know right? I used a lot of
the LARGE colored paper to cover my walls, desks, chairs and ceiling to give it
that cave effect. I then found a YouTube video (which I will post below) of a
cave that was reordered for 12 hours. It gives you the creep water dripping
noises and the lighting is FANTASTIC! I went to a Halloween store and bought an
awesome fake fire torch to use as a camp fire in the middle of the room. The
kids had to enter the “cave” by going under a table that I had designed to look
like a cave. All of the windows and doors where blacked out. I had the fire
going, the projector, and a couple of lanterns. We all had to sit around the
fire.
So for each grade level we talked about cavemen and what
their lives had to be like in order to survive. We talked about caves and how
they are created, and then we got to the cave drawings. We talked a lot about
what they used to create the drawings, where the drawings where in the cave,
and what they drew about. After this we got a flash light and looked at some of
the “cave drawings” I had done on large paper that I hung from the ceiling. We
all looked up at the cave drawings and discussed what animals they saw and what
the people were doing on the cave walls.
We then took a virtual tour of the actual Lascaux Cave in
France (I will post the link below). For the 5th and 4th
graders I had a worksheet that they filled out along with the tour which I will
share as well. The younger kids talked about what they saw in the cave the
colors the cave people used. For k-3rd grade we read the book “The
First Drawing” by Mordicai Gerstein. Each class got to draw (in chalk) on the
cave walls in the classroom. They had to draw like cave people, so no hearts or
rainbows here.
Lascaux Virtual Tour:
Each grade level had a different project for this unit that
still connected with their standards for art. When they finish their projects I
will add more pictures but for now I will add my examples that I did to show
them what they would be doing.
K- Drew pictures of animals and people, cut them out, and
then pasted them onto a brown piece of construction paper. Then they crumbled
up the paper to make it look like a piece of rock.
1st- Pinch pot caves. They began with a normal
pinch pot and then cut out their entrance to the cave in the side of the pot.
They added cave drawings, texture, and then glazed them with the colors of the
cave.
2nd- Cave slabs. Second grade made a slab out of
cave then carved (sunken relief) pictures of cave animals, arrows, and people
into the slab. They then made the edging of their slab really jagged and ruff
to resemble a cave. We glazed the piece of slab with cave colors.
3rd- Cave Stories. The student wrote a story
about their life as cave people. They told a short story, wrote the story on a
brown piece of paper and then tour it and crumpled it up to make it look old.
They then took a large piece of paper (2ft long) and illustrated their stories
using oil pastels. They had to make it look like cave people drew it.
4th- Woven CD’s- students wove using a CD as
their frame work.
5th- Woven blankets. The students wove blankets
by using a cardboard frame I made.
Animal Coloring Sheet 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8P4IPUdQnrkdEw3eC1kOUhmOUU/view?usp=sharing
Movie Questions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8P4IPUdQnrkdzBhSThfSU5UYms/view?usp=sharing
PowerPoint: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8P4IPUdQnrkeENGcnZCOU40Qkk/view?usp=sharing
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