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Teach Through Educational Travel: Cave Paintings in Lascaux, France

Jan 26

Written by: Amy
Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:04 PM

Teach Through Educational Travel: Lascaux cave paintings, Dordogne, France

Cave painting depicted on the walls of Lascaux in southwestern France

Download this image of a cave painting at Lascaux. Show the image to your students in class and prompt them with the following discussion questions:

What is depicted in the photo?
Where is this photo is from?
What is the medium the image is drawn on?
How old is the image?

Provide your students an overview of Lascaux:
In the Dordogne region of southwest France, lie the caves of Lascaux. The caves are famous for their numerous, complex, Paleolithic paintings, (like the one above) believed to be up to 20,000 years old. The paintings are primarily of large animals that were once native to the region, and also include human images and symbols as well. The caves were discovered by teenagers in 1940.

Take a virtual tour of Lascaux with your class and explore its various areas. Click "A visit to the cave" to begin.

• Ask students to draw their own interpretations of a cave painting and explain with it represents.

• If you were to leave a message about life today for future generations, what would you draw?

Want more? See last week's Teach Through Educational Travel: Why Windmills? Part: 3

We'd love to hear your ideas! If you've done a lesson on cave paintings in Lascaux or elsewhere around the world, let us know in the comments section! You could be our next guest blogger!

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