Create Some Ancient Art - BBC
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/ancients_art.pdf Added: 03 Jun 2014 Contributor: Scoilnet Resource type:Classroom activities and ideas to - tell a story without words; carving or painting your own cave painting. Clear step-by-step guide for each activity
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Strand: Early People /Ancient Societies
Strand unit: Stone Age Peoples
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become familiar with aspects of the lives of these peoples
- examine and become familiar with evidence we have which tells us about these people, especially evidence of these people which may be found locally
Suggestions for use: Good for station teaching.
Strand: Early People /Ancient Societies
Strand unit: Stone Age Peoples
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become familiar with some aspects of the lives of these peoples
- examine critically, and become familiar with, evidence we have which tells us about these people, especially evidence of these people which may be found locally and in Ireland, where appropriate
Suggestions for use: Useful for station teaching.
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- discover pattern and rhythm in natural and manufactured objects and use them purposefully in his/her work
- express his/her imaginative life and interpret imaginative themes using colour expressively
- paint from observation
Suggestions for use: good for station teaching.
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Painting
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- explore colour with a variety of colour drawing instruments, media and techniques
- make paintings based on recalled feelings and experiences and discover ways of achieving spatial effects
- paint from observation
Suggestions for use: good for station teaching.
Build A Stone Circle
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/history/handsonhistory/ancients_circle.pdf Added: 03 Jun 2014 Contributor: Scoilnet Resource type: Lesson PlanLesson activity that gets children to build their own version of Stonehenge out of modelling clay.
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- 3-4
- Visual Arts
Strand: Clay
Strand unit: Developing Form in Clay
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- develop line, shape, texture and pattern in clay
- explore and discover the possibilities of clay as a medium for imaginative expression
- make sturdy figures in clay using the medium expressively and with imaginative detail
- work inventively and expressively with cubes or oblong blocks of clay
Suggestions for use: Perfect for combining with a History class on Early Peoples.
