World History
Lascaux Cave
Here is another example of a virtual tour, this one to Lascaux, France where you can look at their infamous cave paintings - which are no longer open to the public (thankfully my parents dragged me there in high school).
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Virtual Field Trips
I have done some work recently with SmarterSchools.comhttp://smarterschoolsproject.com/ and their contact recently asked me if I had done any virtual field trips with my students. Well yes. If you Google them, you can find lots of them. For...
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Cave Art
This is a very interesting article that you might add to when you talk about cave art at the beginning of your World History I course. What is most interesting is that it is about cave art found in Indonesia that is at least 39,000 years old and...
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Lascaux Cave In 3d
When we received our e-books this summer, I was glad to see that it included a link to the Lascaux cave website. It literally blows the kids away when they see the pictures. The video is done so well that if you are using a LCD, it will seem...
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Chauvet Cave Drawings
If you follow this blog, you know we've done a number of entries on cave dwellings this year. As a high schooler, I was lucky enough to see the now closed Lascaux cave paintings. Yesterday I saw the new movie "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." It is...
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The Lascaux Cave
The French Government has sponsored a phenomenal website which gives users a virtual tour of the Lascaux cave, including descriptions of each drawing, its importance and meaning, as well as individual breakdowns of specific parts of each drawing. A really...
World History