First Week of Classes: Pre-History

This week was my first week of Winter '09 classes. We learned about Pre-History. This time in the Earth's history is before there were any written forms of communication. There were no alphabets or consistent use of symbols to create a written documentation of events. All we have to go by are the drawings left behind by the people of that era. To this day, cave drawings are still being discovered and interpreted. We also learned, that the most likely purpose for these drawings were as instructions and/or warnings. This was the earth's inhabitants only form of communication.

So, for our activity, we learned how to age paper using coffee, tea bags and heat. We then practiced what we learned and tried to emulate cave drawings. We also recognized that most cave drawings are very simplistic with little to no detail. They also contain a very muted color palette.

Below is a sampling of my student's work!