Students at Enka Intermediate got in touch with their inner cavemen to become prehistoric paleolithic painters. With video of a fire playing and tables overturned to simulate their own caves, students used sticks and hands to paint like it's 10,000 B.C. Regulated to just the colors available at the time - red, brown, black and orange - students made their own cave painting masterpieces.
“Anytime you can take a story and make it real, students will take that and remember it,” said teacher Jenny West. “If they feel like they’re doing what people did back then, they can relate to what’s inside the history book.”
Once finished, students covered their hands in paint and placed them on the page - the equivalent at the time of a signature. In the hallway hung the finished pieces, as if the wall itself had gone back in time. Humanity’s earliest creative spark carries on today in the students, and through lessons like these they can relate with the faceless men and women of prehistory. At BCS, our teachers are always coming up with creative lessons that bring the pages of the history books alive.