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Search for the Lost Cave People
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Ideas from Teachers
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(Gr. 3-8)
This activity could be used with NOVA's "Search for the Lost Cave People"
program. We've done this for a couple of years. We do a simulated dig site, based on the work that Mark Lehner did at Giza excavating the bakeries. After we've excavated the site and analyzed the findings, we try to bake bread over an open fire using flower pots to substitute for the ancient egyptian bread pots. Sent in by
Sam Hamlin
Shore Country Day School
Beverly, MA 
(Gr. 6-8)
I am teaching an Ancient Cultures of Mesoamerica course for 6th through 8th grade students in Long Beach, California. I used NOVA's "Search for the Lost Cave People"
program to give them a first-hand account of an archeological discovery. I developed media guides with an evidence bank included where the students kept a record of all the physical evidence found in the caves. I also included short answer questions to help them remember the sequencing of events and the amount of caves etc. that the archeologists were investigating. During the investigations, I would stop the tape and give them a chance to voice their ideas about what was going on, discuss the topography of the region, and share any insight or theories they might have been developing in their minds. The students loved the program, and the opportunity to get into the field with the scientists and see these discoveries with new eyes. We have been studying the Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, through their art. The Zoque and the mysteries of the Rio La Venta have really got them going. Sent in by
Donna Bergeron-Birge
Cubberley K-8
Long Beach, CA
(Gr. 9-12)
This is an activity that could be used with NOVA's "Search for the Lost Cave People"
program. Compare/contrast the Zoque with the Mayan culture. All we seem to hear/know is about the Aztec/Mayan cultures. I leave in April 1998 for the Yucatan with 16 teen-agers on a 4-day homestay and thenoff to Isla Mujeres. I think this will provoke critical thinking and questions about the origin of Mesoamerican cultures. I did the Manu Rain Forest last semester—absolutely the quietest day of the year. We then accessed NOVA Online's "Search for Lost Cave People"
Web site for follow up. They loved the online quiz. Sent in by
Mary Heil-Allen
Sturgeon Bay High School
Sturgeon Bay, WI
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