Grade 3
Rock Art of the Southwest

Guiding Questions:
What are: Petroglyphs and Pictographs?
How were they made and why?

Where do we see these ancient images?

How are they used today? By Indians? By non-Indians?

What is intellectual/cultural property?

What is your opinion of using these ancient symbols today?

Goals:
Learn basics of
Rock Art
How traditions change and grow
Intellectual/Cultural property

Demonstrate you know what rock art is, and that you can read some of the more common petroglyphs and pictographs.

Explore a variety of petroglyphs and pictographs in rock, art, pottery, jewelry.

Be neat and organized

Projects:
Make a drawing in Sharpie of petroglyphs and pictographs you see and like while viewing the video “If Rocks Could Talk.”
Draw one or more of the petroglyphs and pictographs, draw it/them with pencil and color with craypas, then watercolor over it to make a relief painting.

Related:
“Mayan Life” in National Geographic Kids (h.w. assigned by homeroom teachers)
Mayan glyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs