OUR ANCESTORS: IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE WITHOUT SHOPS OR CIGARETTE LIGHTERS?

TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY OUR ANCESTORS: IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE WITHOUT SHOPS OR CIGARETTE LIGHTERS?

TIME 13TH of April 2007

DEPARTMENTS History and Pedagogy

PARTICIPANTS Students of first year of Secondary Education and Diversificación

OBJECTIVS To know the importance the feeding in the evolution of the humanity. To learn to make fire like the man of Altamira did it. To discover primitive techniques of hunting.


SÍNTHESIS OF THE ACTIVITY To visit the new cave of Altamira, and to make fire and hunt workshops. The students see some of the tools that were used for the hunting and later will practise with silhouettes.
They will receive some demonstration of how to obtain fire and its importance in transformation of foods, and the consequences that this has for the evolution of the human species. Later they will try to obtain fire by friction.

ASSESSMENT The activity has been valued very positively; the participation of the students has been total, implied in the process of E-A and with a good acquisition of knowledge. All the students have valued very positively this visit and recommend its continuity.


PROPOSITIONS OF CONTINUITY AND IMPROVEMENT It is considered advisable to continue making this activity during the next school years. There are no proposals of improvement.