pREHISTORY

Bible: Study Creation to Tower of Babel

Reading List:

The Dreamer by Cynthia Rylant (elementary) - Vocabulary, Essays, and Tests

What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? by John Morris and Ken Ham - Vocabulary, Essays, and Tests

Life in the Great Ice Age by Michael and Beverly Oard - Vocabulary, Essays, and Tests

Noah's Ark and the Ararat Adventure by John D. Morris - Vocabulary, Essays, and Tests

Adam and His Kin by Ruth Beechick - Vocabulary, Essays, and Tests

Resource List:

Abeka History Texts

The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun

The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

Holman Book of Biblical Charts, Maps, and Reconstructions

Holman Bible Atlas

Encylopedia of the Bible by John Drane

Heart of Wisdom Adam

Genesis, Finding Our Roots by Ruth Beechick

OVCEA's Dinosaur Color Book and Creation Facts

Dinosaurs by Design by Duane T. Gish

God Created the Dinosaurs of the World by Earl and Bonita Snellenberger

Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation Volume 1 by Dennis R. Petersen

It Couldn't Just Happen by Lawrence O. Richards

Did Adam Have a Bellybutton? By Ken Ham

Dinosaur Embryos by Luis Chiappe, National Geographic Dec 1998

A Dinosaur Named Sue by Donovan Webster, National Geographic June 1999

Super Croc by Paul Sereno, National Geographic Dec 2001

France's Magical Ice Age Art: Chauvet Cave by Jean Clottes, National Geographic Aug 2001

Writing Assignments:

Journal entry from the viewpoint of one of the characters on Noah's Ark

Creation poem using the letters of creation.

Make a list of Bible characters that were men after God's own heart

Story of one caught in the flood and hadn't believed Noah was sane prior.

Table of Contents for this unit for portfolio

Research Graphics and Worksheets:

Storyboard of the story of Adam and Eve and the Fall

Descendants of Adam Graph

Comparison of Adam and Jesus

Article review on National Geographic articles mentioned in resources

Bible Character sketches on Adam, Eve, and Noah

Prehistory Information Cards

Vocabulary:

ancestor, Tower of Babel, babble, banish, covenant, cubit, deluge, descendant, genealogy, Pentateuch, Genesis, rebellion, evolution, humanism, culture, dispersion, nation

Art:

Color a Creations coloring sheet - Choose from a wide variety

Draw a picture of the ark and how it would have looked

Art review on cave art piece

Coloring sheet for Prehistory divider page (elementary)

Divider page for Mesopotamia section of portfolio

Music:

Who is the father of musicians?

Field Trips:

Paleontology lab at a local college

Timeline Characters/Events:

Creation, Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth, Methuselah, Noah, flood, Ham, Japheth, Lamech, Nimrod, Shem, Shinar, Tower of Babel

History:

Read History text on Ancient Mesopotamia and outline chapter

Write out questions in review and answer with complete sentences.

Study the different ancient cultures of Mesopotamia

Geography:

Make a map of Noah's sons' dispersion

Locate the expected place of the original Garden of Eden on a Mesopotamia map

Map of the world before it divided

Science:

Compare the world before and after a flood. Include drawings of before the flood.

Study and color dinosaurs as found in the OCEA book or coloring sheets off of the web

Create a dinosaur lapbook (elementary)

Write summaries of theory of evolution and discuss Charles Darwin

Culminating Activities:

Prehistory Test

Organize Notebook section on Prehistory (High school level)

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