Lesson Planning

Learn about the caves in which Ice Age art has been preserved. Make your own geodesic cave and explore a variety of techniques for making it more realistic.

Teaching Outcomes:

To be able to make a geodesic dome.
To turn a geodesic dome into a cave..
To understand the geometry of the geodesic dome.

Children will:

Make a geodesic dome.
Make choices on appropriate materials to use to make cave walls.
Try out different methods of making joins and attaching paper onto the dome.

Planning