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Pictograph Language and Art

Ancient map with illustrations of people, animals, and buildings on a yellowed background in a polaroid frame.

What was life like 500 years ago? How did people communicate without a written language? Instead of written words, one method of communication was through pictures, known as pictographs. This Student Learning Expedition combines history, language arts, and visual arts while offering a glimpse into the life of long ago. Student Explorers will discover the ways life long ago differed from our own and the many ways it was similar. Student Explorers will be told a story using pictures. Student Explorers will then grind minerals into paint and tell their own original story using pictographs.

Cost – $12.50 per Explorer.

This Expedition complements CA history Social Science and Visual Arts Standards – HSS1.4.3; HSS3.2.2; HSS5.1.2; VAPA.VA 1.2.1; LA K-6th

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