NOVA Stone Age Masterpiece: Chauvet Cave Art Worksheet & Key

Keep students watching and writing the whole way through with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet for NOVA: Stone Age Masterpiece (PBS, 2026). The 15 questions follow the video in the order it plays, so students record each answer as that moment happens on screen instead of reconstructing it afterward — which holds their attention and leaves them with an organized set of notes to study from later.

Built for World History, it is a natural fit for World History and Ancient History classes (grades 6-12) in the prehistory and early humans unit - radiocarbon dating, Paleolithic tools and pigments, and what archaeologists can learn from 37,000-year-old art, and Art History and AP Art History classes starting at the very beginning: charcoal line work, red ocher, blown-pigment dots and scraped-clay murals in one of the oldest decorated caves known. The film runs about 54 minutes, so the whole activity fits inside a single class period. Use it as a full-period viewing activity, a guided companion when you hand the room to a substitute, or a focused review at the end of a unit. A complete answer key is printed on the page right after the worksheet, so whoever is covering the class can run it with no preparation and no background knowledge. The 1-page layout is clean and low-ink, designed to print two-sided. Everything is laid out for a low-prep class period: hand out the page, press play, and let students do the rest. The questions stay in the order the video presents them, so students can follow along without losing their place. It prints cleanly in black and white, which keeps a full class set cheap to photocopy.

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