1. Paleolithic and Neolithic
Unit 1

2. ALL CELL PHONE SHOULD BE
Bellringer
Practice walking in, picking up papers by the door and placing your homework in the in box before the bell rings.
ALL CELL PHONE SHOULD BE
TURNED OFF!

3. Review Procedures Entering class
Take today’s papers
Sharpen pencils, etc.
Start the Bellringer
“On time” means in your seat working when the bell rings

4. Procedures Leaving the room Bathroom/water/nurse ask before leaving.
Wait till all instructions have been given.
Interrupt class for emergencies
End of class: clean up supplies, move desks to where they belong, wait for teacher to dismiss you

5. Agenda Bellringer Stations Review Begin on Homework
Day 2
Bellringer
Stations
Station 1: Time and Timelines
Station 2: Charts and Graphs
Station 3: Textbook scavenger hunt
Station 4: Vocabulary Words m(1-18)/ Maps
Review
Begin on Homework

6. Skills Objectives S S Students will be able to…
Identify and locate key features of the textbook.
Take effective notes from textbook readings. S S

7. Textbooks You break it (or lose it), you bought it!
Make sure your name is in it
Make sure my name is in it
Make sure the Textbook List is filled out completely and legibly

8. Stations Directions You will have 15 minutes at each station
Complete packet located in each folder
You may work in pairs within your group NO MORE than 3 per group
When time is up pass folder to the next group

9. Stations Review Station 1: Time and Timelines
Station 2: Charts and Graphs
Station 3: Textbook scavenger hunt
Station 4: Vocabulary Words/ Maps

10. Vocabulary Words

11. Prehistory Objective #1
Prehistory – the time in human history before the invention of writing
What sources can we use to understand the “prehistoric” world?
What this? This help you identify which objective this slide is related to!
VOCABULARY word!
With definition!

12. Unwritten History
Oral histories
Drawings
Stuff they left behind

13. Oral Histories
Storytellers prized in many cultures, and stories are passed down for generations
Problems:
“Whisper down the lane” effect
Dead people don’t tell stories

14. Drawings
Mostly, cave paintings
Famous pictures from Lascaux (France)

16. Cave Paintings Art is in the eye of the beholder Stories?
Actual events?
Religious beliefs?
Nice pictures?
Textbooks?

17. Artifacts
Something made by people
VOCABULARY word!

18. Fossils
Solidified remains of living things

19. Using Artifacts Some assembly required
Like a giant puzzle with no idea what the picture will be
What if we use things for different purposes?
If we know what, do we know when?
Some things get lost

20. Objective #2
Studying the Past
Archeology
Anthropology

21. Archeology
The study of the human past by examining artifacts and remains
Excavation
Hoping to find ancient settlements, burial sites, tools, etc.

22. Carbon Dating
A scientific test used to analyze the age of artifacts and fossils
(based on the half-life decay of Carbon-14… ask a science teacher)
Pretty accurate for the last 40,000 years or so

23. Anthropology Study of human origins, relationships, and cultures
Try to determine how humans evolved (physically and culturally)
Archeology is a subfield of anthropology
What is culture?

24. Objective #3
Culture
Culture is a system of beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that guide behavior and are shared by a group of people
Everyone has culture
What does culture include?

25. Homework Buy a notebook. Bring by next class
Read: Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Societies
Read Directions carefully!

26. Bellringer Pull out the following items
Syllabus
Your homework
Vocabulary words
Grab the following (will need to share!)
Glue
Scissors

27. Agenda Bellringer: Setting up interactive notebook
Preview (aka: Bellringer)
Notes
Working with book
Working independently
Discussion
Process
Homework

28. Objectives
1: Identify the characteristics of Prehistoric man, and their migration patterns throughout the prehistoric world
2: List the major advances early humans made during the Paleolithic Era.
3: Describe hunter-gatherer life.

29. Interactive notebook Why: Expectations To help student to be organized
Allow student to become more active with their learning
Expectations
Placing all required work in notebook
Leaving notebook in class room
Will use a folder to carry homework in

30. Notebook Set up On the back of the front cover: First page 2nd Page
Syllabus
First page
Front: table of contents (pg1)
Back: level of questioning (pg2)
2nd Page
Front Ms. Heath’s Rule of World History (pg3)
Back: Page one of Vocabulary words (pg 4)
3rd page
Front: page two of vocabulary words (pg 5)
Back: Preview activity (pg6)

31. Notebook Set up Any Questions???
Glue the notes and Process on the next pages
Any Questions???
From now on when you walk
Collect your notebook
Glue homework in
Cut and glue in Preview
I will give you directions on the notes and process
Either in the powerpoint or after I get class started

32. Objective #2
Early Humans

33. Early Humans
Start our story at the dawn of the Paleolithic Era, about 2.5 million years ago
the Old Stone Age
Humans created the first tools made out of stone

34. Better than Monkeys Early humans developed
Simple stone tools
Control of fire
Oral language
All keys to cooperating in hunts, which bring food and resources

35. Wise Man
Smarter, larger-brained humans known as homo sapiens (Latin for “wise man”)
Developed technology
Clothing
Shelter
Art
Homo sapiens are modern humans

36. Out of Africa Homo sapiens arose in Africa about 200,000 years ago
Migration to all continents (except Antarctica) beginning around 100,000 years ago

38. Objective #3
Hunter-gatherer Life
People Profiles

39. Source of Food Hunting Gathering Get it? Hunter-gatherers!
Main source, whatever they could catch, kill, and cook!
Gathering
Wild fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, etc.
Get it? Hunter-gatherers!

40. Size of Groups Small groups Why?
Clans: people, one or a few extended families
Why?

41. Permanent Settlements
No! They were nomads
Why move?
Follow herds
No food left
Seasons change
Too cold or hot
No water left

42. Location Factors
Mainly, Paleolithic (and prehistoric) people followed their food
Animals migrate, so did the people
Overpopulation (of people)
Overconsumption (of resources in one spot)

43. Getting Along Cooperation was necessary for survival
Knew everyone in their clan – all relatives
No private property – no where to put it
No fighting other groups – no one around
Finding food…just not that hard

44. Bellringer Have completed 10minutes after the bell
Collect your notebook
Cut and glue all items into notebook
Finish Process from last class and begin working on Preview for lesson 2
REMEMBER the order!
Preview (can begin once completed)
Notes
Process
homework from last night

45. Agenda
Preview: Discussion
Activity
Lecture
Reading
Process

46. Homework DO NOT LOSE IT! Study for Test
Will be allowed to take home your notebook
DO NOT LOSE IT!

47. Neolithic Age Neolithic Age means:
New Stone Age
How did Neolithic Age differ from Paleolithic Age?
Learnt to polish tools
Make pottery
Grow crops and domesticated animals

48. Neolithic Revolution
Shift from hunting and gathering to farming

49. Neolithic Revolution Cont.
Provided a steady source of food and extra
Causing
Need to store food
Permanent Settlement
Population growth
Specialization and Organization

50. Early Farming Methods Crops Animals Slash and burn faming
Cut tree or grass and burnt them to clear a field
Ashes fertilized the soil
Domestication taming of animals
Happened slowly
Human being to control some animals lives

51. Where did it happen? First seen in the fertile crescent
Later in river valleys

52. Example of Neolithic Activity
Stonehenge
Started during the Neolithic Age and completed during the bronze Age
Aleppo
Ancient City which was a regional trading post

53. Homework
Study Guide