1. Warm-up Questions What do you call a relative that lived in the past?
What is a hominid?
On which continent were Australopithecus remains found?
What are items that are modified to accomplish a task called?
Notice:
You need your coloring pencils today!

2. The Stone Ages The First People Ancient Civilizations
Mr. Hollingsworth’s World History
Tuesday – August 22, 2017

3. Alabama Course of Study
Explain how artifacts and other archaeological findings provide evidence of the nature and movement of prehistoric groups of people.
Identify terms used to describe characteristics of early societies and family structures.

4. Today’s Learning Targets
I will be able to use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I will identify the physical and cultural features of this region on a map.
I will evaluate the conclusions of anthropologists on the discovery of early hominids.
I will identify early Paleolithic tools.
PreAP – I will describe how humans’ ways of living changed as they interacted and adapted.

5. Warm-up Questions What do you call a relative who lived in the past?
ancestor
What is a hominid?
An early ancestor of humans

6. Warm-up Questions
On which continent was Australopithecus remains found?
Africa (East Africa)
What are items that are modified to accomplish a task called?
tools
On which continent were Australopithecus remains found? What are items that are modified to accomplish a task called? 

7. Notebook Check
You are now going to take the notebook check for your work from last week. Refer to the “Uncovering the Past” unit in your notebook to find the answers to the questions. You will have five minutes for this activity.

8. Map Assignment
You will now receive the map for this unit. Remember: It goes on page 1 of your notebook.
Make sure you copy down the map items listed on the board.

9. PreAP Portfolio
We are now going over the portfolio requirements for this class. Refer to your chapter 2 portfolio handout.

10. PreAP – Postcards
As you are working on the map and portfolio assignments, we will continue working on your Postcards from the Edge activity.

11. Reading Check Questions
What can ancient bones tell us about human ancestors?
About human development and early human physical appearances
How was Homo erectus different from Homo habilis?
Homo erectus walked completely upright. Homo habilis did not.

12. Reading Check Questions
How did tools improve during the Old Stone Age?
People learned to use flint to make tools and to attach wooden handles to the tools.

13. Reading Check Questions
What was one possible reason for the development of language?
It made it easier to hunt as a group, distribute food, and establish relationships.

14. Scientists Study Remains
___ was invented about 5,000 years ago. ___ discovered bones in 1959 in East ___.
Writing / Leakey / Africa
These bones was the remains an ___ of early humans. It was a ___.
ancestor / hominid

15. Scientists Study Remains
In ___, Johanson found more bones that he called ___. He could tell she ___ on two legs.
1974 / Lucy / walked
In ___, White found bones as old as ___ ___ years.
1994 / 4.4 million

16. Hominids and Early Humans
In 1960, ___ found ___ remains he called ___ ___, or “handy man.”
Leakey / hominid / Homo habilis
1.5 million years ago ___ ___ (upright man) appeared in Africa.
Homo erectus

17. Hominids and Early Humans
The first humans are called ___ ___ (___ ___).
Homo sapiens / “wise man”

18. Stone Age Tools
The time of the first humans is called the ___ ___. It is further divided into three periods: ___, ___, and ___ Eras.
Stone Age / Paleolithic / Mesolithic / Neolithic

19. Chunking Map Items Indian Ocean Atlantic Ocean Red Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Nile River
Congo River
Zambezi River

20. Today’s Learning Targets
I can use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I can identify the physical and cultural features of this region on a map.
I can evaluate the conclusions of anthropologists on the discovery of early hominids.
I can identify early Paleolithic tools.
PreAP – I can describe how humans’ ways of living changed as they interacted and adapted.