1. Early Humans

2. KWL Chart

3. Early Humans Stone Age – Early period of human history
Because most of the tools and weapons were made from stone
Paleolithic = Old Stone Age
Began roughly 2.5 million years ago and lasted until around 8000 B.C

4. Who were the Hunter-Gatherers?
Early humans spent most of their time searching for food
Hunted animals, caught fish, ate insects
Gathered nuts, berries, fruits, grains & plants
Paleolithic people were always on the move
Nomads: people who regularly move from place to place
Men hunted animals; Women gathered supplies and took care of children

5. Adapting to the Environment
Made shelters out of animal hides, bones and wood
Used caves as well
Discovery of fire
Gave warmth
Lit darkness and scared away wild animals
Food tasted better, was easier to digest and lasted longer

6. Caveman Diary Cave Man Journal – be creative
Imagine yourself as a Stone Age human.
Write a diary entry for a typical day you experience in the Stone Age. Be sure to add as many details as possible so we can easily imagine what you are doing.
Answer:
What does your area look like?
What did you do today?
Who did you interact with?
What did you see, hear, taste, smell, or touch

7. Language, Art, Religion 1st spoken language was created
Made it easier for people to work together and pass on knowledge
Made paintings on the inside of cave walls
Usually about lions, oxen, panthers and other animals
Not sure why they were created
Might have been religious
Might of brought good luck on a hunt

9. Cave Art Gallery Walk
Walk around the room looking at each piece of Cave Art
Answer the questions in your notebook for each of the pictures
What is this a picture of?
How do you think it was painted?
Why do you think it was painted? (Importence)

10. Activity – Cave Art Create your own cave art
On the brown butcher paper, create a piece of artwork that might have been found during the Stone Age
Your cave drawing should be of
Something beautiful you have seen
An important event from your life
Reflection
Why did you choose this event?
What should a viewer see in the art?
What action is happening in the art?
What seems to be important to you?

11. The Invention of Tools First to use technology
Technology: tools and methods to help humans perform tasks
Most tools were made from Flint
Hand axes or hunting spears
Over time, humans got better at making tools
Made smaller and sharper tools
Fish hooks and needles from bones
/early-tools

12. Make your own tool!
Create a tool that you think would have been useful during the PALEOLITHIC ERA.
In your notebook on page ________
Draw a picture of what the tool might look like
Must be in color
Describe
The materials you might use (Remember you must use only things found in nature!!!!)
The uses of this tool

13. What were the Ice Ages? Lasted from 100,000 B.C. – 8,000 B.C.
Thick ice sheets covered parts of Europe, Asia and North America
Early Humans had to adapt
Changing their diet
Building sturdier shelters
Using animal furs for warmer clothing
Using fire was key
Oceans dropped – exposed land
Land Bridges allowed people to travel around the world

14. How did Stone Age people get from Asia to North America?
What might have made it hard to migrate to Northern Asia?
Why do people migrate?

16. Quick Write
Answer the following questions in your interactive notebook:
How did the ice ages influence human migration?

17. Otzi the Iceman

18. Neolithic Times
After the last Ice Age ended, people began to live differently
People learned how to domesticate animals
Domesticate: tame animals or plants for human use
Learned how to grow food
Could stay in one place!
Farming slowly started to replace hunting and gathering
Theses changes marked the beginning of the Neolithic Age or New Stone Age
8000 B.C. – 4000 B.C.

19. Why was Farming Important?
Farming did not begin in one region
Asia – people grew wheat, barley, rice, soybeans and millet
Mexico – people grew corn, squash and potatoes
Africa – people grew millet and sorghum

20. Beginnings of Agriculture
Which do you think had more significant results, domestication of plants or animals?
Did farming change the way people lived? How?

21. Growth of Villages
Villages were started in Europe, India, Egypt, China and Mexico
Lived in mud-brick houses that were packed tightly
People hunted, raised sheep and goats, ate fish and bird eggs

22. The benefits of a Settled Life
Population started to grow
More workers to produce a bigger crop
People began to practice specialization
Specialization: the development of different kinds of jobs
Not everyone was needed for farming anymore
Pottery from clay
Plant fibers to make mats and cloth

23. The benefits of a Settled Life
Tool makers created better farming tools
Began to work with metals (copper)
Tools and weapons
4000 B.C. – mixed copper and tin together to make bronze
Bronze was harder and longer lasting than copper
Became widely used

24. Quickwrite
What did the invention of farming allow people to do and how did this impact modern day civilizations?

25. Early Farming Society What did domestication lead to?
How do you think lives changed after domestication?
How did farming contribute to the development of how we are as a society today?

26. Journal #2 – Neolithic Era
Write a journal entry for a day in the life of a farm family during the Neolithic Era!
Write about:
How you farm
Things you use to make clothing
How you use your animals
How your town has grown