Lesson #18 Introduction to Neolithic Revolution

Introduction to Neolithic Revolution

Date: 11/24/2020

• Entry: Intro to Neolithic Age           

• Focus: How did the development of agriculture change daily life in the Neolithic Age?

• SWBAT demonstrate understanding of how agriculture changed daily life in the Neolithic Age.

Connection:

How did early hunter-gatherers* survive without the technology we have today? Describe what an average day for them looked like. 

Open Ended

Connection:

How did early hunter-gatherers* survive without the technology we have today? Describe what an average day for them looked like.

Vocabulary of the Day

Agriculture: the business of farming; growing crops [fruits, vegetables, etc.] and raising animals 

• Farming

• Crops

• Using animals rather than just hunting them

Agriculture

Let's List Keywords ->

• Farming

• Crops

• Vegetables

• Seeds

• Planting

• Animals

• Food

Vocabulary of the Day

Nomad: people who travel from place to place with no permanent home

• Moved looking for food or better climate.

• When they ran out of food, they just kept moving, did not know how to plant their own.

Nomad

Let's List Keywords

• Homeless (No real home)

• Travel

• Weather

• Need Food

• Wander

• Migrate

Vocabulary of the Day

Domestication: the process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm.

• Turning wild animals into domesticated animals

• Using it for help on a farm or for travel

Domestication

Let's List Keywords

• Animals

• Tame

• Not Wild

• Useful

• Pets

• Jobs

We will now answer three questions based on this image.

Open Ended

What do you see/notice?

Open Ended

What new innovations (technology/tools/ideas) are being used in this image?

Open Ended

How do these people differ from hunter-gatherers (early humans)?

Reading Time.

We will now read a short text on the difference between the PALEOLITHIC ERA and NEOLITHIC ERA then we will answer questions.

Scientists have identified and studied five important groups of hominins*. You'll read about how early people learned, over thousands of years, to produce food by farming.

Humans discovered farming toward the end of the Stone Age. This period gets its name from the stone tools prehistoric people made and used. Historians divide the Stone Age into two periods. The first is the Paleolithic Age, or Old Stone Age. 

During this period, people got food by roaming from place to place to hunt wild animals and gather nuts, berries, and seeds from the plants they found.

Multiple Choice

How did early humans obtain food in the Paleolithic Age?

• A) They went to the supermarket daily.

• B) People got food by roaming from place to place to hunt wild animals and gather nuts, berries, and seeds from the plants they found.

• C) People were able to grow crops and domesticate animals.

By about 8000 B.C.E., some people had learned how to raise animals and crops for food. This knowledge enabled* these people, for the first time, to live in one place. The Neolithic Age, or New Stone Age, had begun.

This gradual shift [move] from hunter-gatherers (food collectors) to farmers (food producers) is one of the most important improvements in human development. In the Neolithic Age, People built permanent shelters. They settled in larger communities in the best areas for growing crops. 

People developed new skills and made a variety of things that improved the quality of their lives. Over time, they also began to exchange goods with people in other communities for the things they lacked in their own villages. In this lesson, you will explore the many ways in which the development of farming changed human life.

Multiple Select

Choose ALL correct answers: Which of the following changed during the Neolithic Era?

• People were able to build permanent shelters

• People kept hunting animals and gathering fruits and berries

• People learned to grow crops and domesticate animals.

• Eventually, people learned to trade resources.

Open Ended

Why was the shift from hunter-gatherers to farmers the most important advances in history?

Restate and Answer.

Discussion Question:

What changes happened when humans shifted from hunter-gatherers to farmers? Describe how this IMPROVED their lives.