Reviewing the Stone Age

Reviewing the Stone Age

Let's check in to see what we know and what we need to review about the Stone Age

Open Ended

What is the stone age?

​The Stone age...

• ​A prehistoric period of time where stone was used to make tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.

• ​We divide the Stone Age into two other periods...

Multiple Select

What are the two periods or "ages" that make up the Stone Age?

• Bronze Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• Golden Age

Multiple Choice

Which came first or refers to the earliest part of the Stone Age?

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

Multiple Choice

During the Paleolithic Age how did people get their food?

• farming

• hunting and gathering

• going to grocery stores

​Paleolithic Age

• ​During the Paleolithic Age, humans hunted and gathered to get their food and supplies.

• ​Everyone in the group worked to find food because it was key to the groups survival - this is why it was important for them to form groups of many people

Fill in the Blank

------- are people who move from place to place to find food for themselves

​Ice Age

• ​The last ice age occurred about 100,000 years ago

• ​An ice age is a long period of extreme cold where glaciers covered much of the land

• ​Because of all of the ice being created the sea levels became lower which led to...

Multiple Choice

What were people now able to do because of the ice age and lowering sea levels?

• Cook new foods

• Walk from Asia and Europe to the Americas on a land bridge

• Swim in oceans

• Hunt new animals

​The Neolithic Age

• ​The Neolithic Age began about 8000 BCE and ended around 4000 BCE

• ​During the Neolithic age many things changed for how people lived their lives and got what they needed to live...

Multiple Choice

What is the biggest change from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age?

• they use boats

• they built new weapons

• they started to farm and were no longer nomads

• they built new tools

Multiple Choice

Aside from just farming crops, what else did people in the Neolithic Age do that made a more stable food supply?

• use new technology

• eat less fish

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• domesticate animals