Paleolithic Age vs. Neolithic Age WEBQUEST

Your Task: You will work alone or with a partner to complete the questions on the Paleolithic and Neolithic Era. Use the information and pictures in this Power Point and the websites listed on the slides to answer each question. Please restate the question in your answer.

The Paleolithic Age: 1 million B.C.E.8,000 B.C.E.

How did people get food. Did people move around or stay in one place How did people get food? Did people move around or stay in one place? Where did people live? Click here to find the answer to these questions. Once you get to the website, 1. Click on Paleolithic Age 2. Then click on Hunters and Gatherers

What kinds of tools did people use? Click here to find the answer to this question. Once you get to the website, 1. Click on Paleolithic Age 2. Click on How Paleolithic Beings Used Stones

What kind of art did people create? Use these two websites to see the art Paleolithic people created: http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/index.php#/en/00.xml

How did people use fire? cooking (of course!) for curing animal hides as a weapon: protection and hunting as a source of heat and light

Neolithic Age: 8,000 B.C.E.-3,000 B.C.E.

How did people get food? Use these two websites to find out: http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0022-agricultural-revolution.php http://www.historiasiglo20.org/prehistory/index.htm. Once you get to this website, click on Neolithic Age.

Did people move around or stay in one place? Where did people live? Click here to find the answers to these two questions. Tour a Neolithic house: http://www.smm.org/catal/mysteries/first_city/tour_city/catal_house/?flashVar=1.

What kinds of tools did people use? Click here to find out.

What kind of art did people create? Use these websites to find out: http://www.smm.org/catal/artifacts/pottery/ http://www.smm.org/catal/artifacts/murals/

Oral Defense As you know, besides completing the questions you must be able to explain to me that you understand what you just did. So you should be able to describe to me characteristics from both the Paleolithic and Neolithic Age.