TITLE: EARLY HUMANS! DO NOW Make a list of 5 things you know about Early Humans (WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR NOTES) Make a list of 5 things you know about the civilization of Early Humans (WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR NOTES)

Benchmarks Next Week! In order to prepare for the History Benchmark next week, we will spend this entire week getting ready! I know you will do great, but we need to make sure that we as a class together understand everything we have learned so far! We need to work as a class to make sure WE ALL help each other out!

Agenda for today: Early Humans Test Review Early Humans Review: Whiteboard Rapid Fire Early Humans Video Study Guide: Early Humans Review

Test Review I’m going to pass out copies of the Early Humans test we took in September We will spend a few minutes going over the questions and the correct answers IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS or are CONFUSED ABOUT ANYTHING, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!! Ashley: I will give you copies of the test to use here. This should only take about 10 minutes.

Don’t Forget… Homo Sapiens (Cro-Magnon) After the Neanderthal were: Homo Sapiens (Cro-Magnon) Cro-Magnon refers to one of the main types of early modern humans whose remains were first Why do you need to remember this? In case they use the word Cro-Magnon instead of Homo Sapiens, you should still know what they are talking about! 

Whiteboard Rapid Fire You will each receive a whiteboard When a question pops up, you will have 15 seconds to respond to the question When I say “GO” EVERYONE must hold up their whiteboards (even if you didn’t know the answer, I want you to write down your best guess)! Ready, Set, Let’s Go…

Early Humans Re-Cap How does a hunter-gatherer obtain food? Name 3 things early humans used fire for? Name 2 things early humans used stone tools for?

Early Humans Re-Cap 4. Draw a stone tool made by an early human 5. What is another name for Lucy’s people? (do your best to spell) 6. How tall was Lucy? 7. Where was Lucy found?

Early Humans Re-Cap 8. Who was the first group of humans to migrate to Europe (their remains have also been found here)? 9. Homo erectus is known as the first early human to do what? 10. In Neolithic times (after hunter-gatherers), how did early humans obtain food?

Early Humans Re-Cap 11. Why/how were Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens able to travel to other parts of the world? 12. During the Ice Age, what did early humans make shelters out of? 13. What does domesticate mean?

Early Humans Re-Cap 14. In order write down the different groups of Early Humans. 15. In order write down the different eras we went over for Early Humans.

Early Humans Video 1. http://video.pbs.org/video/1378637899/ 2. Ancient Civilizations DVD This is a really good video that is about 54 minutes long. You can watch as much as you want as long as you save 30 minutes of class for them to complete the study guide. After, you can show them the Ancient Civilizations DVD.

Study Guide You will be receiving two large index cards this week. The first one will be your study guide for Early Humans You will receive the second one on Thursday for Mesopotamia Please copy down the notes on the index card to use as an additional study tool on top of your notes  Ashley: I have large index cards for both of us that I will give you for this!

Study Guide (use the front and back of your index card) Hunter-gatherers had to adapt to many changes Once they were able to adapt to their environment, they could establish permanent communities When they couldn’t acquire goods they could not produce, they had a surplus of goods that they could trade Homo-erectus was the first species to venture into different climates of Europe. Adjusting to the cold weather was difficult because they had to locate food during the winter seasons

Study Guide (use the front and back of your index card) Domestication of grains (plants) and animals resulted in permanent agricultural settlements Hunter-gatherers experimented with agriculture 12,000 years ago because the earth’s climate warmed and more plants began to grow- Ice Age ended!