1. Do Now Copy the HW for tonight:
Quiz on section 2 tomorrow!
Study vocab, notes, pages 12-17
Open to page 12 and copy the definition for the word:
Domesticate

2. DOMESTICATE
To adapt wild plants or tame wild animals and breed them for human use.

3. Beginning of farming - agriculture

4. Activities for Today
Using the graphic organizer called “Changes that lead to the NEW STONE AGE.”
Read “The Beginning of Farming” on page 15 to page 17.
Take notes for each category.
Then, draw a picture to represent each category.

5. What changes lead to the New Stone Age?
The Beginning of Farming
People began to grow their own food
People farmed where the soil was rich
People lived closer together to farm
Domestication of Plants
People chose the biggest, best seeds to plant (domesticate)
Domestication of Animals
Humans learned to tame wild animals
Dogs were domesticated for hunting
Sheep, goats, pigs good for milk, wool, meat.

6. Domesticating Plants
5,000 BC 1,500 AD

8. Food for Thought
Seeing how domesticating plants can actually change them over many years…
What do you think domesticating animals could do to them over time?
Example?

9. Do Now What started the beginning of the New Stone Age?
Copy the HOMEWORK:
Quiz on section 2 tomorrow!
Study vocab
Study notes from binder
Study pages 12-17
In your DO NOW section, answer in a complete sentence:
What started the beginning of the New Stone Age?

10. Old Stone Age or New Stone Age?
Lived and hunted in smaller groups
Farmed the land.
Domesticated crops.
Hunted animals and gatherers plants.
Lived in larger farming communities.
Domesticated animals for different uses.

11. Learning Activity for Today
With your group and using the worksheet:
Complete the T-chart comparing and contrasting the OSA and the NSA.
Focus on:
Social organization (how were people organized? Groups? Pairs? Individuals?)
How they used land & natural resources
Draw a scene showing those differences.

12. Old Stone Age New Stone Age
Social organization
Lived and hunted in small groups
How they used land & natural resources
Hunted animals and gathered plants.
Social organization
Lived in larger farming communities.
Lived closer together.
How they used land & natural resources
Farmed the land and domesticated crops.
Domesticated animals for different uses.