1. Do Now Copy the HW for tonight:
WHIL due Friday (we start it in class today)
Open the textbook to page 12- under KEY TERMS.
Copy the definitions for hominid and Stone Age onto your vocabulary worksheet.
*Who owes me homework? Quiz?

2. Vocab
Hominid: a modern human or a member of an earlier group that may have ancestors or relatives of modern humans
Stone Age: a period of time during which hominids made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone; earliest know period of prehistoric culture

3. WHIL: What Have I Learned
1. What have I learned about this week? Be specific and discuss 4+ topics.
2. How did I learn about these things? Use the top of page 1 for help.

4. Activity for Today and Tomorrow
Work in partners.
1. Google “DK find out stone age” and click the SECOND link that says “Stone Age For Kids.”
2. For each topic below, click on the website link. Read about each topic from the Old Stone Age and in the space below, write down important ideas and details about each. You should also draw a small picture to show what you learned.
NB check today

5. Review Tool Makers made tools from stone, bones, and wood
Humans needed knowledge and skills to make tools
These humans had bigger brains and skilled hands
They made sharp tools to cut up animals to eat
Fire Makers
learned how to use and control fire
could cook food, keep warm, scare away animals, use for light

6. Review Cave Dwellings Big Game Hunting Built their own shelters
Moved around as they followed food
Lived in the entrance of caves, or in temporary shelters made of branches, leaves, and animal skins
Big Game Hunting
Hunted animals for food, such as mammoths
Worked in groups to hunt sick, young, or lone animals
Took skills, teamwork, and weapons

7. Review Stone Age Food Stone Age Clothes
They did not grow their own food, they went out and found it
Hunted and fished for food
Gathered plants, eggs, honey
Traveled from place to place looking for the best hunting spots
Stone Age Clothes
Humans used animal skins to keep warm
Used plants to make body paint
Make jewelery from bones

8. Review Stone Age Beliefs Gathering
Humans developed beliefs to explain the
world around them
Believed in animal spirits
Built tombs
Made up stories to explain the weather and seasons
Offered gifts and performed ceremonies to keep their gods happy
Gathering
women gathered nuts, leafs, roots, and fruits
they could find materials to make tools and weapons, like bone, stone, and wood

9. Whole-class discussion
How did hominids survive during this time?
What important skills did hominids of the Old Stone Age use to find food?