1. Being a Social Scientist & Lascaux Cave Painting
Date: A B
How do social scientists use artifacts to learn about a society or civilization?
Being a Social Scientist & Lascaux Cave Painting
Class Work:
Warm Up – Check HW- Lat/Long WS
Define Archeology, Anthropology, Artifacts and how they study Culture
Social Scientist WS in groups
Present findings about artifacts
Artifact Analysis – Lascaux Cave Painting
Lascaux Cave Painting reading-read in pairs
WIO
Go over HW
Warm Up: What do you think a social scientist is? Would it be something you would like to do?
WIO: COPY THE BOLD ONLY!!
Culture is a shared practice, belief, attitude, or behavior of a group.
We learn a culture from friends, family, media, government, and religious institutions.
What objects might best represent parts of your culture? List at least 5.
HW: The Lascaux Cave Painting is an estimated 17,000 years old and tells us much about the society that created it. Now, imagine people in the future have discovered a “cave painting” about our society. What would people discover about us?
Write a paragraph to answer the question. Pick one or two items and explain how and what they show about our culture. Could be something personal or something that is of a larger group.
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2. Understanding BC, BCE, AD, and CE
Date: A B
Why/How do historians use a common dating system to recognize the beginning phases of human species?
Understanding BC, BCE, AD, and CE
Class Work:
Warm Up:
Make an educated guess. What do BC, AD, BCE, and CE stand for?
Put the following dates in order of when they happened.
A. Declaration of Independence – 1776 A.D.
B. Columbus comes to the New World – 1492 A.D.
C. Adena culture begins in Ohio B.C.
D. Roman Republic is established – 509 B.C.
Warm Up – Check HW-Culture Paragraph-Share in pairs.
Notes- What is this BCE, CE, BC, and AD?
Timeline Activity
WIO
Discovery Video Clip
Go over HW
HW:
Read over Hominid Chart (put on page 19).
Using the Hominid Chart, put the various hominids in chronologic order, on a timeline, according to when they came into being on page 19 in NB
PROGRESS REPORT SIGNATURE
WIO:
Answer in complete sentences:
What did you think of the timeline activity?
Did it help you understand the differences between BC, BCE, AD and CE better? Explain.
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3. Warm Up – Check HW- Hominid Timeline Watch “Caveman Catastrophe”
Date: A B
What are the significant characteristics about various types of hominids?
Caveman Catastrophe
Class Work:
Warm Up: Use your hominid chart to answer the following questions.
Which hominid do the following statements describe?
I walk on two feet, am about 5 feet tall, and I was the first hominid to make fires.
I am from Europe and central to southwestern Asia, and I was the first early human to have a language.
Warm Up – Check HW- Hominid Timeline
Watch “Caveman Catastrophe”
Pair/Share video questions
WIO
WIO: about hominids
3 – Write 3 things you have learned about hominids
2- Write 2 facts you thought were really interesting (these need to be different than the 3 things you learned)
1- Write 1 question you still have about early humans.
HW:
Create a symbol/visual to represent each of the hominids on the Hominid Chart. This can be on the sheet or on page 19.
Late Progress Reports
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4. Warm Up: View “Prehistoric” song from youtube.com
Date: A B
What are the significant characteristics about various types of hominids?
Early Man Notes
Class Work:
Warm Up: View “Prehistoric” song from youtube.com
Warm Up – Check HW-Signatures, Imagination Map, Cultural Paragraph
“Early Man Notes”
Group work to design a 21st Century tool
HW - WIO
Write down at least 2 facts about prehistoric man from viewing the song
HW: Complete WIO and brainstorm ideas to share with your group about your 21st century tool.
WIO: Draw a symbol for each of the hominids on the chart using one of the characteristics about each of them.
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5. “Prehistoric Man Contest” Paleolithic/Neolithic Notes
Compare and contrast the significant characteristics of the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages. How do the early hominids fit into these ages?
Date: A B
“Prehistoric Man Contest”
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Paleolithic/Neolithic Notes
Class Work:
Warm Up: Copy the underlined words ONLY!! Answer in complete sentences. Go back in your notes to assist in your response and support your answer with at least 3 reasons.
Why do you think Neanderthals died out and Cro-Magnon survived?
Warm Up – Pair/Share, Check HW – WIO
Share 21st century tools
Explain HW
Review Paleolithic/Neolithic chart
Highlight, underline important info
Read intro paragraph for “Prehistoric Man Contest” (PMC)
Review group work rules/expectations
Complete “PMC” in groups
Review answers
WIO – “Horrible Histories – Stone Age” song EXIT SLIP – collect as walking out the door
WIO: Watch “Horrible Histories-Stone Age Song” Copy the underlined ONLY!! Not the website! 
After viewing the Youtube music video clip,
List 3 facts about early man, the Neolithic Age, or the Paleolithic Age that you heard in the clip and that we also discussed in class on 10/1 &10/2 and/or 10/3 & 10/4.
HW: Answer review questions about early hominids. Questions taped in notebook and on WIKI.
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