1. Paleo People and Megafauna
Examining weird people and weirder animals

2. Drill: Let’s Review
In a previous class, we discussed billions of years of evolutionary history.
Let’s review that history, while trying to determine how the vastness of time makes you feel.

3. Drill: Time How did the idea of time make you feel?
Do we have any real reason to worry?

4. Migration More Let’s Review
In a previous class, we discussed the lifestyles of early humans. What effect did push and pull factors have on their lives?
Migration

5. Applying Migration Why do people move?
Examples?: better location, more resources, avoid hurtful people, etc.
How do groups of people decide how and where to move?

6. How important is language?
In this activity, one member of each group will be the messenger. The rest of your group will be recipients.
The messenger’s job is to communicate the 3 messages on their sheet to the recipients.
The recipient’s job is to try and remember the messages as they are received.
Here’s the catch: NO ONE MAY TALK, DRAW, OR WRITE.

7. Applying Migration Why do people move?
Examples?: better location, more resources, avoid hurtful people, etc.
How do groups of people decide how and where to move?
Do people have a better chance at surviving with other people or on their own?

8. How important is Teamwork?
Imagine you see a herd of these creatures roaming in a field.
Using the tool box, turn and talk with other students to come up with a plan to kill the creature and use it for resources.
Tool box:
Stone, bone, wood, fire
What plan did you make to kill it?
What uses can you get from its resources?

9. megafauna - large-bodied mammals, that is, any mammal weighing more than 100 pounds

10. Other Megafauna Woolly Rhino Diprotodon Megatherium Smilodon
Glyptotherium

11. So what happened?
If we have time.

12. Megafauna Extinction Are we to blame? Was it something else?
Write your response to the question after you’ve completed the chart.

13. Temporary Shelters No Culture Hunting Giant Animals
The Paleo Lifestyle
nomadic: moving from place to place in search of resources
What are the problems with being a nomad?
Temporary Shelters
No Culture
Hunting Giant Animals
Lack of Possessions

14. Paleo People: Making Life better
sedentary: remaining/living in one area
How might early humans benefit from a change to a sedentary lifestyle?
What big change could they make to become sedentary?
Farming!

15. Prehistoric or Present
Who would you rather be?
Are you feeling better now than at the start of class?