November 3, 2009
Bell Ringer
- What advantages did people gain from settling down in one place?
- What skills and practices were important in the growth and spread of early civilizations?
Process
Homework
October 30, 2009
Bell Ringer
- Describe the importance of animals to the survival of hunters and gatherers long ago.
- Why did prehistoric people migrate from place to place?
Unit Essential Question
- How did early humans set the stage for the first communities?
Lesson Essential Questions
- What advantages did people gain from settling down in one place?
- What skills and practices were important in the growth and spread of early civilizations?
Vocabulary
- Irrigation
- Supplying land with water through a network of canals
- Surplus
- Artisan
- Worker who is especially skilled at crafting items by hand
- Civilization
- Society with cities, a central government, job specialization, and social classes
- Social Class
- Group of people with similar backgrounds, incomes, and ways of living
Process
- Collect homework
- Introduce Vocabulary
- Show Video (29 minutes)
- Ancient Civilizations: Beginning is the End
- What effect did food surpluses have on people living in settlements?
- What skills and practices were important in the growth and spread of early civilizations?
- What was the Bronze Age?
- Most cities had what in common?
- What helped spread ideas and cultures around the world?
Homework
- Quiz Monday 11/9 and Tuesday 11/10 on prehistory. Lessons 16-18.
October 28, 2009
Bell Ringer
- What does a historian use to piece together information about society?
- If you were an archaeologist what tools might you use to dig up the past?
Unit Essential Question
- How did early humans set the stage for the first communities?
Lesson Essential Questions
- How did hunters and gatherers live during the Stone Age?
- What skills did people develop during the New Stone Age?
Vocabulary
- Stone Age
- Period of time during which early humans made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone; earliest known period of human culture.
- Nomad
- Person who has no settled home.
- Fertile
- Rich in the substances plants need to grow well; describes soil and land.
- Domesticate
- Adapt wild plants for human use; tame wild animals and breed them for human use.
Process
- Introduce Vocabulary
- Video
- World History: Pre-history 1 & 2
- Why do you think humans migrated from continent to continent?
- How did H & G live?
- Skills in the New Stone Age
- Activity
- Write an answer sandwich
- Pretend you are a early human in the Stone Age. Explain how your life was and how it started to change in the New Stone Age.
October 26, 2009
Bell Ringer
- What does an Archaeologist do?
Objectives
- Archaeology and History
- What tools are used to understand history?
- What do historians use to understand society?
Process
October 22, 2009
Bell Ringer
- Choose three aspects of culture you thought were interesting from the different presentations.
- Be sure to list the country with the aspect of culture.
Objective
- Finish presentations.
- Take the National Speakup Day Survey
Process
October 6, 2009
Process
- Continue your research.
- Remember to use your delicious account to tag favorites.
- Decide what you will be using Google Earth for?
- Show an important monument?
- Show a cool amusement park?
- See what houses look like with Street View?
- Find some kind of interactive information
- Interactive Map of your country
- Youtube video
- Something that makes your presentation exciting!
- Have a clear understanding of what pictures you plan on using.
- Find those pictures and tag them!
Presentations
- Presentations start Tuesday October 13th!
October 5, 2009
Bell Ringer
- List two aspects of your country’s culture.
Objectives
- Sign up for delicious account.
- Continue research for your country.
Process
- Create a delicious account for yourself
- Continue Research
October 1, 2009
Bell Ringer
- List 6 different aspects of culture.
Objectives
- Share examples of culture presentations.
- Select your teams country for the presentation.
- Review Culture Rubric
- Introduce Country Reports and tourism websites.
Process
- Culture
- Work independently while using the aspects of culture sheet as a guide.
- In your notebooks, take notes on the aspects of culture of your country.
- Save pictures in your server folder
- Resources
September 29, 2009
Bell Ringer
- What are the five fundamental themes of geography?
- What countries have you visited?
Objectives
- Discover how to effectively use PowerPoint.
- Receive your partners for the culture presentations.
- Learn about culture.
Process
- Show “Culture What Is It?” PowerPoint
- Brainstorm the aspects of culture
- Pre-Video activity
- In groups have the students list the different aspects of German culture
- Use Google Earth to show location of Germany
- Video
- Show DVD – Germany (27 minutes)
September 25, 2009
Bell Ringer
- What is the difference between absolute location and relative location?
- Write what you know about longitude.
Objectives
- Take geography quiz
- Work on Lewisburg paragraph
- Review fundamental themes test
Process
- Take geography quiz
- After test work on your paragraph
- Writing Prompt
- Use a blank piece of paper in your notebooks
- Be sure to skip spaces
- Use the answer sandwich model
- “Describe Lewisburg using the five fundamental themes of geography as your guideline.”
- Review Themes Test
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