November 3, 2009

Lesson 19

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

  • Review Game

Homework

October 30, 2009

Lesson 18

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
    • More than is needed
  • 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

Lesson 17

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
    • Domestication
    • Farming
  • 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

Lesson 16

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

Lesson 15

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

Lesson 14

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

Lesson 13

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

Lesson 12

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

Lesson 11

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

Lesson 10

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

Extension