Eastern Alamance High School
Lesson Plan 2013-2014
Teacher: Gardner
Department: History
Monday
Common Core/Essential
Standards
LEARNING TARGET
ASSESS/ACTIVATE
PRIOR
KNOWLEDGE(review,
relevance, relate to
objective)
TEACHER INPUT
(Provide information,
model application of
information)
STUDENT ACTIVE
PARTICIPATION
(Alignment of objective
with activity, teacher
models, student
pairs/groups, independent
practice)
Closure
(Review/Re-teach, Identify
Student Success):
Course: World History
Tuesday
Semester:
Wednesday
Block:
Dates: 8/26-8/30
Thursday
Friday
WH.H.2.1
WH.H.2.1
WH.H.2.2, WH.H.2.3
WH.H.2.5
We will learn the rules and
procedures for class as well as
the continents and oceans.
We will learn the
characteristics of early
hominids.
We will learn the essential
characteristics that all
civilizations have in common.
We will learn the similarities
and differences of early
civilizations including those in
Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus
Valley, and China.
We will learn the similarities
and differences between
various religions including
animism, Hinduism, Judaism,
Buddhism, and Christianity.
Find a seat and complete
student information sheet
Journal: What is your goal for
this class? What steps can you
take to ensure you reach this
goal?
Journal: How do we know so
much about prehistoric times –
before writing was developed?
Journal: What steps were
involved in changing early
humans from being nomadic to
living in civilizations?
Journal: If you had to travel
back in time, which of the
civilizations discussed about
yesterday would you rather live
in and why?
Teacher defines Neolithic
Revolution and asks students to
come up with ideas about how
agriculture started.
Emphasize early civilizations
started near fertile river valleys
in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus
Valley, China
Emphasize characteristics of all
civilizations
Discuss difference between
polytheism and monotheism.
Students work with a partner
answering questions about
Neolithic Revolution and the
basic characteristics of
civilization
Students work in groups. Each
group is assigned a civilization
in which they will identify
characteristics of each.
Students will work in groups to
research basic tenants of
Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism,
Christianity, and older
polytheistic beliefs.
Finish hominid charts if needed
Introduction to class, cover
rules and procedures
Geography quiz
Video: History of the world in
7 minutes
Students complete world map
activity sheet as teacher
provides information through
smart board geography lesson.
Students create chart on early
hominids and answer questions
about archaeologists.
Define Unit 1 Vocabulary
terms
Study for quiz tomorrow,
asking review questions from
geography activity
Review with students about
early hominid groups
emphasizing slow process of
change with technology using
pictures in power point.
Watch Otzi video to review
Neolithic clothing and
weapons.
Review how civilizations
began
Each group will provide these
notes and explain to class
Discuss how many religions
grew from older religious
beliefs and how religions
spread through trade routes and
cultural diffusion
Groups will share with class
Continue defining vocabulary
terms
Continue work on Vocabulary
Video on Epic of Gilgamesh
Video on mummification
Emphasize similarities between
certain religions –
Hinduism/Buddhism;
Christianity/Judaism
Eastern Alamance High School
Lesson Plan 2013-2014
Teacher: Gardner
Vocabulary
Department: History
Latitude, Longitude, Equator,
Prime Meridian, Tropic of
Cancer and Capricorn
Course: World History
Australopithecine, homo
habilis, homo erectus, homo
sapien, Paleolithic, nomadic
Semester:
Neolithic Revolution, cultural
diffusion, division of labor,
domestication, surplus,
pastoralists
Block:
Dates: 8/26-8/30
Pharaoh, bureaucracy,
theocracy, Sargon, Hammurabi,
cuneiform, Heiroglyphics,
vedas, castes, Xerxes, Darius,
citadel, dynastic cycle
Diaspora, Torah, Messiah,
Abraham, Exodus, Moses,
varnas Middle Way, Karma,
Dharma, nirvana, moksha,
dualism