Lesson Plans Week: August 11-15
Unit Two: Early Civilizations
Preset: Recall Earliest Childhood Memories
Focus: 1. What was life like before written history?
2. How do we know about prehistoric people?
3. What role did the environment play in shaping the prehistoric world?
August 11
Activity One: Improve Dictionary Skills
Activity Two: Vocabulary Practice (Smart Board Activity)
Activity Three: Graphic Organizer-“Scholars Who Study the Past”
Homework: Primary Source Activity Worksheet-“How to Excavate a Buried Town”
August 12
Activity One: Discuss the importance of cave paintings after viewing video clip “Lascaux Cave
Paintings”
Activity Two: Interpret several examples of cave art painting.
Activity Three: Using online resources students will determine the significance of the archaeological
and anthropological findings of Mary and Louis Leakey and Donald Johanson.
a. Lucy
b. Iceman
Homework: Complete comparison chart for the following: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic
August 13
Activity One: Formative Assessment (Smart Board Vortex Game)
Activity Two: Geography Skills-“A Geographic View of History”
a. Map Activity One
Activity Three: Introduce Neolithic Revolution
1. Students read text material and complete Comparison Diagram-“Eras of Prehistory”
Life Before Faming/Life After Farming
Summarizing: In your own words, summarize how the Neolithic Revolution changed the way people
lived.
August 14
I will introduce “The Development of Civilization”
Activity One: Note Taking Study Guide (Graphic Organizer Worksheet-will be completed as students
read the relevant textbook content)
Activity Two: Vocabulary Skills Development (Define the terms noted on the Smart Board Lesson)
Reading Check: What is significant about the rise of cities?
Reading Skill: Explain what caused cultural diffusion.
Homework: Crossword Puzzle Worksheet
Test Review:
1. What evidence do historians study to learn about the past?
2. What have stone tools taught anthropologists about early humans?
3. What is archaeology, anthropology, history?
4. How was the introduction of agriculture a turning point in prehistory?
5. What religious beliefs did early modern humans develop during the Old Stone Age?
6. What led to the establishment of the first permanent villages?
7. Why did early civilizations develop near major rivers?
8. What roles did central governments have in early civilizations?
August 15
Chapter One Test