BELL RINGER PAGE 6

Name 2 of the hominids we discussed last week.

Who was one of the named hominids we discussed?

AGENDA Bell Ringer Notes/Discussion – The First People Experiencing life as a caveman with cave

art Venn Diagram – Comparing Life in the

Stone Age to Life Today

Objective: To compare and contrast life in the Stone Age to modern life.

The first humans and their ancestors lived during the Stone Age. There are three periods of the Stone Age:

Paleolithic

Mesolithic

Neolithic

THERE WERE THREE PERIODS IN THE STONE AGE

Paleolithic—means Old Stone Age

People: Were hunter-gatherers Moved around a lot Used fire Language Religion Invented stone tools

THERE WERE THREE PERIODS IN THE STONE AGE

Mesolithic—means Middle Stone Age

People: Were hunter-gatherers Moved around a lot Used dogs and goats Invented pottery, bow

and arrow

THERE WERE THREE PERIODS IN THE STONE AGE

Neolithic—means New Stone Age

People: Began farming

(agriculture) Settled in villages Invented wheel,

plow, calendar

TOOLS USED BY STONE AGE PEOPLE

Earliest tools found in East Africa

About 2.6 million years old

Each stone was hit with another to create a sharp edge.

Scientists think these first tools were used mostly to cut and grind food.

TOOLS USED BY STONE AGE PEOPLE

People learned how to attach wooden handles to tools.

Because they no longer had to stand next to the animals they were hunting, people were able to kill larger animals from a distance.

TOOLS USED BY STONE AGE PEOPLE

The most important thing to Stone Age people was getting food No food means

you starve to death!

Tools helped them to get food easily

CAVE PAINTINGS

Stone Age people created cave paintings to show how important hunting was to them

Some caves found have had hundreds of paintings

Colors used most often were brown, yellow/tan, dark red, and black.

CAVE PAINTINGS

Around 1940, some kids were playing in a field in Lascaux, France.

They came across an entrance to a cave that had been covered with tree roots

The walls inside the cave were covered with these paintings made by Stone Age people…15,000 years ago!

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Review What was the most important thing to

Stone Age people? What were their cave paintings all

about?

COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Create a Venn diagram on a sheet of paper

Compare life in the Stone Age to life in 2014

You must have at least 4 facts in each part of the Venn diagram

WHAT’S A VENN DIAGRAM? Put facts about the

first subject (Life in the Stone Age) on one side of the Venn diagram

Put facts about the second subject (Life in 2013) on the other side of the Venn diagram

Put facts that both subjects have in common in the middle of the Venn diagram