The Neolithic Age

Grading: Two Grades for week. Class work grade based on Cornell Notes Scale. Test grade based on Criterion Grading for a Summary or Paragraph. I record a test grade for the summary based on content and a scale score grade based on the four possible points a student can earn. This give me information on writing development when I am having conferences with students, parents, or administration.

Goal: Students will develop Cornell Notes to answer: “How did the lives of people change during the Neolithic Age?The power point is set up with the lesson for four days where students will work to develop study skills by observing, making inferences, and taking notes. On the fifth day, students will write a summary for their Cornell Notes.

Why use a power point to present the material? 1. A power point provides easy access to on-line information that you might want to include in a lesson, but it just seems to hard. Hyperlinks provide easy access to this information. 2. A power point makes it easy to add information that you probably would not include in the lesson. For example, slide #9 includes a world map showing the location of the Middle East making the concept of the more understandable to students. It also reinforces an item from the end of the chapter assessment. Another example is slide 20 which includes the slide show on Catalhuyuk (from the on-line textbook). 3. It can help with pacing. For example, I have included a picture of the homework from the textbook to remind me to hand it out to the students. 4. The notes section provides a place to present complete information of my thinking when I developed the lesson.. You should go to the “Notes” View of the slide presentation to better understand the lesson. The notes can also be used to record feedback for how the lesson went to use for making improvements. 5. It makes it possible to provide students with a visual aid to help them understand complex material. For example, the concept of the “Agricultural Revolution” is very abstract—especially to city students—so I added a slide to tell more—hopefully in more child friendly language.

The Neolithic AgeQ: How did the lives of people change during the Neolithic Age?

What was the Agricultural Revolution?

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/agriculturalrevolution/

Brain Pop lesson is 3 min. 19 sec

What was the Agricultural Revolution?

Discovering our Past; page 63 paragraph 2

Historians call this settled farming during the Neolithic Age the Agricultural Revolution.

Agriculture is growing food

Discovering our Past; page 63 paragraph 2

The word revolution refers to any change that has an enormous effect on people’s ways of life.

What was the Agricultural Revolution?

“The Neolithic Revolution describes humankind’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture.”

I still don’t understand… Tell me more.

“Transition” means “change” so “Agricultural Revolution” means people quit

being nomads and settled down villages and started farming to get food.

Homework Assignment—Read chapter 3, lesson 2 pages 62-72 Review Questions 1-5 on page 49 of composition notebook --Study for test on chapter 3

REMEMBER FOCUS QUESTIONHow did the lives of people change during the Neolithic Age?

The Foundations of Wealth was created in England so the cartoon characters speak with British accents. The main characters show how life might have been 10,000 years ago. Each segment intertwines modern, real-world images to show how the economic concepts presented are relevant to today.

10,000 years ago

banks, paper money, stores, buses

Cars, modern clothes, factories, computersStamps, “mobiles”

30 years

Wild animals attack livestock

Hard winter → food shortages

floods No doctors

(domestic animals)

(not being able to replace animals)

starvation

No job choice

Subsistence economy

= a quarter of the worlds population

25%Poor countries up to 95% work on land

Sell to buy the things that they need and want: cars, trucks, new fencing

Food is a major export of the U.S.more

need survive

The Neolithic AgeQ: How did the lives of people change during the Neolithic Age?

What was the Agricultural Revolution?

Explain: People began to domesticate plants and animals.

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/agriculturalrevolution/

Brain Pop lesson is 3 min. 19 seconds

Explain: People began to domesticate plants and animals.

People selected seeds from the best plants to cultivate (grow) so their plants produced more food

To adapt, or change, plants for the benefit of humans

Discovering our Past; page 64 paragraph 1“By 8,000 B.C., people in Southwest Asia began raising wheat and barley.”

Explain: People began to domesticate plants and animals.

Discovering our Past; page 64 paragraph 1“By 8,000 B.C., . . . They also domesticated pigs, cows, goats, and sheep.”

The dog was actually domesticated during the Old Stone Age. Dogs could help herd animals.

Producing more than you need just to survive.

Using all of your time and energy to grow enough food to survive with nothing left over

They don’t have enough energy when they do the work they need to do to survive.

Divide the labor;Everyone does only one job

division of labor

Everyone became better at their jobs

Better crops and a surplus

Progress and prosperity; More variety in foods

More affordable good; cheaper products to buy

Our textbook calls this“systematic agriculture”

Name Soc. St. P-_____ # _____ DateThe Neolithic AgeQ: How did the lives of people change during the Neolithic Age?

Continue Cornell Notes on the same page

What was the Agricultural Revolution?

Explain: People began to domesticate plants and animals.

http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/agriculturalrevolution/

Brain Pop lesson is 3 min. 19 seconds

What examples can you find to support “lives of the people changed during the Neolithic Age”?

What examples can you find to support “lives of the people changed during the Neolithic Age”?

People began to settle down into villages

People in SW Asia began to raise wheat and barley (also called grain or “corn”)

People began to domesticate pigs, cows, sheep, and goats for human use

People grew surplus food

Food surplus → Larger families

What examples can you find to support “lives of the people changed during the Neolithic Age”?

People began to settle down into villages

Job specialization developed—people became expert in one area

More products available to trade

Hierarchy-social classes-and beginning of government developed

Each family specialized in what they did best and production increased because they got better at their jobs (their skills increased).

exchangessurplus

surplus

1. Everyone will do what they do best so it will speed up production.

2. You will not waste time setting things up and putting them away.

3. Everyone will get better with practice and production will continue to increase.

Everyone got very good at their jobs, production increase, and they met their goal of 20 shawls in two weeks.

They swapped their surplus for goods from the trader.

1. You can trade for things you can’t produce yourself..

2. It is another step along the path to prosperity.

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Name Soc. St. P-_____ # _____ DateThe Neolithic AgeQ: How did the lives of people change during the Neolithic Age?

Locate your Cornell Notes and review with friend.

What was the Agricultural Revolution?

Explain: People began to domesticate plants and animals.

Summary______________________________________________________________________________

What examples can you find to support “lives of the people changed during the Neolithic Age”?