Studying History

Students will learn how historians use many kinds of clues to understand how people lived in the past.

• History is the study of the past.
• We can improve our understanding of people’s actions and beliefs through the study of history.
• Historians use clues from various sources to learn about the past.

History, culture, archeology, fossil, artifacts, primary source, secondary source

The First People

Students will learn how prehistoric people learned to adapt to their environment, to make simple tools, to use fire, and to use language.

• Scientists study the remains of early humans to learn about prehistory.
• Hominids and early humans first appeared in East Africa millions of years ago.
• Stone Age tools grew more complex as time passed.
• Hunter-gatherer societies developed language, art, and religion.

Prehistory, hominid, ancestor, tool, Paleolithic Era, Society, Hunter-gatherer, Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, Lucy,

Early Human Migration

Students will learn that as people migrated around the world they learned to adapt to new environments.

• People moved out of Africa as the earth’s climates changed.
• People adapted to new environments by making clothing and new types of tools.

Migrate, ice ages, land bridge, Mesolithic Era, “Survival of the Fittest”, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention”

Beginning of Agriculture

Students will learn how the development of agriculture brought great changes to human society.

• The first farmers learned to grow plants and raise animals in the Stone Age
• Farming changed societies and the way people lived.
• The five characteristics of a civilization= foundation to society

Neolithic Era, domestication, agriculture, megaliths, civilization,