Warm-up: Why was building a civilization along a river so important? Name as many uses for that water as you can
Planners
- Vocabulary
- Chapter 2, Section 1 Packet
Picture of the day
Euphrates River
Daily Did you Know: Babylon, the capital of the ancient Mesopotamian country of Babylonia, was built along the Euphrates River
Warm-up: How did farming encourage early man to stay in one place? What happened when early man stayed in one place?
Planners
- Go over quiz
- Chapter 2 Explore and Identify worksheet
- Class website homework
Picture of the day: Tigris River, just outside Diyarbakır, Turkey
Daily Did you Know: Around 7,000 years ago changing weather patterns forced people to migrate from the Arabian Peninsula Northward in search of water. Decreasing rainfall meant that important lakes and streams, critical to life, were no longer available.
Planners
- Quiz
Warm-up: Write down 3 facts that you learned in this first part of our early man unit. Make sure your name is on your warm-up sheet to turn in.
Picture of the day: None due to half day
Daily Did you Know: None due to half day
Planners:
- Warm-up: What is the difference between fossils and artifacts? Give an example to help explain.
- Trasketball review
- Turn in missing work
Picture of the day: A model of a Neanderthal man in a German museum
Daily Did you Know::The average life expectancy for Neanderthal was just over 30 years of age.....
Planners
- Warm-up: When watching the video of the Lascaux Cave, name some of the problems that Cro-Magnum man would have faced when trying to paint?
- Chapter 1 Notes
- Timeline
- Study Guide, Quiz Thursday
- Mock Vote
Picture of the day: Copper/Tin in raw form, then turned into tools and weapons
Daily Did you Know: Bronze has to be made by heating the copper until it is liquid and adding tin. The molten bronze can then be cast into a wider range of shapes. Bronze is also very hard and long lasting. Controlling where copper and tin were mined, or controlling who got bronze tools, could be an important way to gain wealth and power.
Planners
-Warm-up: Name at least 3 things that fire accomplished for early man?
-Finish Frozen Man Reading
-Turn in Section 3
Picture of the day
Frozen Man’s Tools
Daily Did you Know: There is no known cause of Otzi's death, scientist believe that he may have died from exposure, perhaps a ritual sacrifice, or died at a lower elevation and was transported to a burial mound of rocks
Planners
- Warm-up: If you were a nomad, name 5 things early man would want to take with him
- Frozen Man Reading
- Turn in Section 1 and 2 if not yet
- Chapter 1, Section 3 due Friday
Picture of the day
Frozen Man
Daily Did you Know: Frozen Man, or Ötzi, was probably a bearded, furrow faced man. He was about 5 foot, 3 inches tall and weighed 110 pounds.
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