use 1.2 Hunter-gatherers

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers

1.2 Hunter-gatherers

Which Age are we studying in this Unit?

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Summary Lesson 1.1: Measuring Time

Prehistory is the period in the past before people could_______.

We can divide Prehistory into three smaller periods:

_____________, _____________ and _____________. These ages started and ended at different ___________ in different ____________.

We also talk about exact periods of time, like:

1000 years: ______________

100 years:   ______________

10 years:     ______________

A good way to measure time is a ______________. The most widely used calendar is the _____________ one. It counts _____________ and _____________ from when Jesus was born.

The letters BC stand for _________________

The letters AD stand for _________________. This means _____________________.

Something put in the wrong time period is called an __________________. The word "chron" is Greek for _________.

What is this lesson about?

Hunter-gatherers hunted wild animals and collected edible things from nature. We use cave paintings and other sources to study how these people lived. In prehistory, man did not write things down. Prehistory means: before writing.

What you will learn in 

this lesson

• what are hunter-gatherers?
• what are sources?
• why are sources important to learn about prehistoric people?
• why did hunter-gatherers live in small groups?
• why did hunter-hatherers have only few belongings?
• how did hunter-gatherers adapt to the climate?

  

Word Duty

Cave paintings: paintings made in caves by prehistoric humans

Prehistory: time in history before people could read and write

Sources: remains from the past

Hunting-gathering: a way of living where people hunt animals and gather food like plants and berries to survive

Nomads: people who do not live in a fixed place

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KEY WORDS

Read page 29 and 30 - What do you think - How would hunters in prehistoric times hunt for a wild horse? Choose one of the options below.

1. I would use an ambush to trap it so I could get close enough to kill it.
2. We could work together with a group of hunters, hunting the horse.
3. I would try to kill it by stabbing it with a spear.
4. I would shoot at it with a bow and arrow from a distance.

Write down why you prefer this method of hunting.

3. Read 

"The cave paintings of Lascaux "(p.11). 

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animals

bow and arrow

17,000

archaeologists

Lascaux

cave paintings

bulls

Sources are important because they give us:

1. water
2. information
3. solutions
4. a narrative

written 

sources

unwritten sources

Drag the pictures to the correct place

Read "sources of knowledge" page 31.
Write down 3 examples of a written source

Write down 3 examples of a unwritten source

You have found this log boat
what does this tell you about the people that made it?

Look at source 14 (p.29) The hunter-gatherers might have lived like this. Why do we not know this for sure?

In groups of hunter-gatherers, tasks were divided between men and women. What was the responsibility of each group?

Complete the sentences by making the correct combinations

1. The hunter-gatherers moved around, 

2. The men hunted animals 

3. The women gathered berries, nuts, mushrooms 

4. They lived in small 

5. They had to adapt 

groups of 20-50 people.

and other edible things.

they did not live in one place.

to their surroundings.

or went fishing.

The things you could find to eat during every season were different.
Find a picture of an item you could collect in nature during the spring.
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The things you could find to eat during every season were different.
Find a picture of an item you could collect in nature during the autumn.
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What sort of food did the hunter-gatherers most likely eat, all the year round?

Find a picture and upload it here.

Write down one question about something from this lesson that you find difficult.

Research task 

1. Read again - 1.1 creation stories (page 20)
2. Explain to your neighbour: What the text is about? In one sentence 
3. Revers, what does your neighbour think? 
4. Read 1.1 science (page 21 )
5. Explain to your neighbour: What is the text about?
   
6. Revers, what does your neighbour think? 

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congratulations

Draw in your notebook your own cave painting

What are you going to add to your cave painting:

1. What or who is important today in the Netherlands? 
2. Maybe some great achievements of mankind? 

use: your own notebook, pencils, examples of images on the internet. 

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