1.1 The First Humans -TEACH-

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Discuss, search and answer:
How do we know how Prehistoric people lived?
Start-of-the-lesson group task:


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Make groups of 2 or 3
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You hand in 1 joint answer.

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Start-of-the-lesson group task:
One answer per group:
How do we know how Prehistoric people lived?

Slide 2 - Open question

1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers
1.1 The first humans

Slide 3 - Slide

Slide 4 - Video

Can you put the ten Ages in the correct order?

Slide 5 - Drag question

Jagers en Boeren
Regenten en Vorsten
Grieken en Romeinen
Monniken en Ridders
Steden en Staten
Ontdekkers en Hervormers
Pruiken en Revoluties
Burgers en Stoommachines
Wereldoorlogen
Televisie en Computers

Slide 6 - Drag question

In the next task you need to drag the 
Dutch names to the top boxes and the 
English names to the bottom boxes.


Slide 7 - Slide

De Tijd van:
The Age of:
Ken je de namen van de eerste vier tijdvakken....
ook in het Engels?
Monniken &
Staten
Steden &
Romeinen
Jagers &
Ridders 
Grieken &
Boeren 
Greeks &
Farmers
Hunters &
Knights
Cities &
States
Monks &
Romans

Slide 8 - Drag question

Slide 9 - Video

Where do humans come from?

For thousands of years, people answered this question by explaining that a god or a number of gods created humans. A well-known example of this is the story of Adam and Eve. These first man and woman were made by God and lived in paradise until they ate from the forbidden tree. A story like this is an example of a creation narrative.

But scientists have another explanation about the origin of humans. They studied the bones of Lucy and learned that the first humans lived in Africa and that they looked completely different from how we look today. Still, these scientists say that they were our ancestors because they walked on two legs. So they must have changed if they had become like us. How is that possible?

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden by Wenzel Peter, 19th century, Vatican Museum

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Theory of evolution

This was also the most important question that the biologist Charles Darwin asked himself around 1850. On his travels he discovered that species change over time. They adapt themselves to their environment in order to survive. A polar bear is white because it lives in the snow and a giraffe has a long neck to eat leaves on high trees. This process of adaption can take millions of years.
Darwin’s idea is called the theory of evolution. He also wrote that humans and apes have the same ancestors. It took three million years for these first humans to change into the people that we are today. In the family tree below you can see the different human-like ancestors that used to be alive.

Charles Darwin, 1809 - 1882

This is the human family tree, with the different species of early humans.

The Latin word Homo means ‘man’. When we talk about humans we use this word. For example: Homo habilis was ‘the tool using man’ and Homo erectus ‘the upright man’. We modern humans are Homo sapiens sapiens which means ‘very wise man’.

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Slide 12 - Video

Slide 13 - Slide

Create the correct story of the video by dragging the texts to the correct place.

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Europe suffered from an Ice Age while Africa became hot and dry.


Neanderthals became extinct.

1 million years ago Heidelbergensis lived 
in Europe and Africa
30,000 years ago Homo Sapiens migrated from Africa 
to Europe
The climate changed:
Homo Sapiens is the only remaining species of humans.
Heidelbergensis could not use imagination as we can
European Heidelbergensis evolved into Neanderthals and African Heidelbergensis into Homo Sapiens

Slide 14 - Drag question

Slide 15 - Slide

Read the text "Out of Africa"

Describe the Out of Africa theory in your own words.

Slide 16 - Open question

congratulations

Slide 17 - Slide