In deze les zitten 20 slides, met interactieve quizzen, tekstslides en 3 videos.
Lesduur is: 45 min
Onderdelen in deze les
1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers
1.3 Early Farmers
Slide 1 - Tekstslide
What you can do after this lesson
explain when and why first agriculture began in the near east
explain how the first farmers discovered how to grow their own crops
explain the meaning of domestication
explain how the first farmers lived
Slide 2 - Tekstslide
Word Duty
Ice Age: periods in the past when areas of the world were covered by ice and it was very cold
Agriculture: a way of living where people grow their own crops and keep animals
Fertile Crescent: area around the rivers Tigris, Euphrates and Nile
Agricultural revolution: farming was introduced, a completely new way of living in prehistory
Domestication: tame animals for your own use
Pottery: an invention of farmers to store products
KEY WORDS
Slide 3 - Tekstslide
What do you remember about the hunter-gatherers?
Slide 4 - Woordweb
Introduction
In this section, we will see that prehistoric people changed from being hunter-gatherers to farmers. Farmers are people who grow crops and keep animals. This change did not happen overnight. It took thousands of years. But how did it start?
Slide 5 - Tekstslide
Slide 6 - Tekstslide
Climate change
Before > ice age
10.000 B.C. climate changed
In the Middle East they developed a new way of making food: agriculture
Source 1.3.1
The changes in temperature on Earth in prehistory. You can see that there have been several Ice Ages in the past.
Read 'The Fertile Crescent'. Write a short summary explaining what the Fertile Crescent is and why people stopped traveling.
Slide 9 - Open vraag
fertile
villages
grain
population
Nile
crescent moon
10,000
Slide 10 - Sleepvraag
Keeping animals
First farming + hunting animals
Hard to hunt animals if you stay in one place
6000 B.C. people in the Fertile Crescent learned how to tame animals > domestication
Breeding/keeping of cows, goats, pigs, sheep and horses
Source 1.3.3
The aurochs were bred to become smaller instead of bigger (present-day drawing).
Dogs were already domesticated by hunter-gatherers around 14,000 years ago, to help them during the hunt.
Slide 11 - Tekstslide
Slide 12 - Video
What do you remember about the early farmers
Slide 13 - Woordweb
Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:
so the people
in the Fertile Crescent
The population
needed to find
new farm land
was growing,
Slide 14 - Sleepvraag
Slide 15 - Video
Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:
around 5300 BC
appeared
The first farmers
in our region
Slide 16 - Sleepvraag
Agriculture in our region
The population in the Fertile Crescent kept growing > agriculture spread from the Middle East to South and Central-Europe.
Pottery is an example of new knowledge spread by the farmers.
Pottery was used for storing products like grain and seeds
People decorated pottery, those who decorated the pottery with straight lines belong to the Linear Pottery Culture > this culture is found in large parts of Europe.
Pottery from the Linear Pottery Culture (5400 - 4900 BC).
Source 1.3.5
Pottery from the Funnel Beaker Culture (2500 - 2200 BC).
Source 1.3.6
A reconstruction of a group of farmers with their crops and animals (present-day drawing).
Agriculture did not spread all the way from the Fertile Crescent to China or Latin America. Farming spontaneously began in more than one place in the world around the same time. People just needed soil and a good temperature for their crops to grow. In Latin America these first crops were not wheat or barley, but maize or manioc. Here, the first animals farmers kept were not goats and sheep, but alpacas.
Slide 17 - Tekstslide
Slide 18 - Video
Key word posters
What are you going to do?
In pairs you'll be given a key word from 8.4
Fill in the poster according to your key word, you'll have 15 minutes per poster.
You can use the text lessons, historiek.nl and wikipedia (only for background information)
When you're done:
With another group (different key word) you'll discuss the poster
Explain:
What your key word means, what the historical context is and why you associate your drawing with the key word.