1.3 Early Farmers

1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers
1.3 Early Farmers

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This lesson contains 29 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

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1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers
1.3 Early Farmers

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What is this lesson about?
When the last Ice Age was over, prehistoric people in the Middle East started to become farmers. They no longer moved around but lived in one place. Here they could grow crops and keep animals. Pottery was invented, to store things.


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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 3 - Slide

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


Link to WRTS wordlist for all the other difficult words: WRTS HISTORY








KEY WORDS

Slide 4 - Slide

Write down the correct definition of both words:

1. change:

2. continuity:


Slide 5 - Open question

What is a different word for agriculture?

Slide 6 - Open question

For each statement, choose the correct answer.
1. prehistoric people have lived as hunter-gatherers for thousands of years

This is an example of:




A
change
B
continuity

Slide 7 - Quiz

For each statement, choose the correct answer.
2. There have been several ice ages in the past.

This is an example of:




A
change
B
continuity

Slide 8 - Quiz

For each statement, choose the correct answer.
3. hunter-gatherers became farmers during prehistory.


This is an example of:




A
change
B
continuity

Slide 9 - Quiz

For each statement, choose the correct answer.
4. For the last 10,000 years, there were no ice ages.

This is an example of:




A
change
B
continuity

Slide 10 - Quiz

Put the events in the correct chronological order
Plant the seeds of grain.
Make small fields for the grain to grow.
Collect grain seeds in the wild.
Now you grow your own grain crops.
Save some grain seeds for the next year.

Slide 11 - Drag question

fertile
villages
grain
population
Nile
crescent moon
10,000

Slide 12 - Drag question

The domestication of pigs began 80,000 years ago.




A
TRUE
B
FALSE

Slide 13 - Quiz

The first animals to be domesticated were goats and sheep.




A
TRUE
B
FALSE

Slide 14 - Quiz

Animals were selected for their useful characteristics.




A
TRUE
B
FALSE

Slide 15 - Quiz

It took hundreds of years before the animals were tame.




A
TRUE
B
FALSE

Slide 16 - Quiz

Pigs were selected for the amount of flesh they had.




A
TRUE
B
FALSE

Slide 17 - Quiz

Explain the joke, and use the word "domestication"
in your answer.

Slide 18 - Open question

Slide 19 - Video

Farmers
Hunter-Gatherers
moving from place to place
finding grain, fruit and vegetables
hunting animals and fishing
small groups
only few possessions that can be carried
Farming was a big change in the way prehistoric man lived. So what changed exactly?
Drag each change  to the correct place in the table.

large groups
pottery
domesticating animals
growing your own crops
living in one place
(= settling)

Slide 20 - Drag question

Pottery was used for storage. Can you name three things the early farmers would have stored in this new invention?

Slide 21 - Open question

Name at least three things you need to make pottery.

Slide 22 - Open question

Look at source 1.23 in Agriculture in our region (Theory F). Write down at least three characteristics of the first farmers you can see in this drawing.


Slide 23 - Open question

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 24 - Drag question

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 25 - Drag question

Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:

had pottery 
shaped like a funnel
that was  
The builders   
of the Hunebedden  

Slide 26 - Drag question

Create correct English sentences by dragging the words at the bottom to the correct place in the sentence:

to decorate  
used straight lines 
Linear Pottery culture  
their pottery
  People from the   

Slide 27 - Drag question

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

Slide 28 - Open question

congratulations

Slide 29 - Slide