This lesson contains 29 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 50 min
Items in this lesson
1. The Age of Hunters and Farmers
1.3 Early Farmers
Slide 1 - Slide
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.
Slide 2 - Slide
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.