The Stone Age Teacher's Toolbook - Performance Education

The Stone Age
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From the Stone Age nomads to farming villages...
Did we all come “Out of Africa”?
What can DNA tell us about human migration?
During the Ice Age, did people walk from Asia to Alaska?
Once folks learned how to make metal tools, the Stone Age was over!
The significance of the Agricultural Revolution.
Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class!
Lectures with graphic organizers, thinksheets and games galore.
Test: 53 questions.

The Stone Age includes:
• Out of Africa: Archaeologists, tracing DNA, migration to Central Asia.
• The Paleolithic era: What was life like during the Stone Age? Hunter-gatherer societies – the development of tools and the use of fire.
• The Agricultural Revolution: Where the earliest settlements arose – and why. How people adapted to the environment. Climate change. The domestication of plants and animals. The rise of farming villages.
• The world’s first civilizations: What did they have in common? Easy climate, good soil, rivers for irrigation. They were river cities.
• Timeline for six civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece, and Rome. Which civilizations existed at the same time? Compare and contrast all six.

The Test
53 questions

Simple to use
One book for the whole class.
No learning curve: Lessons are ready to reproduce.

Saves time
All the facts are included:
There is no need to use a textbook or reference books.
Your students will zip through the material.
Each lesson is 20 minutes in and out.
Perfect for block scheduling.

1. The Topics
What do archaeologists know? Pre-history, cave paintings, artifacts, radio carbon dating, tracing DNA.

The Paleolithic Era: Old Stone Age. Hunters & Gatherers
Archaeologists have found Stone Age settlements in East Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
A nomadic way of life. Living in clans. Development of stone tools: flint and fire.
The Ice Age: Migration from Central Asia to Europe. From Central Asia to North America: Bering Land Bridge

The Neolithic Age: New Stone Age. The Agricultural Revolution!
End of the Ice Age.
The world’s first farming communities. Domestication of plants and animals.
Draft animals, invention of the wheel, metal tools in copper and bronze.
Once folks learned how to make metal tools, the Stone Age was over!
The significance of the Agricultural Revolution.

2. The Lessons
Each lesson was designed to involve students at the moment and on the day of the state test.
Most of these lessons are brief lectures.
Reproducible lessons include . . .

Homework on the internet!
We provide the website, the questions, and the answers.
Students can actually see:
The Stone Age settlements.
The farming communities that arose as a result of the Agricultural Revolution.

3. The Test
Our test is tough: If your students can do well on our test, the state test should be a breeze.

TOOLBOOK: You need only one for the entire class.What are Teacher's Toolbooks? Click Here.

TOOLBOOK: You need only one for the entire class.
What are Teacher's Toolbooks? Click Here.