OP 1 Human Origins

Students will explain how we learn about prehistoric societies and how early humans improved their lives.

Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS) Benchmark Alignment:

Mastery:

SS.6.W.2.1: Compare the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers with those of settlers of early agricultural communities.

Introduce

SS.6.W.1.1: Use timelines to identify chronological order of historical events.

SS.6.W.1.2: Identify terms (decade, century, epoch, era, millennium, BC/BCE, AD/CE) and designations of time periods.

SS.6.W.1.3: Interpret primary and secondary sources.

SS.6.W.1.4: Describe the methods of historical inquiry and how history relates to the other social sciences.

SS.6.W.1.5: Describe the roles of historians and recognize varying historical interpretations (historiography).

SS.6.W.1.6: Describe how history transmits culture and heritage and provides models of human character.

Discovery Education Techbook:

Chapter 3: Human Origins

What makes us “human”?

1.1: Rise of Humans

1.2: Early Humans

KIM Terms:

Ch. 1.1: artifact, chronological, civilization, climate, culture, technology

Ch. 1.2: Beringia, Fertile Crescent, hunter-gatherer, migration, region