Unit 1- Critical Concepts Covered: Geography, Continuity and Change, Multiple Perspectives, Causality, Evaluating Sources
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CA Framework Essential Questions:
How did the environment influence the migrations of early humans?
How did early humans adapt to new environments and climate changes?
How did people live by the gathering and hunting way of life?
Why did some people develop agriculture and pastoral nomadism?
What were the effects of these new ways of life?
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Body of Evidence:
Unit 1 Body of Evidence- Early Humans and Societies
(2 Weeks)
Assignments/Assessments
Geography- Students use the textbook to analyze how our environment affects humans both positively and negatively and how we affect our environment in both positive and negative ways.
Assessment: Exit Slip assignment
Multiple Perspectives/Evaluating Sources- Students read an article that gives multiple viewpoints on how early humans might have migrated to the Americas. They evaluate the perspectives and then analyze which they believe in more and why.
Assessment: Google Classroom Assignment
Continuity and Change/Causality- Students learn the changes in types of early humans throughout time and what caused them (brain size and types of tools from Paleolithic to Mesolithic and Neolithic eras).
Assessment: Verbal Discussions and Exit Slip
Causality/Geography/Continuity and Change- Students read about the Ice Ages and Early Migration and how they are related. How the Ice Age caused humans to migrate and change the way they live and how they adapted to their environments in order to survive.
Assessment: Google Classroom Assignment
Causality/Continuity and Change- Students learn what caused humans to change from being hunter-gatherers to becoming sedentary agriculturists and how it affected the human race and our population.
Assessment: Google Classroom Assignment
Final Assessment/Unit Test- Covers geography, causality, continuity and change, as well as other basic knowledge they need to know from the content standards.
Assessment: Unit 1 Exam- Multiple Choice and Short Answer