The Beginnings of Human Society

Students will be able to:

1. Read a political, physical, and thematic map.

2. Utilize Map Skills such as symbols, compass and direction, grid references, scale, and contours.

3. Explore a map of the World, identifying the seven continents 7 Continents of the World and physical features that promote civilization-building incorporating the Five Aspects of Civilization.

4. Identify, analyze, and evaluate the five themes of geography: Five Themes of Geography

• Location: Where is it located?

• Place: What's it like there?

• Human/Environment Interaction: What is the relationship between humans and their environment

• Movement: How and why are places connected with one another?

• Regions: How and why is one area similar to another?

5. Explore various areas of the world, read maps, and evaluate the potential for human civilization building in those areas.

Students will be able to:

1. Define artifact, primary source, secondary source, oral tradition, and archeology, explaining how each provides us with explanations for how ancients lived.

2. Explore and differentiate between Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures

3. Define hunters-gatherers

4. Explore importance of the:

   • use of fire & tools

   • development of language

   • agricultural revolution, crop growing, domestication of animals

   • trade and migration