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Understanding Food Sources and the Evolution of Early Societies

Stop and consider where your food comes from. What options do you have when hungry? This lesson explores the origins of civilization, focusing on hunter-gatherers, the Neolithic Revolution, and the domestication of animals. In groups, you’ll form tribes to simulate the collaborative survival strategies of prehistoric peoples. Learn about essential topics such as food sourcing, living environments, daily activities, and social structure within your tribe. Complete a fact chart through participation, ensuring every tribe member contributes to success.

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Understanding Food Sources and the Evolution of Early Societies

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  1. 10/30/12 BR: Stop and think for a minute about where your food comes from. If you are hungry what are some of your options to get food? Today: The Beginnings of Civilization - -All late work due 11/7/11, 11:59PM

  2. Important Ideas: Notes • Hunter Gatherers • Neolithic Revolution • Slash and burn farming • Domestication of animals - Yes, get this down in your notes!

  3. “Pick Your Tribe” • Most prehistoric people lived in small groups. These people worked together for their individual and group benefit. (1 is the loneliest number..) • Gather together in tribes of 4-5 • Decide on a name for your tribe and your tribe’s “symbol” (prehistoric tribes couldn’t write yet) • Decide on a leader • Each tribe must complete the following activity. • Tribal leader it is your job to make sure EVERY person in your tribe completes the activity

  4. Tribal Activity

  5. The Tribe Must Survive! • Scattered about the room are various facts cards about how Hunter-Gatherers lived. The fact cards cover the 4 areas of your chart: (1) Food, (2) Where they live (3) What they do during the day (4) Who tells them what to do. • All tribes must “hunt” or “gather” all of the information from the different fact cards • Every tribe member must transfer the information for the fact to their own chart

  6. The Tribe Must Survive! • Every member of the tribe must have • This chart completed

  7. Helpful hints.. • Your chart should have a total of 21 facts! (6 food, 5 for the other categories.) • All members of the tribe must complete the chart. • You will need to work together (or not) • Some of the cards have lots of information. How do you know what to write? Do you have to copy everything? No! Summarize! Look for underlined terms and bold words! • You must FINISH TODAY. All tribes submit their completed chart !

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