warm-up write down the lesson name and date. write down the swbat: –complete a raft activity based...
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Warm-Up• Write down the lesson name and date.• Write down the SWBAT:
– Complete a RAFT activity based on playing the role of an early human migrating to another part of the world
• Answer the following in your binder:– What does the term “migrate” mean? If you don’t
know, take an educated guess.– List reasons people move to different schools,
towns, states, or countries.
Early Human Migration
People Move out of Africa (main idea)
OlduvaiGorge
MIGRATION
• Migration: The act of moving from one place to another with the intent to live in another place permanently or for a longer period of time.
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LESSON 1 – OUT OF AFRICA: WHY EARLY HUMANS SETTLED AROUND THE WORLD
Early Human Migration
The Ice Ages- What are the ice ages?
- About 1.6 million years ago many places began to experience freezing weather. These freezing times are called ice ages.
- How do you think early humans adapted to this ice age?
Push vs. Pull Factors
• Push factors: Negative reasons for wanting to leave a place (emigrate). Examples of push factors are a lack of food or water, natural disasters, a lack of jobs, and wars.
• Pull factors: Positive reasons for wanting to move to a place (immigrate). Examples of pull factors are more food and water, a better climate, higher wages, and freedom. Source: “What is Human Migration?” 2005. National Geographic Society. Available online at:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/09/g68/migrationguidestudent.pdf
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LESSON 1 – OUT OF AFRICA: WHY EARLY HUMANS SETTLED AROUND THE WORLD
When did early humans settle new lands?
• Draw arrows on your world map showing the following migrations of early humans:– Ancestors of modern humans began migrating 2
million years ago the entire process took hundreds of thousands of years
– 100,000 years ago = began to migrate from East Africa to southern and northern Africa and southeast Asia.
– From there to Australia and Europe– Finally from northern Asia to North America and
finally South America. – By 9,000 B.C.E., humans lived on all continents of the
world except Antarctica
How did they get there?• People moved out of
Africa as the Earth’s climates changed. (main idea)
What is a land bridge?
It is a strip of land connecting two continents.
Beringia: between China and North America
Indo-Australia: between Indonesia and Australia
Beringia
Indo-Australia
Early Humans Adapt to New Environments
• Why did humans build shelters?– Because they
migrated to colder climates.
• Types of shelters?– Caves, underground
pit houses, tents made of animal skins and bones, wooden, stone structures
Pithouse
cave
More Early Human Houses
Early Human Clothing• How did people adapt
to new environments?– They made new
clothing and new types of tools.
• How did they make clothing?– They sewed animal
skins together to make clothing for protection.
Push/Pull Activity1.Read the “Early Humans Settle Around the World”
article2.On the next page, read each situation and
determine the reason for the migration and whether it was because of a push or pull factor.
3.Make sure you are able to explain your answers.4.We will go over this activity as a class in 15
minutes.
RAFT Activity• Complete for homework, if needed• Role, Audience, Format, Topic• R = you are an early human writing a journal entry in
the year 15,000 B.C.E.• A = your relatives or archaeologists that will dig up
your journal thousands of years from the time you write it
• F = journal entry (Dear Journal, Dear Diary, etc.)• T = explain where you live and why you and your
family might migrate based on push and pull factors (include where you would go, how you would get there, why it’s a smart idea to migrate, how you would have to adapt to your new environment etc.)