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Content Area: Social Studies
Index: 6.3A Grade 8 CPI 1
Standard: 6.3 - World History
Strand: A - The Birth of Civilization to 1000 BCE
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will describe the physical and cultural changes that shaped the earliest human communities as revealed through scientific methods, including: · Early hominid development, including the development of language and writing · Migration and adaptation to new environments · Differences between wild and domestic plants and animals · Locations of agricultural settlements · Differences between hunter/gatherer, fishing, and agrarian communities
Grade: 8
Sample Activities:
· Emphasize the impact of agriculture technology on the growth of early civilizations. Not only did agricultural technology contribute to population growth and urbanization, it also stimulated trade between cities and the many pastoral tribes that roamed Eurasia during this time. The dynamic between pastoral and urban peoples is an important theme in prehistory and the early ancient world. One might even characterize the political history of Mesopotamia as a series of conflicts between hill people and valley farmers over the fertile land of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin. Students speculate on the importance of the first use of farming. How was it done? What tools were used? What was the first farmer’s name? Was the first farmer a Sumerian? The class can generate many questions before beginning to do some library or online research. Each student should formulate his/her own question(s) before starting the research.
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