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    1. The document discusses prehistory and the Stone Age, focusing on what life may have been like during this period. 2. It defines prehistoric as the time before written records and breaks down the Stone Age into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. 3. The Stone Age is called this because the earliest humans used stone to make tools, and stone was the primary material used for tools throughout the Stone Age.

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    1- Prehistory

    Subject: UAE Social Studies


    Year: 6
    Topic: 1.1 – Prehistory
    Lesson Objective: To analyse and examine what life may have been like
    in the Stone Age.
    Success Criteria: To be able to comprehend the term ‘prehistoric’ and
    identify why it is called the Stone Age.

    Steps and Activities:


    Step 1: Starter (5 mins)
    Step 2: Watch a Video (5 mins)
    Step 3: Explanation and Discussion (10 mins)
    Step 4: Reading Comprehension in Notebooks (10 mins)
    Step 5: Plenary – KWL (5 minutes)
    Learning Objective
    • To analyse and examine what life may have been like in the Stone
    Age.

    Learning Outcome
    • To be able to to comprehend the term ‘prehistoric’ and identify why it
    is called the Stone Age.
    What does prehistoric mean?
    Prehistoric comes from ‘pre-history’.

    It means a time before written records


    existed.

    There is no recorded history of this time


    that we can read, just clues left behind
    that archaeologists have to interpret.
    When was the Stone Age?
    The Stone Age covers a huge period of time, over 3 million years!

    The Stone Age starts from when the first human like animals came into
    existence. The earliest evidence has been found in Africa.

    Early humans arrived in Britain more than 800,000 years ago but
    Britain has not been constantly lived in since that time due to climate
    changes.

    The ice and the cold temperatures during the last period of time known as
    the Ice Age meant that early humans left Britain in search of warmer
    climates.

    At this time Britain was not an island so they could walk across the land
    into Europe and Africa.
    The Stone Age is broken down
    into smaller time periods
    Palaeolithic – around 3,000,000 BC

    During this long period of time, the earliest hominids (humans or close
    relatives of humans), Homo habilis, who used simple stone tools, slowly
    developed into the modern humans we call Homo sapiens. Britain was still
    connected by land to France and Denmark.

    Mesolithic – around 10,000BC

    People led largely nomadic lives as hunter-gatherers, constantly on the


    move in order to survive. It was during this time that Britain became an
    island.

    Neolithic – around 4,500 BC – 2,400BC

    This is the time that farming began, pottery was developed and villages
    were built.
    Why is it called the Stone Age?

    The Stone Age is so called because the earliest humans used stone to make
    tools with a sharp edge or point.

    Stone was the material predominantly


    used for tools throughout the Stone Age.
    Which countries were populated?
    Today there are over seven billion people in the world (7,000,000,000).
    Even at the peak of the stone age it was likely that there were less than
    five million (5,000,000).

    About 2 million years ago Homo habilis appeared in eastern Africa.


    Which countries were populated?
    About 1.5 million years ago Homo erectus were living in the Southern
    Caucasus and Northern China.
    Which countries were populated?
    By 400,000 years ago the early human population had spread to
    Indonesia and Europe.
    Which countries were populated?
    By 27,000 years ago they had set foot in Australia, Poland, Japan and
    Siberia.
    Which countries were populated?
    It wasn’t until around 10,000 BC that early humans reached North and
    South America via the Bering land bridge that at that time connected
    Siberia and North America.

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