Partner 1:___________________________ Partner 2:_____________________________ Partner 3:_________________________ Partner 4:__________________________ Interactive Reading Guide (A): Tools for Selected Biome Purpose: Students work together to discover what tools the early hominids may have needed as they moved into their new biome. Examine the document and answer the questions together. Study the assigned biome (Document C, D, E, F or G). Take turns reading the characteristics aloud. Then read the following questions and record the answers together. Imagine you are an early human living in the Neolithic Age. How is your new biome different than your living conditions in Africa (the home that your ancestors had lived in for thousands of years)? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How will you survive in this new biome? In order to survive, you need to find food, clothing and shelter within your new biome. Consider carefully the available resources. What will you do for: a) food ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ b) clothing ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ c) shelter _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You will need tools, of course! What kinds of tools will you need in order to find food and make clothing or shelter? Remember, this is the Neolithic Age so you don’t have electricity and so cannot use tools that require power. You also must make these tools out of things that you can find in your biome. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How are the tools that are necessary to survive in your biome different than the tools that they would have been needed to survive in Africa? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ After viewing Document H: What was surprising or not surprising about the tools that were actually available and used by the Paleolithic and Neolithic people? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Image Guide: Paleolithic and Neolithic Tools Name ______________________ Period ____ Purpose: Students examine the images closely and complete the following questions. Look at the images on Document I. Pick three of the tools and fill out the following information. Tool number: ________________ What materials do you think were used to make this tool? ______________________________________________________ What do you think was the purpose of this tool?__________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think that this tool would have been useful? Explain. ____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tool number: ________________ What materials do you think were used to make this tool? ______________________________________________________ What do you think was the purpose of this tool?__________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think that this tool would have been useful? Explain. ____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tool number: ________________ What materials do you think were used to make this tool? ______________________________________________________ What do you think was the purpose of this tool?__________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think that this tool would have been useful? Explain. ____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Look at the images on Document K. Pick three of the tools and fill out the following information. Tool number: ________________ What materials do you think were used to make this tool? ______________________________________________________ What do you think was the purpose of this tool?__________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think that this tool would have been useful? Explain. ____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tool number: ________________ What materials do you think were used to make this tool? ______________________________________________________ What do you think was the purpose of this tool?__________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think that this tool would have been useful? Explain. ____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tool number: ________________ What materials do you think were used to make this tool? ______________________________________________________ What do you think was the purpose of this tool?__________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think that this tool would have been useful? Explain. ____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Look again at the images on Document J and Document K and answer the following questions. Describe the differences between Paleolithic and Neolithic tools: _______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Describe the similarities between Paleolithic and Neolithic tools: _______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ After reading Document M, answer the following questions. Thinking about the similarities between tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras. In what ways were the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras similar? 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Imagine a biome that you think might exist (on another planet or an unexplored part of our planet). Describe your fictional biome in the space below. Include details about weather, animals, plants, and how it is different than or similar to biomes you studied during the unit (feel free to add pictures, etc. on separate pages). Vocabulary you might want to use: tundra, savanna, rainforest, desert, forest _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Think about what you learned about how humans interact with biomes. Imagine a group of humans trying to survive in your new biome. How will these humans survive and find food, clothing and shelter within your new biome? Consider carefully the available resources. What will these humans do for: a) food ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ b) clothing ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ c) shelter _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ These humans will need tools, of course! The humans will have to make tools out of things they can find in the new biome. Describe tools you think the new humans might develop. Include details about what the tools might be made of, and how they would meet their food, clothing, and shelter needs. Vocabulary you might want to use: hand-­‐axe, spear, arrowhead, grinding stone, sickle, plough, hoe _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Review the documents used during the thread. Find at least 3 examples of details from the document that you used during this assignment to create your new biome. Explain what detail you used and how you thought about that detail in order to make a decision. 1. Detail/Text Evidence: 2. Detail/Text Evidence: 3. Detail/Text Evidence: 4. Detail/Text Evidence: How I used this… How I used this… How I used this… How I used this…