PREHISTORY FOR CHILDREN

PREHISTORY STARTS 5 MILLIONS YEARS AGO AND FINISHES WITH THE WRITING INVENTION 3.500 YEARS B.C.

THE PALEOLITHIC - 300.000 YEARS AGO

Main features: 

1. Nomads
2. Hunters and collecters
3. Living in caves, in tribes of 20-30 people
4. Cave paintings
5. Discover fire :by  rubbing a stick or rubbing two stones
6. Means "old stone"
7. Appeared the first stone tools 

THE NEOLITHIC - 10.000 YEARS AGO   

Main features:

     1. Means "New stone"

     2. Sedentaries

     3. Main inventions:   The wheel, sailing, pottery and ceramics, agriculture, cattle raising, hand mill, loom

     4. Discovering metals at the end of the era

     5. Megalitic constructions

THE AGE OF METALS - 5.000 YEARS AGO

1. Building cities with big walls to protect them, starting the "civilitation"
2. Commerce
3. Pottery trading
4. Metallurgic
5. Divided in:

         - Copper age 5.000 BC

         - Bronze age 3.000 BC

         - Iron age 2.000 BC

VOCABULARY TO BE LEARNT

ADJECTIVES

• Nomad - nómada
• Hunter - cazador
• Sedentary - sedentario
• Tall
• short
• clever

NOUMS

• Cave - cueva
• Stone - piedra
• Tribe - tribu
• Paint - pintura
• Paleolithic - paleolitico
• Neolithic - neolitico
• Age - edad
• Metal -metal
• Hand-mill : molino de mano
• Loom - telar
• Bone - hueso
• Wood - madera
• Pottery - cerámica
• Wheel - rueda
• Sailing - navegación
• Cattle-raising - ganaderia
• Copper - bronce
• Iron - hierro
• Bronze - bronce
• City - ciudad
• Civilitation - civilización
• Trading - comercio
• Skin - piel
• Animal - animal
• Tool - herramienta
• Cloth - ropa, vestimenta
• Dinosaur - dinosaurio
• Cow - vaca
• Sheep - oveja
• Dog - perro

VERBS

• To live - vivir
• To appear - aparecer
• To hunt
• To feed
• to cluster
• To cook
• To sleep

Links of the unit. Videos

First video introduction of the unit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLFGra2TiTE&t=60s

Video about the three prehistoric ages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6wsvyNvtUY&t=193s

Activities. Prehistoric Worksheet 

https://www.pinterest.es/pin/355502964340536529/

Dinosaurs song "We are dinosaurs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82ooOpJLzr8

Activity: filling the gaps

/cs/8990/FILLING_THE_GAPS.docx

Activity: drawing prehistory

View /cs/8990/drawing_prehistory.doc