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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 6

Early Humans and Agricultural Change

Learners follow modern humans from Africa across the world, then investigate how and where people began to farm, not once but in several places. They weigh the gains and costs of farming using skeletons, seeds and settlements as evidence, and finish by arguing about a real puzzle: a huge stone monument built before farming took hold.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 minutes
  • Early humans and farming check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, pick map regions, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Describe how hunter-gatherers lived and explain the evidence that modern humans first appeared in Africa and later spread across the world.
  • Explain domestication and identify several separate places where farming began, with the crops or animals domesticated there.
  • Analyze how farming changed human life, including both benefits and costs, using evidence.
  • Use archaeological evidence to evaluate a claim about the past and write a supported argument.

Lessons

  1. Hunter-gatherers and the human journey 7 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  2. Domestication in many places 7 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  3. What farming changed 7 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  4. The Göbekli Tepe puzzle 5 steps3 practiceabout 22 min
  5. Early humans and farming check 9 questions at the end

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