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By K.H.
The class started with a video on the amazon tribe, which was one of the uncontacted tribes. The first thing we did was discuss the video. We talked about how different they are from modern society, and how they resemble what we did to survive thousands of years ago. For example, these tribe members still hunt and gather.
Mr. Parke showed us a Powerpoint (slides 12-21) filled with pictures of Nomads. Some of the pictures were color photographs, and some were paintings. One of the pictures showed three women traveling with large baskets filled with crops, with their small children by their sides. Another picture showed plants, berries, and shelters that the Nomads eat and use. According to these slides, men were typically the hunters, and women were typically the child wranglers and gatherers. After a few Nomad slides, we saw some Agrarian slides. We saw a picture of a collection of trees being burnt to the ground, to isolate some farmland. There was also a slide of a painting of a man transporting his cows. Mr. Parke described how the cows could be used: for milk, for meat, the skin, and the horns. Mr. Parke also described how the cow was passing a bowel movement, for fertilizer.
After that, we began working on our Nomad and Settler comparison chart. Some of the students in our class chose to be Nomads, or Hunter Gatherers, or Agrarians, who are farmers. There are four jobs for each group, but some people have two jobs, because our class is smaller than some others.
This lesson is important to our learning because it teaches us about how humans survived before modern technology, even though some of these pictures are from the past 50 years. This has to do with Social Studies because this shows how humans survived since the beginning of our species. These tribal people are simply uncontacted with our modernized society.
I think that this was a very interesting lesson. I didn’t know that there were still people hunting and gathering to live, other than on shows like “naked and afraid.”
Key Terms: Neolithic Revolution, Post-Agricultural Revolution, Uncontacted, Agrarian, Nomad
The class started with a video on the amazon tribe, which was one of the uncontacted tribes. The first thing we did was discuss the video. We talked about how different they are from modern society, and how they resemble what we did to survive thousands of years ago. For example, these tribe members still hunt and gather.
Mr. Parke showed us a Powerpoint (slides 12-21) filled with pictures of Nomads. Some of the pictures were color photographs, and some were paintings. One of the pictures showed three women traveling with large baskets filled with crops, with their small children by their sides. Another picture showed plants, berries, and shelters that the Nomads eat and use. According to these slides, men were typically the hunters, and women were typically the child wranglers and gatherers. After a few Nomad slides, we saw some Agrarian slides. We saw a picture of a collection of trees being burnt to the ground, to isolate some farmland. There was also a slide of a painting of a man transporting his cows. Mr. Parke described how the cows could be used: for milk, for meat, the skin, and the horns. Mr. Parke also described how the cow was passing a bowel movement, for fertilizer.
After that, we began working on our Nomad and Settler comparison chart. Some of the students in our class chose to be Nomads, or Hunter Gatherers, or Agrarians, who are farmers. There are four jobs for each group, but some people have two jobs, because our class is smaller than some others.
This lesson is important to our learning because it teaches us about how humans survived before modern technology, even though some of these pictures are from the past 50 years. This has to do with Social Studies because this shows how humans survived since the beginning of our species. These tribal people are simply uncontacted with our modernized society.
I think that this was a very interesting lesson. I didn’t know that there were still people hunting and gathering to live, other than on shows like “naked and afraid.”
Key Terms: Neolithic Revolution, Post-Agricultural Revolution, Uncontacted, Agrarian, Nomad
Homework: Due Monday
1.Hunter-Gatherers Review Worksheet #1-8
2.Post Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Revolution PowerPoint to Edmodo (file:ppt) with notes in Nomad/Settler graphic organizer
3.Edmodo discussion
1.Hunter-Gatherers Review Worksheet #1-8
2.Post Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Revolution PowerPoint to Edmodo (file:ppt) with notes in Nomad/Settler graphic organizer
3.Edmodo discussion