Early Man

We are discovering with much enthusiasum the Timeline of Early Humans. After our half hearted look into dinosaurs...which is usually a homerun, I decided time to move on to Early Humans. I figured it would be overlooked. But, what do you know...the children are LOVING IT! Here's how I laid out the lesson:

Introduced the lesson with the book Prehistoric Times, made cave painting matching cards, set up a "cave" in the classroom for painting, put a tray out with sticks, string, stones for "tool making", gathered materials for fire making, the very popular Timeline of Early Humans...which has expanded into making timelines for everything! Checked out several Wooly Mammoth books from the library and found some figurines from
Micheal's for "cavemen"....it's been a good unit of study.

Next up will the the Wheel of Eras work and also a colored coded timeline made of felt to go a long with it. I would do the Black Ribbon lesson, but my class is all pretty young and I think color coding might be a bit more impactful.
     

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