WebQuest_BeforeCivilization

= Before Civilization: a WebQuest on Early Humans = =|| Introduction|| Task|| Process|| Evaluation|| Conclusion|| Teacher Page||=

= Introduction = =  =

** Hunter-Gatherers **
Have you ever wondered how humans got to be the dominant species on the planet? Well it didn’t happen overnight. For a long time humans lived as hunter-gatherers, meaning they hunted animals, and gathered fruits, vegetables, and grains in order to survive, instead of farming or herding. The first humans lived this way until the invention of farming.

** Pre-History **
This part of the human story is seldom told, partly because very little is known about it. This all took place before history, in a period historians refer to as pre-history. Pre-history refers to anything that happened before writing was invented, which happened after (and because of) the invention of farming. It was in this period that humans spread out across the globe, starting in one continents and migrating across all the others (except Antarctica).

** Big Questions **
You are being assigned to a archaeological team. Your 5 member team each has a different specialty, you will combine your knowledge to analyze and complete different activities, with the goal of answering the following big questions: · Where did the first humans appear? · When and how did humans spread across the globe? · How did early humans survive? · How do Archaeologists (scientists who study things that people have left behind long ago) know so much about people who lived thousands of years ago?