A Walk

Through
History
PROJECT BASED LEARNING
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1st ESO ______

Name _________________________________________
Date _______________

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MAP
We have a challenge: The famous archaeologist
Indiana Jones has found a number of tools in an important
archaeological site and asks us for help in order to classify
these tools and identify the ways of life in prehistory.
Do you want to become an archaeologists and be part
of the Indiana Jones team?

Final Product: Let's design a a poster with the

characteristics of the diferent prehistoric periods:
Paleolithic, Neolithic and Metal ages.

Learning outcomes: This project is a walk to the past! Our task is

to go back to where we all started, our origins!!! How did our ancestors
live? It is going to be a trip to Prehistory. We will find out how they lived in
the three periods included, Paleolitic, Neolitic and the Age of metals. We
need to be experts to explain to the whole class how they lived in each
period (what did they eat, what tools did they use, what did they discovered ...). So, get on with it!

Competences:
Communicative competence
Artistic and cultural competence
Digital competence
Learning to learn competence
Autonomy, initiative and decision taking competence
Social and civic competence

Main Contents:
 Analysis of the way Prehistoric people lived (social organization,
economy, beliefs, art, etc.) through their remains.
 Assessment of the factors that made possible the development of
Paleolitic to Neolitic and to Metal Ages and identification of the
relation cause – effect in those phenomena.
 Identification of the cultural legacy to the present-day world.

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Name:_________________________________________________

SEE WHAT’S UP!

HISTORY? WHAT FOR??

What is “history”?
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Why is it important to understand history?
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What is history useful for?
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Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false ones:

a.- History is the study of human development. __________

b.- History is the study of the planets. __________

c.- History studies only old civilizations. __________

d.- History also talks about human nature. __________

e.- History is only useful to learn about the past. __________

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SOURCES

Where do historians get information from? All these things give them information. Write the
right word below each image.

written text - drawings - map - furniture - tables

pictures/photos - legends - tales - buildings - pottery

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PREHISTORY AND HISTORY

A TIMELINE. Read and answer

Prehistory is the longest phase of human life when there are no written documents so it has to be
studied from archeological sources. Archeological sources are remains from old ages. Prehistory is
a very long period and changes were very slow.
History is the phase of human life when written sources appeared, around 3.000 BC. It is studied
from these written sources but also from archeological remains.

When does history begin? In ___________

What happened? Humans invented ___________________.
Why do you think year 0 is important? What happened then? ________________ Christ was born.

BC Before Christ AD Anno Domini

A Timeline
Design a timeline to show the ages and the main events in prehistory and history. Be creative. Use
your imagination to present it.

This is the band your teacher will use to assess your timeline.

CRITERIA MARK
1. Presentation: Effort and originality /2
2. Layout tidiness and clarity /2
3. Dates: Basic dates and other important dates. /2
4. Information: Main Events and other important events in each period /2
5. Ages: Distinction between history and prehistory and different ages within
/2
each period. There is a time-space relationship (scale up to a certain point)
TOTAL /10

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Name:_________________________________________________

LET’S INVESTIGATE – PREHISTORY

II.- Timeline

1.- Look at the timeline and write down the dates, the periods and the events

Periods Events Dates

Prehistory Discovery of agriculture 8000 BC
Metal Ages Invention of writing 5000 BC
Neolithic Discovery of metal tools 3000 BC
Paleolithic Christ’s birth Year 0

BC AD
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HISTORY
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Year ________ year _______ Year _______ _______

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III.- Human Beings. From chimpanzees to human beings.

jaw j______ _____________

tool t______ _____________
brain b______
_____________ forehead s______
_____________
flat f ______ _____________

Which changes happened to primates that made them human? This process is called
hominization.

Let’s see how it happened. Match heads and tails.

 They walked in …
 Hands were free to …
 Their brain got bigger, …
 Their jaw and teeth got smaller …
 They could …

 … so their intelligence increased.

 … two feet. (upright)
 ….
 … make things and use tools.
 … and their forehead got flat.
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V.- Survival

cave c______ _____________

to hunt h______ _____________
to farm the land f______ _____________
weapons w_____ _____________

What do humans need to survive? Unscramble these words:

OODF - HTECLSO - TLEESHR

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1.- Places. Look at the photographs. Read the questions and answer YES or NO.

A B
Is there water? Is there water?
Are there plants? Are there plants?

Do you think that animals can live Do you think that animals can
there? live there?

Which of the two places would Prehistoric men choose to live?

They would choose ______ because there are __________ and __________ and because
_________________________.

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PALEOLITHIC

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