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Early Humans for Teachers
Lesson Plans & Activities




Learning Modules 

The Life & Times of Early Man 

Cave Paintings & Rock Art

Early Humans (Lucy, Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon and more!)

 

Lesson Plans & Units

Lucy Extension Activities for Educators

Early People Ice Age Project Chicago Grammar School

Ancient History Lesson Ideas: Early Man (Donn)

Lesson Plan- Early Humans Wanted! Poster Project Grade(s)- 6 

The First Humans - Leakey and Lucy

Early Man in North American UNIT

The Invented Kingdom (Hunters/Gatherers)  

Era 1: Beginnings of Human Society

Drama: A Play for the Classroom: The Discovery of FIRE!

Fossils & Early Migration Patterns in Early Hominids

Land Bridge - Theory of Migration

Secrets of the Dead

Cave Art (lesson) & Cave Paintings

Cro-Magnon Cave Painting (lesson)

Cave Men to Cave Painting
 (1st grade, from this you can adjust to any grade, mini unit)
 

Cave Art- Discovering Prehistoric Humans through Pictures 

Investigating Our Past- Where Did Humans Come From?

Footsteps Through Time - Evolution Lesson Plans

SENSI Lesson List- Evolution & Charles Darwin

Neanderthals on Trial

Early Human Societies (Early Man)

The Ice Age (lessons)

Science Safari - First People 

The Humans Review Game

See Also: Archaeology Lesson Plans &
 
Science Lesson Plans for Fossils & Evolution


Additional Resources

Free Presentations in PowerPoint format  

Free Video Clips about Early Man 

Free Interactive Games for Early Man

 Free Original Clip Art for Early Man

How did we get here anyway? 
& Main Page Era 1 (13 billion to 200,000 years ago)  

Human Beings Almost Everywhere 
& Main Page Era 2 (200,000 - 10,000 years ago)



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This book has three complete mini-units -
Five Themes of Geography, 
Archaeology, and Early Humans.







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