With the abundance of food products we can easily access in our society today, it is easy to forget the toll this can take on our global environment. Young learners will discover how the transition to agriculture and domesticated living from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies would also come to mean intensive exploitation of land. This is a great way to combine environmental study or Earth Day activities with a social studies lesson on the Agricultural Revolution!

Concepts

agricultural revolution, earth day

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Additional Tags

earth day, nomad, hunter gatherer, agricultural revolution, social studies

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Pros

• Excellent background information, complete with resources and footnotes
• Includes most handouts and instructional materials
• Very detailed and well-organized lesson

Cons

• May need to include supplemental information for learners to sufficiently complete comparison charts in the first activty

Common Core

RI.5.4 RI.5.7 RI.6.4 RI.6.7 RI.7.4 RI.7.7 RI.8.4 RI.8.7