Lesson 3 of the First Humans Unit: Mesolithic Era - Middle Stone Age** CAN BE ALTERED!**

This engaging and visually appealing 35-PowerPoint presentation is easy to understand with content illustrated with charts and pictures.

Keywords include:

Mesolithic Period

The Ice Age

Landbridge

Pit house

Domesticated animal

Microlith

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Overarching Question for this presentation (Thinking Focus Question):

How did people adapt and evolve as the earth’s climate changed?

This PowerPoint presentation examines:

- Where the Mesolithic period falls on the timeline

- What is an ice age and how did it reveal new land bridges for people to cross?

- Using a world map and beginning in Africa, different migratory routes are examined that early people took to inhabit new continents

- Bering land bridge is discussed, and students are asked how early people arrived in the Americas.

- How Mesolithic people adapted to their new environments with tools, clothing, art, domesticated dogs, and fishing.

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The First Humans Unit comes with:

- visually appealing PowerPoint presentations for each lesson (and pdf version),

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- study guide and unit test (test and study guide are editable in a Word document format)

Here are other POWERPOINT lessons in this unit you may be interested in:

Lesson 1: Why is History Important?

Lesson 2: Paleolithic Era – Old Stone Age

Lesson 3: Mesolithic Era – Middle Stone Age

Lesson 4: Neolithic Era – New Stone Age

Lesson 5: Origin of Early Civilizations

First Humans Unit

Lessons in GOOGLE format:

Lesson 1: Why is History Important? GOOGLE

Lesson 2: Paleolithic Era – Old Stone Age GOOGLE

Lesson 3: Mesolithic Era – Middle Stone Age GOOGLE

Lesson 4: Neolithic Era – New Stone Age GOOGLE

Lesson 5: Origin of Early Civilizations GOOGLE

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