Description
Lesson 1 of the First Humans Unit: Why is History Important? **CAN BE ALTERED!**
This engaging and visually appealing 37-slide PowerPoint presentation is easy to understand with content illustrated with charts and pictures.
Keywords include:
Before the Common Era (B.C.E.)
The Common Era (C.E.)
History
Archaeology
Culture
Fossil
Artifacts
Primary source
Secondary source
Bias
PLEASE NOTE: This lesson is a PowerPoint document. The TEXT in this PowerPoint document can be altered, as can the order of the slides, transitions between slides, and animation of bullet points. The photos and proprietary fonts (in the titles and backgrounds) have been “digitally flattened” and are NOT able to be altered. This protects against copyright violations. Please understand what you are buying and my Terms of Use before purchasing this lesson. Thank you!
Overarching Question for this presentation (Thinking Focus Question):
Why is it important to study and understand history?
This PowerPoint presentation examines:
- Understanding a timeline
- What is B.C.E & C.E? ow How
- What is B.C. & A.D? Commun
- What is the role of the historian?
- What is history?
- How history provides clues to the present
- The importance of history: Knowing yourself, knowing others, knowing your world
- What is archaeology?
- How do archaeologists and historians work together?
- How artifacts provide clues
- How clues are found in bone, objects, and writing
- Understanding the difference between secondary and primary sources
- Understanding historical bias
- Five areas that make historical sources reputable
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This PowerPoint presentation and graphic organizer are part of the unit: First Humans. This unit can be downloaded in its entirety saving you substantially what it would cost you to buy each PowerPoint presentation and graphic organizer separately.
The First Humans Unit comes with:
- visually appealing PowerPoint presentations for each lesson (and pdf version),
- three+ graphic organizer pages for each lesson – answer key included,
- 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
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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TERMS OF USE: The purchase of this PowerPoint presentation product by ZoopDog Creations includes a limited license for your classroom use. You may utilize this resource for each of your students. Reproduction of this product for use by additional teachers or classrooms, an entire grade level, additional schools, or an entire school district is a violation of copyright.
- This product may NOT be copied and distributed outside of the scope of your classroom.
- This product may NOT be uploaded to the Internet or stored in a public retrieval system outside of the scope of the project itself (ex. your district website, slideshare.com, wikispaces.com, slideguru.com, your own personal website, etc.
- You may store this on your teacher's website only if it is password protected.
- The slides included in this resource may not be used to create something new, and or distributed in any way without written consent from the author.
If you have any questions pertaining to the limited licenses for this product, please contact zoopdogcreations@gmail.com. Thank you for abiding by these terms of use.
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Description
Lesson 1 of the First Humans Unit: Why is History Important? **CAN BE ALTERED!**
This engaging and visually appealing 37-slide PowerPoint presentation is easy to understand with content illustrated with charts and pictures.
Keywords include:
Before the Common Era (B.C.E.)
The Common Era (C.E.)
History
Archaeology
Culture
Fossil
Artifacts
Primary source
Secondary source
Bias
PLEASE NOTE: This lesson is a PowerPoint document. The TEXT in this PowerPoint document can be altered, as can the order of the slides, transitions between slides, and animation of bullet points. The photos and proprietary fonts (in the titles and backgrounds) have been “digitally flattened” and are NOT able to be altered. This protects against copyright violations. Please understand what you are buying and my Terms of Use before purchasing this lesson. Thank you!
Overarching Question for this presentation (Thinking Focus Question):
Why is it important to study and understand history?
This PowerPoint presentation examines:
- Understanding a timeline
- What is B.C.E & C.E? ow How
- What is B.C. & A.D? Commun
- What is the role of the historian?
- What is history?
- How history provides clues to the present
- The importance of history: Knowing yourself, knowing others, knowing your world
- What is archaeology?
- How do archaeologists and historians work together?
- How artifacts provide clues
- How clues are found in bone, objects, and writing
- Understanding the difference between secondary and primary sources
- Understanding historical bias
- Five areas that make historical sources reputable
Buy the Unit. Save Money $$.
This PowerPoint presentation and graphic organizer are part of the unit: First Humans. This unit can be downloaded in its entirety saving you substantially what it would cost you to buy each PowerPoint presentation and graphic organizer separately.
The First Humans Unit comes with:
- visually appealing PowerPoint presentations for each lesson (and pdf version),
- three+ graphic organizer pages for each lesson – answer key included,
- 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
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
Be sure to follow my store by clicking on the GREEN STAR next to my ZoopDog picture to receive notifications of new products. Thanks for stopping by my store!
TERMS OF USE: The purchase of this PowerPoint presentation product by ZoopDog Creations includes a limited license for your classroom use. You may utilize this resource for each of your students. Reproduction of this product for use by additional teachers or classrooms, an entire grade level, additional schools, or an entire school district is a violation of copyright.
- This product may NOT be copied and distributed outside of the scope of your classroom.
- This product may NOT be uploaded to the Internet or stored in a public retrieval system outside of the scope of the project itself (ex. your district website, slideshare.com, wikispaces.com, slideguru.com, your own personal website, etc.
- You may store this on your teacher's website only if it is password protected.
- The slides included in this resource may not be used to create something new, and or distributed in any way without written consent from the author.
If you have any questions pertaining to the limited licenses for this product, please contact zoopdogcreations@gmail.com. Thank you for abiding by these terms of use.




