Alabama Social Studies SS24.7.5c
The Standard
- SS24.7.5
- Explain common patterns that emerged in the shift from hunter-gatherer societies to permanent settlements in different regions of the world, including types and sizes of settlements.
Describe the agricultural innovations that developed as a result of the Neolithic Revolution, including the domestication of plants and animals.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how people began planting saved seeds and raising animals for food and work. They describe how irrigation ditches, stone sickles, and storage jars helped people grow, harvest, and keep food.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that saving seeds from useful plants changed crops over many generations. They can connect an irrigation ditch to watering fields and a storage jar to keeping grain after harvest.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think domesticating an animal means taming one wild animal. They may also think people grew crops as soon as they found edible plants, rather than saving and planting seeds over many seasons.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: "How did saving seeds change farming over time? Name one other farming innovation and explain what it helped people do."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
On a shallow tray of sand, have pairs cut a channel with a spoon and pour water to see whether it reaches seed markers.
Ask students to write two sentences answering, "Why might farmers save seeds from their best wheat plants?"
Have groups sort cards labeled seed saving, sheep breeding, irrigation ditch, hunting deer, and gathering berries into farming innovations and older food sources.
Show photos of grocery store corn and wild teosinte, then ask students how saving seeds over generations could explain the differences.
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