Activity 1: Narrate the Lesson
- After you read or listen to the lesson, narrate the events aloud using your own words.
Activity 2: Act Out the Chapter
Gather as many of the following props as you wish to act out the story:
- Couch - for a hollow log
- Steps or countertop - for the tree holding the eggs
- Blocks or balls - for bird's eggs
- Small stuffed animal - for the animal for you to catch and eat
- Large stuffed animal - for the saber-toothed tiger trying to catch you
Instructors - read the following to the children and help them act out each line.
- Imagine you are a primitive human who lived millions of years ago, before the Stone Age began.
- Communicate using grunts and moans. You do not know how to speak words or write.
- You must find food and shelter to survive. First, find a hollow tree (couch) to sleep in. Take a nap.
- Next, wake up and hunt for something to eat. Climb a tree (steps or countertop) to rob a nest of its eggs (blocks or balls). Climb down and catch a small animal (small stuffed animal) to eat.
- Watch out! A saber-toothed tiger (large stuffed animal) is headed your way. Run and hide in your hollow tree (couch).
Activity 3: Complete Copywork, Narration, and Dictation
Click the crayon above. Complete page 7 of 'World History Copywork, Narration, Dictation, and Art for Third Grade.'
Activity 4: Draw Early Humans Before the Stone Age
Click the crayon above. Read the below instructions and complete page 8 of 'World History Copywork, Narration, Dictation, and Art for Third Grade.'
Use pencils, crayons, pastels, or markers and the following description from the chapter to draw your own pictures of pre-Stone Age people.
- The ancestor of humanity was quite small.
- The heat of the sun and the biting wind of the cold winter had colored their skin a dark brown.
- Their head and most of their body were covered with long hair.
- They had very thin but strong fingers which made their hands look like those of a monkey.
- Their forehead was low and their jaw was like the jaw of a wild animal which uses its teeth both as fork and knife.