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Big History - Human development - Agriculture and Civilisation
Lesson11 of 13 in this unit
PrimaryYear 3 - 6ScienceEarth and SpaceHuman EndeavourEnvironmentalLand ManagementEconomicSystems Thinking
Lesson Summary
This lesson explores the impact of the development of agriculture (farming) on human civilisation. Students explore the changes that farming made to the way early humans lived, and investigate what has formed the human diet throughout history.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- understand how human civilisation continued to develop with the invention of agriculture.
Success criteria
Students can:
- contrast the differences between a hunter-gatherer and an agricultural lifestyle
- explain why agriculture (farming) is considered an important threshold in the development of human civilisation.
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