During the Paleolithic age, men hunted and women gathered food. People lived nomadic lifestyles, moving from place to place to find resources, and lived in caves. They invented the use of fire. In the Neolithic age, people began farming, domesticating animals, and living in permanent houses made of wood or brick. They developed agriculture and became sedentary in this period.

1. Paleolithic and Neolithic
PREHISTORY
Social Science
5th
Primary

2. Food
Paleolithic Age
• Men hunted for food ,
and women recollected
food from the trees .
• They invented the fire
Neolithic Age
• People learned how to grow
the food , and people
domesticated animals
• They invented
AGRICULTURE and
FARMING .

3. Houses
Paleolithic Age
• They were nomads.
• They didn’t have permanent
houses . They lived in caves
• They had to move from one
place to another, where the
food was .
Neolithic Age
• They were sedentary
• They had permanent houses .
• Homes were usually made
from wood or bricks .

4. Clothing
Paleolithic Age
• Clothing was made from fur
(skin of the animals).
• The weather during the time
was very cold , so people
dressed to stay warm .
Neolithic Age
• They started to use clothes
made by the skin of the
animals
• People were knittles.

5. Questions
• In which period of the prehistory
people were sedentary?
• In which period of the prehistory was
the agriculture develop?
• What’s the name for the people who
travel from one place to another to
look for food?
• In which period of the prehistory
people invented the fire?

6. Activities
1. Classify these words in two groups
1. Complete the sentences
In the ________________, people lived in
______________, they were _____________, that is,
they moved from one place to another. They
__________ and ____________ fruits from the trees.
They invented ____________. In the
_______________, people were _____________, that
is, they lived in their houses. They invented
SEDENTARY – FIRE – AGRICULTURE – NOMADS – HUNTING –
CAVES – HOUSES – FARMING
NEOLITHIC - SEDENTARY – FIRE – AGRICULTURE – NOMADS –
HUNTED – PALEOLITHIC - CAVES – HOUSES – RECOLLECTED -
FARMING

7. JOURNAL
1. Write two sentences about Paleolithic and
two sentences about Neolithic. Then, use the
appropiate colours to do the parsing of each
sentence.
2. Search for past simple verbs. Classify them
in regular or irregular verbs.