Computer Hardware - Which One?

This One This One

Computer Hardware - Which One?

If this is computer hardware, what do we call these? (Besides CD-ROMS)

Computer Hardware - Which One?

If this is computer hardware, what do we call these? (Besides CD-ROMS)

Software

Computer Hardware - Software - what do these words have in common?

Both words have the suffix “ware”, which means something that’s a useful tool. We use similar words to describe similar things, and then make words distinctive by adding a word to show what’s different. Why does one word use the prefix “hard” and the other use the prefix “soft”? Sometimes we have to even invent new words for things that didn’t previously exist!

Hardware Software

In our study of Ancient Civilizations, we start with the names of the First Three Stone Ages.

Notice that they all have the last root word “lithic” in common. What does lithic mean? Have you ever heard of a lithium battery?

_____lithic _____lithic ____lithic

Have you ever heard of a monolith? It comes from the Greek word mono, which means single, and lithos, meaning stone. Click to see Hammurabi’s monolith from 1700 BC.

Paleo Meso Neo

Three Stone Ages

_____ lithic ______lithic ___lithic

____or Ancient ____ Age _______ Stone Age _____Stone Age

The age in human The age in human culture The age in humanculture characterized characterized by moving culture characterizedby the use of rough from a food-gathering by the use of stone or ______ stone tools. society to a food-production tools used to farm,

society. Tools in this age p______, weaving often had “barbs” or hooks, cloth, and baskets.

or i____________ blades.

Paleo Meso Neo

Old Stone Middle New

chipped

nterchangeable

ottery

TimeTrekCD/Unit2_AncientMan/A_ThreeStoneAges/A2_ThreeStoneAges.ppt

Three Stone Ages

Paleolithic Age Mesolithic Age Neolithic Age

25 million to 40,000 years ago 40,000 to 8,000 BC 8,000 to 3,500 BC

Paleolithic Mesolithic NeolithicOld or Ancient

Stone AgeMeso (Middle) Stone

AgeNew StoneAge

2.5 million years ago 40,000 BC-8,000 BC 8,000 BC-3,500 BC

Ice Age Ice Age begins to thaw out Ice Age thawed out

People lived on caves People live in and draw incaves

Some people begin to move outof caves

People build mud brick sheltersor tents made of poles, wrappedwith matting or animal skins

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rough or chippedstone tools

Hunters and gatherers

"barbs" or hooks

Interchangeable blades

Arrows Pottery

Stone farming tools

Cloth Baskets

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HOMES

TOOLS

People live in caves

Students start taking notes on handout - save for future tests!

Wooley Mammoth

aber-toothed tiger

Wooley Mammoths and Saber-Toothed tigers dying out

Some wolves tamed

Some sheep kept in pens

Sheep tamed (domesticated),used for wool and milk

Dogs help in hunting

No more Wooley Mammoths orSaber-toothed tigers

Saber-toothed tigers

Paleolithic Mesolithic NeolithicWooly Mammoths

Wooly Mammoths

AN I M ALS

Hand out cards and have students put in the correct locations on the whiteboarad with scotch tape.

No more wooly mammoths or saber-toothed tigers

Sheep and goats tamed (domesticated), used for wool, meat, and milk