08/07/2026
After sharing our Third Great Lesson, I knew I wanted the follow up work to spend more time exploring Fundamental Human Needs and the ways humans have met those needs throughout history.
The part I had to think through more carefully was human evolution.
I already had several materials and books that could have taken us much further into that study, and for a while I debated how much of it I wanted to introduce this year. Ultimately, after looking at my scope and sequence, I decided to keep our study of early humans fairly introductory and save a deeper look at human evolution for later on.
So our follow up work stayed mostly with the questions that naturally came from the lesson:
How did early humans find food?
Where did they live?
How did they make tools?
How did they adapt to different environments?
How did they move across the world?
And how did the same fundamental needs eventually lead to so many different ways of living?
Looking back at all of the work together, I think this was exactly enough.
Materials shown: a mix of resources from Alison’s Montessori, NAMC, HOKA, and a few things I put together specifically for our follow up work. Most of the books and other materials I used for the Third Great Lesson are also saved to my Amazon list.
— Bri
