Lesson · Grade 3 · Social Studies
How People Tamed Animals
- Grade 3
- Social Studies
- 1 min 25 s
- British Columbia
- BC3-SS-07
Four wild animals (a wolf, a wild sheep, a wild horse and a guanaco) each become a tame animal, shown one at a time below them: a dog, a woolly sheep, a riding horse and a llama, each labelled with the work it does for people. The dog's story shows how taming began, with wolves near a camp fire, the friendliest ones staying close and pups that grew tamer over many years, and the video ends by showing that people tamed animals that suited their land and that came to live and work with them.
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The question this lesson answers
Long ago, every animal was wild, so how did people tame some of them?
Here are four wild animals: wolves, wild sheep, wild horses and guanacos.
Transcript
What the lesson says
Long ago, every animal was wild, so how did people tame some of them?
Here are four wild animals: wolves, wild sheep, wild horses and guanacos.
Scientists think some wolves came near people's camps to find leftover food.
The friendliest wolves stayed close, and people began to care for them.
Over many, many years, their pups grew tamer and slowly became dogs.
Dogs were the first animals people tamed, at least 15,000 years ago.
Dogs helped people hunt and kept guard over their camps.
Later, early farmers in south-west Asia tamed wild sheep.
Sheep gave people wool, milk and meat.
On wide, open grasslands, people tamed wild horses.
Horses carried riders and pulled heavy loads.
High in the Andes mountains of South America, guanacos were tamed and became llamas.
Llamas carried loads on steep mountain paths and gave wool.
People tamed animals that suited their land, like llamas for mountains and horses for grasslands.
Over many years, wild animals were tamed and came to live and work with people.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 3
Social Studies, People and the land: relationship between humans and their environmentBC3-SS-07
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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