This 15 slide Year 7 History lesson sequence introduces students to the social structure and daily life of early human communities. The resource helps students analyse how groups organised themselves, how they met their needs, and how archaeologists reconstruct daily life from limited evidence. The first section (slides 1–8) opens with an inquiry question asking how early humans lived and worked together. Students examine hunter‑gatherer groups, family structures, division of labour, mobility, shelter, food sources, and seasonal patterns. A dedicated slide addresses whose voices are missing and why. The section closes with a synthesis slide drawing together what the evidence reveals about identity, survival, and daily experience. The second section (slides 9–15) provides a flexible activity bank including source analysis, discussion, creative thinking, structured writing, ranking tasks, retrieval starters, and exit tickets. The transferable skill is social structure analysis; early human societies are the vehicle.

This resource is provided as non‑editable PDFs and is not designed as editable PowerPoints. Teachers can upload slides to their LMS, print selected pages for classroom use, display them to support discussion, analysis, and writing, or upload them to presentation or design platforms if they wish to adapt the material (formatting may vary depending on the program).