Human evolution

GRUP D’EXPERIMENTACIÓ PER AL PLURILINGÜISME

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PREHISTORY: HUMAN EVOLUTION Social Sciences Maria Sindreu Fernández. Escola Garbí – Pere Vergés


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PREHISTORY: HUMAN EVOLUTION Material elaborat durant la realització de la formació adreçada als docents que implementen el pilotatge del GEP (Grup d’Experimentació per al Plurilingüisme) durant el curs 2013-2014, realitzada amb el/la formador/a del Oxford University Press SG de Llengua i Plurilingüisme Servei de Llengües Estrangeres Abril, 2014 Els continguts d’aquesta publicació estan subjectes a una llicència de Reconeixement-No comercial-Compartir 3.0 de Creative Commons. Se’n permet còpia, distribució i comunicació pública sense ús comercial, sempre que se n’esmenti l’autoria i la distribució de les possibles obres derivades es faci amb una llicència igual que la que regula l’obra original. La llicència completa es pot consultar a: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/deed.ca


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v Watch a short video about Human Evolution.

v Recall specific information from the video. Be sure to watch, listen and remember!

v Think about the differences and similarities between primate skeleton and human skeleton.

v Categorize differences and similarities between Homo Erectus and Neanderthal.

v Find information about prehistoric tools.

v Draw a timeline of the process of humanization.

v Create a replica of a real painting or object of prehistoric art.

v Share your work with your classmates.

v Assess and evaluate your progress, participation, recalling, and

understanding of the concepts of human prehistory.

Ten tips for learning success


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DIRECTIONS: Click on the link below. Watch the YouTube video about the beginning of the human. http://youtu.be/Mm-IxK1GrYE

Recalling After to watch the video you can find the correct answers:

a) Human and chimp have a common ancestor that lived a. 6.5 million years ago b. 2 million years ago c. 10 million years ago

b) The knowledge of the exact relationships between this ancestors is:

a. Very clear. b. Incomplete. c. Very incomplete.

c) The first human species fossil was found in:

a. America b. Africa and Europe c. Africa

d) The settle of homo erectus it was in

a. Only in Africa b. Asia and Europe c. Africa and Asia.

Activities

VIDEO: “Human Prehistory. Prologue”


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Understanding Work in groups of 2 or 3 and create a list of differences between these two skeletons:

a. Compare the two skeletons and explains what is going biped and quadruped

walking. b. Which changes in the pelvis and the spine of humans caused bipedalism? c. What differences do you find between the arms and hands? And between

the skulls?

Applying Based on the ideas you have created and the ideas you have heard in your group conversations, categorize the differences and similarities between Homo Erectus and Neanderthal. Answer the following questions: 1. What characteristics distinguish humans from other primates? 2. Where to go the different routes of human expansion from Africa to the other

continents? 3. What is the main difference between Homo Erectus and Neanderthal? 4. What would happen if we didn't evolve so much? 5. How would that change society today?

Compare your answers with the answers of another group or other groups.


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Answer the following questions:

1. How did the first hominids come?

2. What characteristics distinguish humans from other primates?

3. How do you call the process that gave way from primates to humans?

1. Find information about prehistoric tools. What's a biface?

Look at the drawings that illustrate the process of developing a biface and describes it. 2. Draws a timeline of the process of humanization. Include five technological advances in humanization. You can use your ipad and "Timeline Eons FREE" app or “Dipity” program in your computer.

Revision

Extension


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Plan and Create a painting or object of Prehistoric Art. Instructions:

§ You will be in groups of 2 or 3 to plan and create a replica of a real painting or object of prehistoric art.

§ If you choose an object you can do a dolmen, chromlec, venus or other ritual object of prehistory.

§ You will need the information you and the other members of your group

collected from your investigation.

§ Watch these videos about prehistoric art: http://youtu.be/e4JiJdG4UOE http://youtu.be/oCU_SgsgvNU

§ Use the informations you gathered: fotos, articles, videos, and/or images to discuss the qualities of each member's about prehistoric art as a group.

§ Decide together wich object or paint would like to use as a model to try and reproduce in this project.

§ Plan out the design of an object or painting and its surrounding on paper before creating it.

Be sure and think of the following to ensure a quality project:

§ What steps will you need to take to build an object or doing a painting. (Be specific).

§ Designate responsabilities for design and for construction or creation. § How can you create the object or painting? § What kind of material you will need to be used to best recreate the object or

painting you have chosen? § If you create an object: How will you use the glue, bluetack, plastilina to ensure

a well-connected, sturdy structure? § If you create a painting: What kind of structure If you create a painting: What

kind of structure you will use for paint in it? What kind of paints you will use to make them as believable as possible?

Project: collaborative problem solving


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Be sure and do the following:

§ Take photos, videos and/or recordings of the entire process of the project from the groups first meeting to the planning, collecting and constructing your project.

§ Compare the final version of your object or painting to the original. Make any modifications necessary in order to achieve maximum realism.

§ Show your creation to other groups. § Share the steps and procedures you and your group implemented in order to

make your object or painting replica. § Give positive feedback to others and their creations. § Add the bibliography and references you used for your project: § Add the websites you surfed to get information. § Add photos/recordings of the creation process (like a “making off…”

presentations. § Anything else special you needed or used. §


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Recalling information

You can easily remember and discuss the information in the video and concepts about Human Prehistory.

You can remember and discuss most of the information in the videos and the concepts about Human Prehistory.

You can remember and talk about some of the information in the video and the concepts about Human Prehistory.

You can remember and talk very little about the information in the video and the concepts about Human Prehistory.

Understanding information

You can understand very well the differences between the skeleton of a primate and a human.

You can fairly well understand some differences between the skeleton of a primate and a human.

You can understand somewhat some differences between the skeleton of a primate and a human.

You find it difficult to understand some differences between the skeleton of a primate and a human.

Revising information

You can understand very well the similarities and differences between Homo Erectus and Neanderthal.

You can fairly well understand some similarities and differences between Homo Erectus and Neanderthal.

You can understand somewhat some similarities and differences between Homo Erectus and Neanderthal.

You find it difficult to understand some similarities and differences between Homo Erectus and Neanderthal.

Group work You participated in all the aspects of the unit your group. You have worked extremely well and solved issues with group members.

You participated in most of the aspects of the unit with your group. You have worked very well and solved most of the issues with group members.

You participated in some of the aspects of the unit with your group. You have worked well and solved some issues with group members.

You barely participated in the unit with your group. You have worked little and solved none of the issues with group members.

Create a replica of a real painting or object of prehistoric art Project.

You participated in all the aspects of the creation a replica of a real painting or object of prehistoric art.

You participated n most of the aspects of the creation of the creation a replica of a real painting or object of prehistoric art.

You participated in some of the aspects of the creation of the creation a replica of a real painting or object of prehistoric art.

You barely participated in the aspects of the creation a replica of a real painting or object of prehistoric art.

Assessment


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In this unit you have…

v I watched a short video about Human Evolution.

v I can recall specific information from the video.

v I thought about the differences between primate skeleton and human skeleton.

v I categorized differences and similarities between Homo Erectus and Neanderthal.

v I found information about prehistoric tools.

v I drawed a timeline of the process of humanization.

v I found information about prehistoric art.

v I created a replica of a real painting or object of prehistoric art.

v I shared my replica and the process of this creation by my classmates.

v I assessed and evaluated my progress, participation, recalling, and understanding of the concepts of Human Prehistory and the Human evolution, their tools and art.

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