TECH DAY

1. 10 min coloring

2. Research- Leather tanning

include a materials list for each type of tanning.

3 types required

Dec 13th Class

1. 15 min of coloring
Muscular system Review of the body (plate46)
Muscular System Lower Limb (plate 45)

2. Watch Film from Tuesday Dec 10th

Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run

Answer Questions from Dec 10th And turn them in no later than 2:10 regardless of completion

3. Technology

Research the shoe technology of the Tarahumara

The shoe is called the Huarache

This is a great one to do for your technology presentation including wering them around school.

Tuesday Dec 10th

1. 10 min of coloring. Focus on coloring the bones of the foot and lower leg

2. Watch the following 2 videos
   


The Barefoot Professor

Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run

After watching the 2 videos answer the following questions.

1. 

A.What does Dr. Lieberman believe the the reason is that humans have evolved to run barefoot?  

B.What evidence does he have?

2. Christopher McDougall has a different set of reasons for the importance of running.  

A.What does McDouglas believe is the importance of running?  

B. What are McDougall's 3 mysteries? How does running solve his 3 mysteries?

C. Why does McDougall believe that running is the natural state and the natural state is how we live today?

D. How do humans compare to squirrels in terms of sprinting?

E. How do females compare to males in the sprints and shorter races like the mile? What evidence does he use to illustrate this point?

F.How do females compare to males in ultra long distance running?  How does this fit both McDougall's and Lieberman's theories?

G.How does age effect running ability? Draw a graph that shows speed versus age for distance running in humans?

barefoot running and human evolution

Scholarly Article

Read the article

Answer the question:

According to the article how did bipedal running influence how we have evolved?

Persistence Hunting

Outside magazine article

Persistence hunt

Intelligent Design on Trial

Part 2

Recap

Natural Selection + Geological Timeline= ?

Natural Selection: Report Round 2

Natural Selection: The (mini) Lab Report

Natural Selection: Birds

Technology #6

1. Technology- Research the fishing technologies of the following groups:

A. The Inuit
B. The Yanomamo
C. Inca

Include in your description:

1. the tools they used and how to make them.
2. The food preservation/ cooking techniques.

REMINDERS-

Who: You
What: Technology presentation ppt/prezi is DUE
When: Midnight, Sunday Nov. 10
Where: To my email inbox
How: Email it to bwilcox@princeton.edu and/or brianamwilcox@gmail.com

SIGN UPS for in-class presentations begin Monday, Nov. 11

HELPFUL HINT- Use the 4-day weekend to physically create your technology.

Lactase Persistence Assessment

Your task is to create an infographic that allows an individual to access why lactase persistence is a unique example of the coevolution of human technology and human genetics.


Resources to help you are as follows

1. Basics of an infographic
2. Google search of popular infographic generators

Remember that the movies, labs, and articles all will contribute to your infographic.

Lactase Persistence

1. Film On lactase persistence and the co-evolution of genes and culture
2. Read Article on Lactase Persistence

Recovering your Grade

Why this stuff is important

Reving up for Assessment

Gotta Catch 'em All

The Making of: Trading Cards

Fighting Evolution Round 3

Fighting Evolution Round 2

Fighting Evolution

Moving On

Technology #4

Evaluating our work in Lab

Do Now:

1. Go to the Feedback form.

2. Complete the self- and peer-evaluation form. (15 minutes)

3. Complete your event chart and/or 5 HW questions if not done. Turn in if/when done.

4. Start preparing your notes for tomorrow’s assessment. (15 minutes)

5. Class Discussion on tomorrow’s assessment + grading. (10 minutes)

How to Make a Life-supporting Planet

Timeline Countdown

Timeline Revamp

Finishing the Timeline Project

Technology #3

Processing what we've learned

Continuing our Research

Research Time

Evolution Begins.

Technology #2

Fire by friction

• hand drill
• bow drill
• fire saw
• fire piston

4 questions that must be answered for each technology

1. What materials can be used 
2. Where are the materials found
3. How do yo make the technology
4. What cultures used this technology

interested?

Historical Archeology opportunity

Assignment 2

Read pages 2-16

Take notes

Upon completion find a partner and complete the following assignment.


You will be assigned a discipline from chapter 1 to create a presentation on (either poster or powerpoint/prezi)

Your presentation should include:

1. Overview of the discipline
2. A biography of an influential researcher in the field
3. A description of the work that the individual undertook with specifics of it's influence on our understanding of anthropology.

Due at the end of the period Friday.  You will begin presentations on Monday.

Assignment 1

Assignment 1

1.Why did you sign up for this class
2.What is anthropology?

Welcome

1. Get gmail Account
2. Get composition book
3. Turn in contact information

Friday May 10th

1. Class discussion running man hypothesis
2. Infographic design (this is the graded portion of your bipedalism work)
1. Basics of infographics

Wrapping up this week

1. Complete calculations associated with the walking lab
2. Complete calculations of energy usage based on traveling velocity
3. Complete example hunter gatherer diet and appropriate amounts using the 80/20 rule.
4. Read the running man hypothesis paper.

Running man hypothesis

Article about the running man hypothesis


Read  Class discussion to follow on friday

Calorie calculators

Physical activity calculator


Base caloric demand calculator

Trading Cards

Trading card assignment

Chap 1 assignment

You will be assigned a topic from chapter 1 to create a presentation on (either poster or powerpoint/prezi)

Your presentation should include:

1. Overview of the discipline
2. A biography of an influential researcher in the field
3. A description of the work that the individual undertook with specifics of it's influence on our understanding of anthropology.

Welcome spring 2013

Welcome to Physical Anthropology

1. Read Criteria for Success
2. Fill out Student Contact Info
3. Read Course Topics

Midterm

Part 1.

Create an artifact to illustrate human evolution.  This artifact should clearly demonstrate what theory you believe. Included should be a clear understanding of the process of evolution, the timeline that this process occurred on, the evidence to support your argument and a description of how this is represented in the modern population.

• Examples of artifacts
• Essay
• Timeline and map
• Video
• Podcast

Part 2.  Multiple choice

Scantron must be filled out day of the exam.

Evolution of Human Skin Color

Skin Deep Article


Nina Jablonski-Ted Talk

Hybrid theory

Read out of africa again and again?

Questions you should be able to answer

1. what is the theory?
2. how does it differ from replacement theory and multiregionalism.
3. What evidence from Becoming Human part 3 is there for this theory?

Out of Africa

Read the Replacement theory article