Lactase persistence Case study

Video 1- Spencer Wells

Video 2- Sarah Tishkoff

Pedigree analysis

Lactase test analysis

Gene regulation click and learn

Handout -gene regulation click and learn

Quiz (use notes and handouts)

Technology #4

Glues

Plant Based

Animal Based

Geological timeline lab

Discovery Lab: Making a Geologic Time Line

Materials: Tape, sheets of printer paper, meter sticks, scissors, glue, colors, image packet, Ipads/smartphones/laptops

Procedure

Setting up the timeline:

1. Arrange sheets of printer paper in a landscape orientation and line them up end to end, forming a 5 meter-long

2. Using clear transparent tape, tape the paper together so that there is 5 meters of paper

from end to end.

3. Using a meter stick, draw a line through across the middle of the paper from left to

right.

4. In the top left corner, make a scale. Label the scale: 1 cm = 10 million years

5. Starting on the left side of the paper, measure 5 cm, to the right on the line, and make

a vertical mark. Label this mark with the word “Today”.

6. From this mark, measure 1 meter to the right on this line and make a vertical mark.

Label this mark “1 billion years”. Measure and mark each meter after that up to 4

meters or 4 billion years from today.

7. Now, measure 60 cm to make the total length of the time line 4.6 meters. Mark and

label this distance 4.6 billion years (The Beginning of Time).

Marking events on the timeline:

8. Label the year and name of each eon, era, and period on your geologic time scale.

Using the scale 1 cm = 10 million years, measure the distance to each era from Today.

9. Using both your image packet and the list below as guides, measure, mark, and label the major events of each era on your geologic time scale. (If you don’t know when an event occurred, research it using reputable sources on the internet.)

-Greatest known extinction event

-Oldest known fossil

-First marine reptiles   (mosasaur and plesiosaur)

-First Coal-forming forest

-Pangaea begins to break

-First land animals

-First forests

-Formation of the Western Interior Seaway

Annotating Events:

10. Color and cut out each of the images in the image packet.

11. Paste them onto the geologic time scale .

12. Label all the letter images, using the space allowed on the timeline

13. Annotate all images and events with additional information provided in the image packet as well as researched on your own. In your annotation include:

   1. Crucial information

2. Why it is important to know

______________________________________________________________________________

Geologic Time Scale Questionnaire: What Do You Know? (1-10)

Procedure: On a sheet of paper, write out your answers to the best of your knowledge. Give yourself a lot of space, because you will return to this worksheet after every lab day and update your answers. Write in a different color of ink for each day and create a key for which color was used on which day.

1. How much older is Earth than you?

2. How would you help a kindergarten student understand the age of the Earth?

3. How do scientists determine when an eon, era, or period begins and ends?

4. When did the greatest extinction event occur on Earth? How?

5. What triggered the beginning of the Cenozoic era?

6. How did photosynthesis change Earth’s atmosphere? Why was this one of the most significant events in Earth’s history?

7. What evolutionary adaptation allowed for life on land?

8. In your opinion, what was the most crucial geological or biological event for the evolution of humans?

9. What evidence have scientists used to answer these kinds of questions?

10. Why is it important for scientists (and us) to study the history of the Earth?

Technology #3

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

A. The Inuit
B. The Yanomamo
C. Inca


Include in your description in addition to the other questions we normally use.

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

Trading Card Assignment

Trading card assignment

Technology #2

Fire by friction

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

Basic Questions for all Technologies

1. What materials do you need and how can you identify them? (example if you want to use milkweed how can you tell what it is, when should you  cultivate it, how do you process it)
2. What process/ technique do you use to make the technology? (sometimes this is more then one. for example making something like shoes requires leather tanning, cordage, sewing...)
3. Who did this? (what human populations used these techniques. be specific, when where descriptions of their culture, range, everything you can find out about them)

Class Assignment Wed Sept 24th

Period 7+8

1. Watch Mystery of Easter Island.
2. Read the article Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island and answer the following questions (turn in at the end of 7th period) (having a hard time understanding the article try reading this)
1. How did Jared Diamond describe the fall of Rapa Nui?
2. Who is Thor Heyerdahl and what did he claim about the populating of Rapa Nui?
3. Who is Terry Hunt?
4. What is his theory for the collapse of Rapanui?
5.  How does his theory differ from Jared Diamonds?
6. Create a timeline outlining both the Diamonds view of the collapse of Rapanui and Hunts view on the collapse of the island.

Assignment #2

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.

Topic 

#-Topic

1. cultural anthropology
2. linguistic anthropology
3. archeology
4. historic archeology
5. biological anthropology
6. paleoanthropology
7. primate paleontology
8. nutritional anthropology
9. molecular anthropology
10. Osteology/paleopathology
11. forensic anthropology
12. primatology
13. biocultural anthropology
14. Applied anthropology

Technology 1

Period 8

Organize your technology fieldbook

Set Up Fieldbook

1. write your name on the cover
2. Skip the first 5 pages for the table of contents
3. Start you research record on the next available page after the Table of Contents
1. Use at least one page per technology (todays assignment will use at least 3 pages. One for each type of cordage)

Technology Research #1

Basic Questions for all Technologies

1. What materials do you need and how can you identify them? (example if you want to use milkweed how can you tell what it is, when should you  cultivate it, how do you process it)
2. What process/ technique do you use to make the technology? (sometimes this is more then one. for example making something like shoes requires leather tanning, cordage, sewing...)
3. Who did this? (what human populations used these techniques. be specific, when where descriptions of their culture, range, everything you can find out about them)

The technology you are going to research today is cordage.

you need to find 3 different types of CORDAGE

1. Plant cordage (you need to find another plant other then milkweed) This is what we did in class
2. Sinew cordage
3. leather cordage

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

End of course assessment.

Part 1.

Create an artifact to illustrate human evolution.  This artifact should clearly demonstrate what theory you believe(out of africa, multiregionalism, hybrid theory) . 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(lactase persistence, human skin color, language development, brain development, abstract/cultural development).

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

Part 2.  Multiple choice

Scantron must be filled out day of the exam.

Technology

Research the following technology

1. Atlatl
2.Bow

Technology

Glues

1- plant based glue

2. animal based glue

Technology

Footwear

Tarahumara-Huraches

Inuit-Mukluks

Algonquin-Moccasins

Infographic assignment

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.

Due thursday at the end of 8th period

Regulation of the lactase gene

Regulation of the lactase gene click and learn

Lactase Persistence

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

Technology

Cheese

Whipping method

Use method 2 in this video

Great Transformations

• 15 Min of Work in the evidence of evolution packet (per period)
• Watch the Film Great Transformations
• Answer Questions to the Film
• Complete work on fire technology upon finishing movie questions

Assignment for Thursday March 27th + 28th

Technology

Fire by friction

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

Discovery Lab: Making a Geologic Time Line

Materials: Tape, sheets of printer paper, meter sticks, scissors, glue, colors, image packet, Ipads/smartphones/laptops

Procedure

Setting up the timeline:

1. Arrange sheets of printer paper in a landscape orientation and line them up end to end, forming a 5 meter-long

2. Using clear transparent tape, tape the paper together so that there is 5 meters of paper

from end to end.

3. Using a meter stick, draw a line through across the middle of the paper from left to

right.

4. In the top left corner, make a scale. Label the scale: 1 cm = 10 million years

5. Starting on the left side of the paper, measure 5 cm, to the right on the line, and make

a vertical mark. Label this mark with the word “Today”.

6. From this mark, measure 1 meter to the right on this line and make a vertical mark.

Label this mark “1 billion years”. Measure and mark each meter after that up to 4

meters or 4 billion years from today.

7. Now, measure 60 cm to make the total length of the time line 4.6 meters. Mark and

label this distance 4.6 billion years (The Beginning of Time).

Marking events on the timeline:

8. Label the year and name of each eon, era, and period on your geologic time scale.

Using the scale 1 cm = 10 million years, measure the distance to each era from Today.

9. Using both your image packet and the list below as guides, measure, mark, and label the major events of each era on your geologic time scale. (If you don’t know when an event occurred, research it using reputable sources on the internet.)

-Greatest known extinction event

-Oldest known fossil

-First marine reptiles   (mosasaur and plesiosaur)

-First Coal-forming forest

-Pangaea begins to break

-First land animals

-First forests

-Formation of the Western Interior Seaway

Annotating Events:

10. Color and cut out each of the images in the image packet.

11. Paste them onto the geologic time scale .

12. Label all the letter images, using the space allowed on the timeline

13. Annotate all images and events with additional information provided in the image packet as well as researched on your own. In your annotation include:

   1. Crucial information

2. Why it is important to know

______________________________________________________________________________

HW: Geologic Time Scale Questionnaire: What Do You Know? (1-10)

Procedure: On a sheet of paper, write out your answers to the best of your knowledge. Give yourself a lot of space, because you will return to this worksheet after every lab day and update your answers. Write in a different color of ink for each day and create a key for which color was used on which day.

1. How much older is Earth than you?

2. How would you help a kindergarten student understand the age of the Earth?

3. How do scientists determine when an eon, era, or period begins and ends?

4. When did the greatest extinction event occur on Earth? How?

5. What triggered the beginning of the Cenozoic era?

6. How did photosynthesis change Earth’s atmosphere? Why was this one of the most significant events in Earth’s history?

7. What evolutionary adaptation allowed for life on land?

8. In your opinion, what was the most crucial geological or biological event for the evolution of humans?

9. What evidence have scientists used to answer these kinds of questions?

10. Why is it important for scientists (and us) to study the history of the Earth?

Darwin's Observations

Presentation

Technology

The sling

Chap 2

1. Read chapter 2 Take notes
2. Create a timeline outlining the advancement of scientific knowledge and technology that lead to our current understanding of Evolution.
3. Clearly articulate the resistance to Evolution for each of the major eras of our understanding of evolution

Evolution Trading Cards

Trading Card Activity-  Day 1: Making the Cards

Make 5 different cards for 2 points each (10 points total).

Ways to get extra credit:

1. Make copies of your cards to trade with members of the class. 1 point for each new card in your collection that you traded for. Max EC points: 30

2. Find people/object/place/event not on the list. You get 2 extra points for each card made with the unlisted person/place etc. Max EC points: 10

Materials: scissors, glue, markers/crayons, index cards, laptops, printer

Front of card:  1. Colored-in picture of person, place, event, object.

                        2. Title and Name of person, place, event, object.

Back of Card: 1. Date of Event: (lifespan, Birthday, Event date/time range)

2. Description of impact on evolutionary understanding.

Use your laptops to:

-Find and print a black-and-white picture of person, place, event, object.

-Google information about person, place, event, object.

-Can also use event charts for information.

Use arts and crafts supplies to:

-Cut out/color in your black-and-white picture

-Glue picture to index card

-Write labels/info on card

List of individuals/moments of importance:

Charles Lyell Alfred Russel Wallace

James Hutton Ernst Haekel

Lynn Margulis Gregor Mendel

William Bateson Ernst Mayr

Hugo de Vries Theodosius Dobzhansky

JBS Haldane Thomas Malthus

Jean Baptiste Lamarck Carolus Linnaeus

Comte de Buffon Erasmus Darwin

Georges Cuvier Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire

Robert Grant Robert Chambers

Richard Owen HMS Beagle

Joseph Dalton Hooker Thomas Henry Huxley

Georges Romanes Sir John Lubbock

Robert Fitzroy R.A. Fisher

Sewall Wright E.B. Ford

Bernard Rensch Sergi Cherverikov

George Gaylord Simpson G. Ledyard Stebbins

Stephen J Gould Milford Wollpof

Peter and Rosemary Grant James Crow

Richard Lewontin Dan Hartl

Marcus Feldman Brian Charlesworth

Mary Anning Origin of Species

The Descent of Man Richard Dawkins

Richard Fisher Galileo Galilei

Copernicus Galapagos Islands

Finches Fossil Record

Classwork Monday 2/17/14

Period 7

1. Finish Watching Mystery of Easter Island  you want to pick up this movie at about the 25 minute mark.
2. Read the article Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island and answer the following questions (turn in at the end of 7th period) (having a hard time understanding the article try reading this)
1. How did Jared Diamond describe the fall of Rapa Nui?
2. Who is Thor Heyerdahl and what did he claim about the populating of Rapa Nui?
3. Who is Terry Hunt?
4. What is his theory for the collapse of Rapanui?
5.  How does his theory differ from Jared Diamonds?
6. Create a timeline outlining both the Diamonds view of the collapse of Rapanui and Hunts view on the collapse of the island.  

Period 8

Organize your technology fieldbook

1. write your name on the cover
2. Skip the first 5 pages for the table of contents
3. Start you research record on the next available page after the Table of Contents
1. Use at least one page per technology (todays assignment will use at least 3 pages. One for each type of cordage)

Technology Research #1

Basic Questions for all Technologies

1. What materials do you need and how can you identify them? (example if you want to use milkweed how can you tell what it is, when should you  cultivate it, how do you process it)
2. What process/ technique do you use to make the technology? (sometimes this is more then one. for example making something like shoes requires leather tanning, cordage, sewing...)
3. Who did this? (what human populations used these techniques. be specific, when where descriptions of their culture, range, everything you can find out about them)

The technology you are going to research today is cordage.

you need to find 3 different types of CORDAGE

1. Plant cordage (you need to find another plant other then milkweed) This is what we did in class
2. Sinew cordage
3. leather cordage

If you finish both the period 7 and 8 classwork you can use the rest of the time to work on your presentations

Assignment #2

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.

Midterm fall 2013

Part 1.

Create an artifact to illustrate human evolution.  This artifact should clearly demonstrate

1. How this example of Human Evolution is supported by the general theory of evolution (describe how and  why we evolved this way)
2. How this example supports the Model of Human Dispersion that you believe to be true.

 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

Examples of Human Evolution

• Bipedalism
• Language
• Skin Color
• Digestive System
• Childhood
• Brain Development
• Development of culture

Part 2.  Multiple choice

Scantron must be filled out day of the exam.

Evolution of Human Skin Color (last topic of the semester)

Skin Deep Article Read


Nina Jablonski-Ted Talk  Watch

Human dispersion theories

Scientific American Special Issue May 2003

Read The articles in Emergence.

Start with

1.Out of Africa again ... and again
2.The Multiregional Evolution of Humans
3.The Recent African Genesis of Humans

Technology Day

research the following projectile technologies

1. Sling
2. atlatl
3. bow