Lactase persistance

Clicker Case

Microevolution review sheet

HWE Problems
Answers
True/false
7-T
8-F
9-F
10-T

MC
22-c
23-b
24-a
25-c
26-d
27-c
28-b
29-c

Unit 3 Macroevolution

Great transformations movie question sheet

Geological Timeline

Review sheet answer key

Unit 2 Introduction to Evolution

Unit 1 Introduction to Evolution

Assignment #1- Movie Questions- Darwin's Dangerous Idea DUE

Assignment #2- History of evolutionary thought timeline DUE

Assignment # 3- Bird Lab-DUE

Assignment 4- Judgement day questions-DUE

Assignment 5-Mechanisms of evolution packet- DUE

Review sheet-Missing pages and review answers

Unit 1-Introduction to Anthropology

Assignment # 1-Famous Anthropologists and their Disciplines

Assignment# 2- Iceman Murder Mystery

Assignment #3-Easter Island (Applied Anthropology)

Review sheet Key

Take home portion of the Final assessment

Assessment

you may use your notes and other resources. No discussing with classmates

Becoming Human Notes and Video Questions

As Requested

Notes and Video Questions from the Becoming Human Series

End of Course Project

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
• Infographic

Footwear

Research production methods of footwear

Tarahumara-Huraches

Inuit-Mukluks

Algonquin-Moccasins

Human Dispersal Articles

Human Dispersal Articles

Evolution of Human Skin Color

Evolution of human skin color

Skin Deep Article


Nina Jablonski-Ted Talk

Cooking and Human Evolution

1. Listen to podcast
2.  Read the article The Mind on Fire
3. Answer the following questions.
1. What 2 advances have humans carried with them all over the world?
2. How do humans burn most of their calorie budget?
3. How much of that budget is devoted to the brain?
4. If you are thinking really hard about the previous question how much greater has your calorie consumption become?
5. What is Wrangham's hypothesis?
6. How do raw food diets support his hypothesis?
7. Why should they be avoided by children?
8. Where is the majority of raw food digested and absorbed?
9. Where is the majority of cooked food absorbed?why?
10. What does cooking do to things like plant material and meat?
11. How did our body respond to cooking over time?
12. What is the name of Leslie Aiello and Peter Wheeler hypothesis?
13. How does their hypothesis differ from Wrangham's?
14. Why do human's prefer cooked foods? 
15. What compounds are associated with this?
16. What are these compounds?
17. According to Wrangham's hypothesis which of our ancestors mastered fire and cooking?
18. What is considered a major challenge to Wrangham's theory?
19. What are the benefits of fire?

Neanderthal DNA

Read article above

Based on the article answer (using data) the following questions.

1. How old are neanderthal?

• what did their migration pattern look like? (where and when did they arrive, travel, stay)

2. Did Neanderthal admix with modern human?

• Where and when did this happen?
• What evidence supports your statement?

Using the smithsonian website what other archeological evidence supports your claims

Email me your response

Neanderthal in the media

1. Create a list of terms that you associate with the human relative Neanderthal.
2. Do a google image search and create a graphic that represents how you believe the public perceives Neanderthal
3. For each of the stereotypes presented with either the list you have created or from the images you have chosen to use attempt to find evidence that would refute or rewrite our understanding (misunderstanding?) of Neanderthal.

You are to work in small groups (no more then 4) and turn in your product at the end of the period.

24 hour news cycle assignment

Create a popular media artifact that "exposes" the life of one of the early hominins.

This work can be done in the following groupings

solo
Groups of 2 or 3

For each person in the group a unique artifact must be created

The following "rock stars" of the early hominins are the subject of your "investigative reporting"

• Sahelanthropus tchadensis
• Ardipithecus ramidus
• Orrorin tugenensis
• Austrolopithicus anamensis
• Austrolopithicus afarensis
• Kenyanthropus platyops
• Australopithicus garhi
• Paranthropus aethiopicus
• Paranthropus boisei
• Australopithicus africanus
• Paranthropus robustus
• Homo habilis

Information that needs to be imbedded into the project includes all relevant, physical, geological, evolutionary, taxonomic, biological,ecological, anthropological evidence that explains the importance of your specific example in understanding early hominins role in our own evolutionary history.

Make sure you draw connections to other hominins as well as a thorough explanation of the researchers that are credited with the find(s)

What is Human?

1. Read the handout given in class

• Answer the following questions

1. What are the key features that define Hominins? 
2. How did those key features change over time?
3. Did these features all evolve at the same time? What pattern of evolution did these features follow?
4. How were Humans traditionally classified? What is the correct term for humans?
5. What is biocultural evolution? Give 3 examples  

2. Technology # 4
Research how stone tools are made.
Each of the following archeological industries has their own unique method for stone tool production. Your fieldbook report should follow the following format.

• General description of the types of lithic reduction techniques
• Percussion reduction
• Projectile percussion
• Bipolar percussion
• Hard Hammer percussion
• Soft Hammer percussion
• Indirect percussion
• Pressure Flaking
• Identify the type of material that would have been appropriate for stone tool production.
• Include both the type of stone being made into the tool as well as the types of material used by the creator to do the work of making the tool.
• Description of how each industry was unique. Include specific examples for each industry including the location, time, and culture that used the industry type.
• Oldowan
• Acheulean
• Mousterian
• Aurignacian
• Microlithic
• Neolithic

Geologic timeline lab Assessment

Using the timeline your group created answer the following questions.

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

Technology #3

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)

Rapanui post infographic review

Self and peer review



Assessment of another groups project

Rapanui infographic assignment

Your task is to create an infographic that allows an individual to access who were the people of Rapanui and what happened to them?


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.

Applied anthropology

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.

Paleoforensics Otzi and the Iceman Murder mystery

1. Watch film Iceman Murder Mystery

2. Answer Questions during film

Assignment 2

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.

Class assignment list

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

Fieldbook set up and technology assignment #1

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 Introductions

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

Evolution of human skin color

Skin Deep Article


Nina Jablonski-Ted Talk

Human expansion

Start with 

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

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.

Becoming Human Map Assignment

Map Assignment



Maps for use with plotting assignment
Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

South America

World map

Becoming Human

Becoming Human Part 1 video

Becoming Human Part 2 video

Becoming Human Part 3 Video

Video Notes 1

Video Notes 2

Video Notes 3

Video Questions