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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Unit 1: Geography

Essential Question: Is your geography your destiny?

Lesson #6

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Warm-up “History is the witness that testifies to the passing

of time.” – Cicero

“There is no history; only biography.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only a good for nothing is not interested in his past.” – Sigmund Freud

“The supreme purpose of history is a better world.” – Herbert Hoover

“History is not what you thought. It is what you remember. All other history defeats itself.” – R.J. Yeatman

Journal: Full sentences for full credit Use the quotes to help you to Define history in your own

words.

How do we learn about the past?

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

What is history?

History is a study of past events; story of human affairs in past events

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5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

How do we learn about the first humans?

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

How do we learn about the past?

Anthropologist: a social scientist who studies humankind

Archeologists: an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture.

Geologists: a specialist in the earth’s physical structure and substance, its history and the processes that act on it.

Historians: a social scientist of history

Artifacts: an object made by a human being

Ruins: remains; building in a state of decay, collapse or disintegration

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Who was Lucy?

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Hominid Species Chart Form small groups (2-4)

Each group will be assigned a species of hominid

Look in the textbook and read about your species

Fill out the chart – complete with a drawing and description of physical appearance and description about the lifestyle of that species

You will be expected to present your findings to the class

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Reflection*

Journal: Full sentences for full credit What is one distinguishing factor (thing that

is different) about your hominid species?

How is the hominid species you’re researching similar and different from you?

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Homework* None

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Warm-up

Journal: Full sentences for full credit Take out your Hominid species chart

Take out a textbook and open to the page about your hominid species

Make sure you aren’t missing any part of the Hominid Species Chart for YOUR species!

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Hominid Species ChartSpecies of

HominidPhysical Description & Drawing

Description of lifestyel

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Timelines BC = Before Christ

AD = “Anno Domini” = In the year of our lord (Latin)

BCE = Before Common Era

CE = Common Era

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5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Reflection Journal: Full sentences for full credit

How did the first humans interact with their environment?

How did the first humans interact with one another?

How did humans develop communities/civilizations?

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3. Vocab4. Article

5. Hominid Research

6. Presentation

7. Timeline8. Reflection

Homework Personal Timeline Project

Create a timeline of 10 important events in your life using the proper formatting and marking for a timeline