(12/11-12/15) Week 1 Agenda-2

Monday December 11

• Objective: To put the final wraps on our first major project of the year and discuss what worked well for us and what could have gone differently.
• Entry:
  • Discuss with your group:
    • What were the best things about this project?
    • What were the worst parts?
    • If you had to do it again, what would you want to see changed from how it was set-up/administered?
• Activity:
  • Project Debrief
  • Project Reflection

Tuesday December 12

• Objective:  To introduce Unit 2 and generate questions we need to answer for the unit.
• Entry:
  • When did Homo Sapiens (modern humans) show up on our planet. Where?
  • What other species of humans populated the planet before and during the time of early homo sapiens?
  • What do you think the most important characteristics that allowed humans to become the dominant species on the planet were/are?
• Activity:
  • Overview of Unit 2: The elevator pitch summary. Links to an external site.
    • Unit Goals:
      • Be able to explain how humans moved from "just a species" occupying one are of the planet, to "THE species" that impacts the environments for nearly all other species on earth.
      • Be able to explain how, and offer informed ideas as to why, humans made the change from foragers to farmers.
      • Be able to describe the impact the agricultural revolution had on how humans organize their societies.
      • Be able to identify key factors that have led and continue to lead to people moving around the world.
      • Identify and discuss solutions for the human impacts of migration (and the factors that cause it) in the past and present.
  • What are some key questions we need to answer, or solidify our answers to, in order to achieve these goals?
• Closing: What are you most looking forward to learning about this unit?

Wednesday/ Thursday December 13/14

• Objective: To understand the large scale timeline of human history and determine some key factors that have allowed us to be so successful as a species.
• Entry:
  • On the geologic timescale, how long have humans been on earth?
  • What was the lifestyle of the earliest modern humans?
  • Estimate a rough percentage: How much of or history happened before the agricultural revolution/ how long have we been farming? (%/%)
• Activity:
  • Looking at Geologic time scales Links to an external site.
  • Crash Course Big History: Human Evolution Links to an external site.
  • Document Close Read.(SCUBA) Links to an external site.
    • Human Communities Populate the Earth Links to an external site.
    • Answer and Discuss: 
      • What happened to the other early (non-homo sapien) species that used to populate earth?
      • When and where did humans originate on earth? 
      • What do you think caused them to move around the rest of the world?
      • How were they able to do that?
• Closing: What questions do you still have about early humans?

Friday December 15

• Objective: To discuss "Human Communities Populate the Earth" and get our Unit 1 project grades back.
• Entry:
  • What happened to the other early (non-homo sapien) species that used to populate earth?
  • When and where did humans originate on earth? 
  • What do you think caused them to move around the rest of the world?
  • How were they able to do that?
• Activity:
  
  • Get rubrics back. Go over resubmissions.