Great Job to all students who finished and displayed their projects. I am so proud of everyone who worked hard on this project and can't wait to see what you come up with next. Check out all classes work in the video below!
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Today was the last day for in class research and work on our "What Makes Us Human" project. Museum displays are due at the beginning of class Tuesday November 7. Remember that your display has your model and display label which needs to be printed out before you get to class.
![]() Students are continuing to research their human history projects and are beginning to design and build their museum displays. The Smithsonian has excellent resources on human origins and you can check out their research page by clicking the handprint to the right. Click the link and tour the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HistoryStudents are really digging deep into their research and have the next two days to work in class. Below is an example project of what their museum display could look like. Also, for students that are making models, I've attached a link to the instructions on making "salt dough" which is a cheap and easy modelling material you can make at home, bake and paint to create whatever model you want. Click to learn how to make "Salt Dough" that you can use as modelling clay for your project.Human History Online Quiz
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Today students played "Caveman Pictionary" drawing only by candle light with chalk on the wall. We also watched a short clip about a recently discovered human ancestor.
As we study what it means to be human, we are looking at different changes and events throughout the 250,000 years of human history. We are starting with the development of tools and technology that resulted from ever increasing collective learning among humans. Students built atlatls and threw darts on the football field to get familiar with an ancient hunting technology that allowed our ancestors to hunt the mega-fauna of the ice-age. Atlatls continue to be use around the world for hunting and fishing. If you want to make your own atlatl with simple materials the directions are below. Make your own Atlatl and DartAs we continue to explore evolution we are starting to narrow our focus on how humans have evolved over time and the bigger question of, what makes us human? Today we watched the Crash Course episode on Human Evolution and talked about our common ancestors with a variety of human-like and non-human ancestors. Tomorrow we will apply our understanding of early human technology to make atlatls to try and throw our darts as far as we can. |
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