Unit 1: Geography
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Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
3. Vocab4. Article
5. Hominid Research
6. Presentation
7. Timeline8. Reflection
Unit 1: Geography
Essential Question: Is your geography your destiny?
Lesson #6
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
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?
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
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
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
3. Vocab4. Article
5. Hominid Research
6. Presentation
7. Timeline8. Reflection
How do we learn about the first humans?
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
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Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
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
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
3. Vocab4. Article
5. Hominid Research
6. Presentation
7. Timeline8. Reflection
Who was Lucy?
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
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Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
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
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
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?
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
3. Vocab4. Article
5. Hominid Research
6. Presentation
7. Timeline8. Reflection
Homework* None
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
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!
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
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Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
3. Vocab4. Article
5. Hominid Research
6. Presentation
7. Timeline8. Reflection
Hominid Species ChartSpecies of
HominidPhysical Description & Drawing
Description of lifestyel
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
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
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
3. Vocab4. Article
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?
Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from?How did the first humans interact with their environment?
Worksheet #
Agenda:1. Warm-up2. Mini-less
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