RED SLIDE: These are notes that are very important and should be recorded in your science journal. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

-Nice neat notes that are legible and use indentations when appropriate.

-Nice neat notes that are legible and use indentations when appropriate. -Example of indent.

-Nice neat notes that are legible and use indentations when appropriate. -Example of indent. -Skip a line between topics

-Nice neat notes that are legible and use indentations when appropriate. -Example of indent. -Skip a line between topics -Don’t skip pages

-Nice neat notes that are legible and use indentations when appropriate. -Example of indent. -Skip a line between topics -Don’t skip pages -Make visuals clear and well drawn.

Disaccharide

First Name, Last Name Science and Section

First Name, Last Name First Name, Last Name Science, and Section

First Name, Last Name Science and Section Treat this journal with care and respect. It will be very helpful for the bundled homework package.

First Name, Last Name Science and Section

Your journal is your responsibility. If it becomes lost or damaged it will significantly reduce your grade.

RED SLIDE: These are notes that are very important and should be recorded in your science journal. BLACK SLIDE: Pay attention, follow directions, complete projects as described and answer required questions neatly. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Keep an eye out for “The-Owl” and raise your hand as soon as you see him. –He will be hiding somewhere in the slideshow Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Keep an eye out for “The-Owl” and raise your hand as soon as you see him. –He will be hiding somewhere in the slideshow “Hoot, Hoot” “Good Luck!” Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conservations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conservations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conservations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conservations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conversations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conversations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conversations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conversations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conversations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conversations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conversations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conversations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Class Expectations –You can show respect by… Listening when the teacher or others are talking. –One speaker at a time, please raise your hand. Please no cross-room conversations during work time. –You can be responsible by… Staying organized and avoiding distraction. Staying focused on task completion. –You can make good choices by… Attending class regularly Doing your best and never giving up. –Be Safe! First, last, and always. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

New Area of Focus: Human evolution. New Area of Focus: Human evolution. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

What’s wrong with this cartoon? Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Answer! Dinosaurs and people did not coexist. They are separated by 65 million years of evolution. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Answer! Dinosaurs and people did not coexist. They are separated by 65 million years of evolution. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy Not sure if children with such large heads can pass through such a narrow pelvis.

Remember, dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago. –Mammals emerged after the KT event / volcanic debris / and microbes that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Remember, dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago. –Mammals emerged after the KT event / volcanic debris / and microbes that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Earliest primate fossil (Ida) –47 million years old. –Early linage that may have given rise to modern monkeys and apes. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Earliest primate fossil (Ida) –47 million years old. –Early linage that may have given rise to modern monkeys and apes. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Earliest primate fossil (Ida) –47 million years old. –Early linage that may have given rise to modern monkeys and apes. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Hominid: Any of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals comprising recent humans. Hominid: Any of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals comprising recent humans. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Opposable thumb – Gripping (most primates have). Opposable thumb – Gripping (most primates have). Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Activity! 1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a…

Activity! 1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a… Thumb War

Power grip. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

The power grip was believed to help human break bones / scavenge animal remains with a sharp pointed rock called a hand axe. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Vultures are a clear sign that an animal is dead. Easily seen from a distance for early Hominids on the dry African savannah.

Precision grip Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Stone tools advanced to become more precision based. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Stone tools advanced to become more precision based. Allowing early hominids to cut, and eventually being a part of weapons such as spears. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Stone tools advanced to become more precision based. Allowing early hominids to cut, and eventually being a part of weapons such as spears. (A long period of time for this advancement). Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Photo of Orangutang stabbing fish with spear. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Activity! Please untie and then tie your shoes without use of your thumbs. –For those without laces, please organize your binder. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Activity! Please untie and then tie your shoes without use of your thumbs. –For those without laces, please organize your binder. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Which one is a picture of a human hand?

Bipedalism: Walking on two feet (regularly). Bipedalism: Walking on two feet (regularly). Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Laetoli footprints – Dated 3.6 million years ago.

Not bipedal! Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

How does a drying landscape cause a primate to become bipedal? –Africa began to dry 5-8 million years ago. The lush forest turned into Savannah. How does this change lead to a change in hominid behavior and physiology? Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

How does a drying landscape cause a primate to become bipedal? –Africa began to dry 5-8 million years ago. The lush forest turned into Savannah. How does this change lead to a change in hominid behavior and physiology? Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

How does a drying landscape cause a primate to become bipedal? –Africa began to dry 5-8 million years ago. The lush forest turned into Savannah. How does this change lead to a change in hominid behavior and physiology? Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

How does a drying landscape cause a primate to become bipedal? –Africa began to dry 5-8 million years ago. The lush forest turned into Savannah. How does this change lead to a change in hominid behavior and physiology? Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Hominids had to travel over greater and greater distances over time. Standing tall allowed hominids to see over the grasses, and traveling on two feet became easier than four. The life in the trees became a life on the ground. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Hominids had to travel over greater and greater distances over time. Standing tall allowed hominids to see over the grasses, and traveling on two feet became easier than four. The life in the trees became a life on the ground. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Hominids had to travel over greater and greater distances over time. Standing tall allowed hominids to see over the grasses, and traveling on two feet became easier than four. The life in the trees became a life on the ground. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Hominids had to travel over greater and greater distances over time. Standing tall allowed hominids to see over the grasses, and traveling on two feet became easier than four. The life in the trees became a life on the ground. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Lots of new evidence suggests that Africa went through serious environmental shifts during this period. –From lush and wet, to dry, and then back again. –This shifting was believed to have accelerated evolution. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Lots of new evidence suggests that Africa went through serious environmental shifts during this period. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Lots of new evidence suggests that Africa went through serious environmental shifts during this period. –From lush and wet, Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Lots of new evidence suggests that Africa went through serious environmental shifts during this period. –From lush and wet, to dry, Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Lots of new evidence suggests that Africa went through serious environmental shifts during this period. –From lush and wet, to dry, and then back again. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Lots of new evidence suggests that Africa went through serious environmental shifts during this period. –From lush and wet, to dry, and then back again. –This shifting was believed to have accelerated evolution. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

You can now complete this question on the bundled homework.

Hominids first appeared roughly 7 million years ago (A blink in geologic time). Hominids first appeared roughly 7 million years ago (A blink in geologic time).

People are not really correct when they assume people just came from monkeys. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Humans are instead just a branch from a tree which includes thousands of primates, some still around, most have gone extinct. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Humans are instead just a branch from a tree which includes thousands of primates, some still around, most have gone extinct. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Humans are instead just a branch from a tree which includes thousands of primates, some still around, most have gone extinct. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

There are many connections and similarities that people share with primates. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

There are many connections and similarities that people share with primates. –Our DNA is close to 94% the same as a chimpanzee. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

There are many connections and similarities that people share with primates. –Our DNA is close to 94% the same as a chimpanzee. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

There are many connections and similarities that people share with primates. –Our DNA is close to 94% the same as a chimpanzee. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

Humans are closer genetically to chimps than horses are to zebras. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

You could get both a heart and blood transfusion from a chimpanzee. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

You could get both a heart and blood transfusion from a chimpanzee. “Your not getting my heart you crazy human.” Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

First hominid found in 1924 (Leakey’s) at Olduvai Gorge. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

First hominid found in 1924 (Leakey’s) at Olduvai Gorge. Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy “I wonder if the teacher will use our names on the review game?”

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