1. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.Reflection Unit 1: Geography Essential Question: Is your geography your destiny? Lesson #6

2. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.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?

3. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.Reflection What is history?  History is a study of past events; story of human affairs in past events

4. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.Reflection How do we learn about the first humans?

5. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.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

6. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.Reflection Who was Lucy?

7. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.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

8. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.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?

9. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.Reflection Homework *  None

10. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.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!

11. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.Reflection Hominid Species Chart Species of HominidPhysical Description & Drawing Description of lifestyel

12. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.Reflection Timelines  BC = Before Christ  AD = “Anno Domini” = In the year of our lord (Latin)  BCE = Before Common Era  CE = Common Era

13. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.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?

14. Daily Questions: Where did the first humans come from? How did the first humans interact with their environment? Worksheet # Agenda: 1.Warm-up 2.Mini-less 3.Vocab 4.Article 5.Hominid Research 6.Presentation 7.Timeline 8.Reflection Homework  Personal Timeline Project  Create a timeline of 10 important events in your life using the proper formatting and marking for a timeline