Thrive+or+Die+Investigation

**__//Explorations In Order with Learning Targets//__**

=Exploration 1: Thrive or Die? The Story of Hominids. =  __//**Weekly Break Down**//__
 * Big Questions
 * How have human ancestors survived and evolved into what we know today?
 * How can we learn about the past from evidence left today?
 * Learning Targets
 * I can use different geologic processes to draw conclusions about past communities.
 * I can define geologic and fossil time periods.
 * I can use the logic of layering to predict the age of artifacts.
 * I can analyze the similarities and differences between different hominids over time.
 * I can describe how the geologic history of the world affected communities over time.
 * I can identify and use the cyclic patterns of the Earth to predict strengths and weaknesses of past human cultures.
 * I can identify and describe large geologic changes during hominid evolution and migration.
 * I can identify patterns in glaciation, ocean level, and climates.
 * I can describe how climate patterns have affected Hominid migrations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can determine what a human culture needs to thrive.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can analyze the strengths and weaknesses of different communities using a Venn Diagram.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can define what a culture is.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can analyze hominid cultures to determine why some thrived and some died.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can think like an Archaeologist.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can collect and study evidence to support a conclusion.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can analyze the similarities and differences between different hominids over time.
 * I can define geologic and fossil time periods.I can define geologic and fossil time periods.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can collect and study evidence to support a conclusion.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sign up for "[|http:// polaris-7-8-science.wikispaces.com]"
 * 2) Sign up for wiki using First Initial (Capital) Last name initial (lower case)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Thinking like an Archaeologist lab (Scavenger Hunt)
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Quiz on the differences and similarities between the major hominids
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Vocabulary test 1
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Process Workshop for Human Migration
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Frames 101 Workshop
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can define geologic and fossil time periods.I can define geologic and fossil time periods.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can define what a culture is.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Critique on Draft one of "Human Migration"
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Quiz on geologic and fossil time periods.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Timeline Workshop
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Class definition of "culture" and how it may have looked for different hominids.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sorting and classifying evidence Lab
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can use the logic of layering to predict the age of artifacts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can identify and describe large geologic changes during hominid evolution and migration.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Google Maps Workshop
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Use Google Maps and <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 144%;">" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[]" to complete the "The journey to H. sapians" using Google Maps.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Draft 2 of "Human Migration"
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Content Workshop
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Vocab test 2
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can describe how climate patterns have affected Hominid migrations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can analyze the strengths and weaknesses of different communities using a Venn Diagram.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Identify different geologic times from road cuts in 287
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Lab on "How old are you?" Evidence and inference using geologic layering.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Work time for "Human Migration" project.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Self assessment for learning targets.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can identify patterns in glaciation, ocean level, and climates.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can analyze hominid species and communities to determine why some thrived and some died. Exploration 2: Change and Interactions
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Critique Workshop
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Quiz on "Folsom is more then a prison; the Lindenmeir site and why Fort Collins Rocks."
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Finished Rough Draft of "Human Migration" Project to be posted on the wikispace
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The story of the Neanderthals and the mystery of the "Hobbit"
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Quiz on the Neanderthal migration pattern.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Erosion Lab and what it means for Archeologists.
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The role of evidence
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can describe how climate patterns have affected Hominid migrations.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Final "Human Migration" Project is to be presented to the class
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Final assessment on "Thrive or Die" Expedition.

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Exploration 2: Big Bang or Boom: Volcanoes, Earthquakes & Plate Techtonics =
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Big Questions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">What processes within the earth contributes to geologic activity?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Learning Targets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can identify and describe volcanic activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can differentiate between types of volcanoes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can describe the processes that form volcanoes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can describe volcanic eruption characteristics, like pyroclastic flows
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can describe the major earth structures that contribute to volcano
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can identify and describe earthquake activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I explain why 'the ground shakes'
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can describe what causes tsunamis
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I can explain the deep earth characteristics like plate boundries that contribute to earthquakes

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 * * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Archeology
 * || [[image:230px-Homo_ergaster.jpg width="298" height="354"]] || [[image:282px-Neanderthalensis.jpg width="195" height="419"]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || [[image:450px-Homo_erectus.JPG width="315" height="420"]] || [[image:456px-Homo_habilis-KNM_ER_1813.jpg width="272" height="359"]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || [[image:620px-Homo_heidelbergensis-Cranium_-5.jpg width="310" height="299"]] || [[image:477px-Neanderthal_child.jpg width="237" height="299"]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
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 * [[file:Early Human Culture2.ppt]]
 * [[file:culture_hominids.doc]]
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Early Hominid Fossils <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Migration
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 * A list of fossil evidence including location and believed Genus and species
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 * A less reliable list of fossil evidence, but some good information
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 * Two excellent web activities, one on comparing skeletons, and another on comparing DNA of humans and their close relatives
 * [|http://www.handprint.com/LS/ANC/disp.html]
 * Excellent map showing different migration patterns of hominids
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 * Fun, interactive hominid timeline with lots of information on fossils and culture of different genus and species of hominids.
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 * A nice site focusing in on the skull fossils of different hominids
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 * Amazing interactive world atlas showing different migration paths of early and late hominids. The material is a bit thick, but great pictures and purposed migration routes
 * [|H. Sapien, H. Ergaster, Neanderthalensis Migration and Climate]
 * [|Migration Map of all Hominids]

Climate

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 * Homonid timelines***
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Frames || [[file:Frames4_UserGuide.pdf]] || [[file:frames_animate.pdf]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || [|Animate a Face] || [|Recipes4Success (Frames)] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Geology || [[file:Pangea.PDF]] || [[file:Continental_Plates.PDF]] ||  || [[file:Gneiss_Granite.PDF]] ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || [[file:Colorado_Cross_Section.PDF]] || [[file:Era_Period_Epoch.PDF]] ||  || [[file:Igneous_sedimentary.PDF]] ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || [[file:RMNP.PDF]] || [[file:RMNP_Cross_Section.PDF]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || [[image:287_road.jpg width="614" height="1065" caption="Geology_Northern CO"]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Ancient Denver || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Ancient Denver || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Artwork By || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Vriesen || [[image:37_mya.jpg width="193" height="152" caption="37 Million Years Ago"]] || [[image:16,000_ya.jpg width="177" height="157" caption="16,000 Years Ago"]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Braginetz and Staab ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Weather || [[file:Colorado_Mountain_Weather.PDF]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Ecology || [[file:Colorado_Rain_Temp_Growing.PDF]] || [[file:Colorado_Eco_N_S_Distribution.PDF]] ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Pictures || Image Resources: [|Picnik] ; [|Flickr Creative Commons Searching] ;[|Flickr Storm][|Morguefile], [|Edupic] [|Pics4Learning]~ ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * **Rubrics** || || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Human Migration Project || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="file/view/human_migration_rubric.pdf"]] human_migration_rubric.pdf ||  ||
 * || * [|Assignment 1 Tutorial]
 * [|How To Do Different Things] ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Time Line Rubric || [[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/vnd.ms-excel.png width="32" height="32" link="file/view/Copy of hominid_graph_rubric.xls"]] Copy of hominid_graph_rubric.xls ||  || ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||