Project

Update due to Covid19: You can still access your powerpoint project from home, details are here.  When completed, share the powerpoint with me and I can access your powerpoint and put it onto Zoom as a shared screen.  The important thing is your speech, which your powerpoint may help, but feel free to do your presentation without the powerpoint.

We have covered about 195,000 years of history. Click on the link above, Early People to Rome, to peruse what we have covered. Take your time on these links, find something that attracts your fancy to do a project on it. Blog below what your project topic will be. The teacher will publish your post to signify approval.

Read up on your topic, take your time, become our class expert.

Then create a presentation on your topic.

You will need to have a 2 1/2minute speech (150 seconds) with 10 pictures for your presentation.



Things to focus on:
1. Why they/are/it is famous.
2. Impact on today’s society?
3. How they/it advanced science/technology/literature/government/other?


You will be marked on the following:
1. The information presented.
2. Information being presented in an interesting manner.
3. Pictures used (make them relevant).

Rubric to come next week.

Step 1 READ

Step 2 Choose a Topic

Step 3 READ some MORE

Step 4 Gather Notes (15 marks)

______ Title (name of event/person/activity,and your name) 1 mark-Keep focused on the topic

_______Who/What (describe major people/groups/event/action/activity involved) 1-See above-Focus!

 ______ When (period it took place, try and be very specific)1-Focus

_______How (How it worked, happened, was created/created change)Multiple Marks

 ______ Why (purpose/significance of event/action/activity/person) was important. Impact on us today? Multiple Marks

 ______ Interesting facts and explanations Multiple Marks

Step 5 Presenting the Information (5 marks)

Finding a way to present the above notes during our physical isolation time

Sources for ALL FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Farming and Society

Civilization-as in the movie above, can be defined as a culture that meets all its food needs from farming. Below are some other definitions from a dictionary.  

 "the act or process of civilizing, as by bringing out of a savage, uneducated, or unrefined state, or of being civilized"

"the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced"

1. How might the above common two definitions from a dictionary civilization be ethnocentric? 

2. What is the general difference in opinion in the 2 movie clips about how agriculture changed society?

Agrarian Societies Start

Civilization is a word with loaded meanings. Often the word is used to describe societies that are agriculturally based. To get a sense of timelines and the passage of history, answer the following questions. These questions are all a review.

1. As a review,  where are the earliest Homo Sapiens (us)  remains found and how old are those remains.

2. Review again, when did people take the Great Leap forward and what was that leap. (hint, if you don't get this, you too might have to go back 50,000 years hehehe)

3. What climatic event had to end for agriculture to begin?

4. What materials did people, Homo Sapiens, need to start agriculture?

5. About when did agriculture start?

6. Is agriculture the domestication of plants, the domestication of animals, or . . . ?

7. The development of Agrarian societies led to the Neolithic revolution. What is an agrarian society?

8. How does agriculture lead to specialization?

9. What is specialization (asked the grade 8 Manitoba Social Studies teacher)?

10. What happened to equality in societies dependent on agriculture for food, like ours? Give an example

Early People

Timeline Early People

Journey of Mankind (open in Explorer, neat site)

Timeline of Human Evolution (going way, way back)

From the timelines above, and/or from your note frame where all this information should already be,  find the dates below

-People first Appeared-Time and Location

-Nearly Wiped out when and by what

-Great Leap Forward happened when and was

-Height of last Ice Age was

-Ice Age ended about

-Agriculture as a lifestyle (civilization)


In the handout box, is a power-point template called Early People. On the template, put in the 6 dates
above. Add a picture and a brief description to go with each of your dates.

Our closest relatives

Life on Earth

Here is an interactive timeline about life on Earth as presently understood by scientists 

Here is another timeline with more detail

Early People and Evolution

The Theory of Evolution, first put forth in a book by Darwin called On the Origin of Species, is all about species changing because of adaptations they make to adjust to the environment. The theory also states that besides changing, some species die off because they weren't able to make the adaptations necessary.  There are theories that this happened to the Neanderthals; that they couldn't adapt to the increasing coldness of the Ice Age and/or adapt to the encroachment of homo sapiens upon their territory. The process of making adaptations and surviving or failing to adapt and dying off is called Natural Selection.

This is a theory. Proof is used in Mathematics and Philosophy, but isn't a scientific term. Science is the process of gathering evidence, forming predictions, and then testing those predictions. The theory of Gravity is an example. From the understanding of this theory, scientist are able to send a space probe over 6 billion Kilometres into space and land, safely, on a comet reaching speeds higher than 130,000 km/h

Read here about Neanderthals.