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1. Date: 9.21.12 A 9.24.12 B How do social scientists use artifacts to learn about a society or civilization? Being a Social Scientist & Lascaux Cave Painting Class Work: • Warm Up – Check HW- Lat/Long WS • Define Archeology, Anthropology, Artifacts and how they study Culture • Social Scientist WS in groups • Present findings about artifacts • Artifact Analysis – Lascaux Cave Painting • Lascaux Cave Painting reading-read in pairs • WIO • Go over HW Warm Up: What do you think a social scientist is? Would it be something you would like to do? WIO: Culture is a shared practice, belief, attitude, or behavior of a group. We learn a culture from friends, family, media, government, and religious institutions. What objects might best represent parts of your culture? List at least 5. • HW: The Lascaux Cave Painting is an estimated 17,000 years old and tells us much about the society that created it. Now, imagine people in the future have discovered a “cave painting” about our society. What would people discover about us? • Write a paragraph to answer the question. Pick one or two items and explain how and what they show about our culture. Could be something personal or something that is of a larger group. Page 13 Page 14

2. Date: 9.25.12 A 9.26.12 B Why/How do historians use a common dating system to recognizing the beginning phases of human species? Understanding BC, BCE, AD, and CE Class Work: Warm Up: Make an educated guess. What do BC, AD, BCE, and CE stand for? Put the following dates in order of when they happened. A. Declaration of Independence – 1776 A.D. B. Columbus comes to the New World – 1492 A.D. C. Adena culture begins in Ohio - 800 B.C. D. Roman Republic is established – 509 B.C. • Warm Up – Check HW-Culture Paragraph-Share in pairs. • Notes- What is this BCE, CE, BC, and AD? • Timeline Activity • WIO • Discovery Video Clip • Go over HW WIO: Answer in complete sentences: What did you think of the timeline activity? Did it help you understand the differences between BC, BCE, AD and CE better? Explain. • HW: • Read over Hominid Chart. • Using the Hominid Chart, put the various hominids in chronologic order, on the timeline, according to when they came into being. Page 15 Page 16

3. Date: 9.26.12 A 9.26.12 B What are the significant characteristics about various types of hominids? Caveman Catastrophe Class Work: Warm Up: Use your hominid chart to answer the following questions. Which hominid do the following statements describe? I walk on two feet, am about 5 feet tall, and I was the first hominid to make fires. I am from Europe and central to southwestern Asia, and I was the first early human to have a language. • Warm Up – Check HW- Hominid Timeline • Pass back quizzes and maps • Watch “Caveman Catastrophe” • Pair/Share video questions • WIO • HW—Return Progress Report with parent signature WIO: 3-2-1 about hominids 3 – Write 3 things you have learned about hominids 2- Write 2 facts you thought were really interesting (these need to be different than the 3 things you learned) 1- Write 1 question you still have about early humans. • HW: • Redo Imagination Nation Map, if necessary • Return Progress Report with Parent Signature!!! Page 17 Page 18