T Journey of Man Wednesday March 10, 2010

JOURNEY OF MAN

Please click on the links below and watch the videos that are found there.  I am skipping the questions for the last three videos.  See if you can pull out what you think is important without them.  If you need some help,let me know.

 

 

T Journey of Man Mods 5,6 Tuesday March 2, 2010

THE JOURNEY OF MAN

Please click on the links below and watch the videos that are found there.  The questions below are for you and I to discuss after you have watched the videos.

Part Nine Questions – These are questions that we will talk about after you finish each section.

1. Why does Spenser Wells have trouble crossing into Kazakhstan?
2. How long has Nyazov’s family been in Central Asia?
3. What did the ancestor’s of today’s Native American’s have to endure to reach the Americas?
4. Who are the Chukchi?

Part Ten Questions – These are questions that we will talk about after you finish each section.

1. What physical adaptations allow the Chukchi to live in the extreme conditions of the Arctic?
2. What animal is vital to the survival of the Chukchi?
3. What does reindeer taste like?

T Journey of Man Tuesday February 23, 2010

JOURNEY OF MAN

Please click on the links below and watch the videos that are found there.  The questions below are for you and I to discuss after you have watched the videos.

Part Seven Questions – These are questions that we will talk about after you finish each section.

1. The descendants of the people who migrated from Africa to Australia account for only 10% of the world’s population.  Where did everyone else come from?
2. Why might the second migration wave from Africa have taken a different route?
3. Where do human’s NOT go during the second wave?  Why is it strange that they are not found there until much later?
4. What does the cave art tell us about the journey that early European’s may have made?
5. What kinds of physical and technological changes happened as early Europeans became European

Part Eight Questions – These are questions that we will talk about after you finish each section.

1. What route did early Europeans take into Europe?
2. What is one reason that the migration to Europe went through Central Asia?
3. What does Spenser Wells mean in calling Africa the cradle of man and Central Asia the nursery?
4. Who is Nyasov and why is he important?

T Journey of Man Monday February 8, 2010

JOURNEY OF MAN

Please click on the links below and watch the videos that are found there.  The questions below are for you and I to discuss after you have watched the videos.

Part Five Questions – These are questions that we will talk about after you finish each section.

1)      How do current Aborigines react to Wells assertion that they came from Africa?

2)      Why is evidence of a coastal migration along southern Africa so hard to find?

3)      Where does Wells go to find DNA evidence of this migration?

4)      What kind of human group is Wells looking to test and why?

5)      Why does Wells only sample men?

6)      What does DNA look like?

7)      What are the letters in DNA?

1)      What is a sieve and why is it important to sorting DNA?

2)      What is Spencer Wells looking for as he watches the DNA sequences?

3)      What does the change from “C” to “T” in the DNA sequence represent?

4)      What does the change in DNA sequence prove?

5)      Why is the DNA evidence so important to figuring out how people got to Australia?

6)      When you look at the face of the man in India, does he look like the Australians and San Bushmen?

T Mods 5,6 Thursday February 4, 2010

JOURNEY OF MAN

Please click on the links below and watch the videos that are found there.  The questions below are for you and I to discuss after you have watched the videos.

Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M25Ez4HW104&feature=related

Part Three Questions – These are questions that we will talk about after you finish each section.

1)      What material did the San use for arrow tips?

2)      What were the advantages of the San ancestors over their competitors?

3)      What does the sharp edge of a hoof print tell about the animal who left it, and why was that such an important idea for the San ancestors to understand?

4)      How are these advantages tied to language?

5)      What does Spencer Wells learn about human development from the cave?

Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA3aINMIWMw&feature=related

Part Four Questions – These are questions that we will talk about after you finish each section.

1)      What happened 50,000 years ago to the people of the cave?

2)      Where does human evidence turn up after Africa?

3)      Why are Australian plants and animals so different those found in other parts of the world?

4)      When do humans show up in Australia?

5)      How does Wells believe people came to Australia?

6)      What evidence does he have for how Africans came to Australia?

T Mods 5,6 Monday January 4, 2010

JOURNEY OF MAN

Please click on the links below and watch the videos that are found there.  The questions below are for you and I to discuss after you have watched the videos.

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV6A8oGtPc4

Part One Questions – These are questions that we will talk about after you finish each section.

1)      What is the time machine that is being used to go back in time?

2)      What story does the scientist believe he has discovered?

3)      What does DNA have to do with history?

4)      What happened in the 1950s that allowed for the Journey of Man to be tracked?

5)      Where does the scientist believe that humanity began?

6)      What is the problem with the scientist’s story?

7)      What is the name of the people who live where the Journey of Man began?

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybji0axp6s0&feature=related

Part Two Questions – These are questions that we will talk about after you finish each section.

1)      How long ago does the scientist think the Journey of Man began?

2)      How does the scientist explain his relationship with the San Bushmen?

3)      What does the scientist say about the faces of the San Bushmen?

4)      What are the four letters of DNA?

5)      What are the “bundles” of DNA called?

6)      What is a mutation and why is it important to the scientist?

7)      What is a DNA marker?

8)       What is the scientist trying to explain with the monkey oranges?

9)      What is unique about genetic markers of the San Bushmen?

10)   What is unique about how the San speak?