Hominids and Early Man

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Permalink Reply by Sue Palmer on November 21, 2007 at 1:29pm

Dear Anne,

Very nicely done! May I add this to my masterycast on Early Man in the Subjects page at www.masterymaze.com? I will add it as a supplement for students/teachers who are looking for more information!

This is exactly what we are hoping to do at the site--We are looking for teachers who are interested in sharing their materials with the world. We will provide the platform and organize it in a meaningful way, by chapters much like a book, for use by teachers and students to obtain mastery of various topics. My students are using it extensively. As you know, the masterycasts are designed to cover and review some key ideas. This detail would be great to allow the inclusion students (both gen ed and classified) to dig deeper into the topic if they wish to!

It will be free and available to all-- That is what MasteryMaze is all about!

Thanks.

Sue Palmer aka The Maze

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Permalink Reply by Anne Pemberton on November 21, 2007 at 1:49pm

Sue,

Sure, put a link to the site. Glad you like it. I need to illustrate the page, and in roaming around getting the information, have an idea what I want to put on there, but I wanted first to be sure my content was accurate. Thanks for reviewing it.

And, this is just what I want my website to do - to supplement what the teachers are doing and provide resources for the teachers and the students to learn more about a subject. Like much of science, this will need me to review the new evidence from time to time. The information on the probability that Neanderthal Man and Cro-Magnon Man got hitched and had kiddies is really new and perhaps speculative, although it seems pretty evident that the similarities between Neanderthal Man and Eskimos and other artic dwellers, as well as the similarities of noses to those who still live on the Iberian Peninsula seems apparent to me. But, the original information I found said that they did not intermarry and Neanderthal Man simply vanished from the gene pool. Perhaps I should add that caveat to the page so that in the future, users of the page will be forewarned to check out the latest information.

See, we can work together!!!

Anne

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Permalink Reply by Sue Palmer on November 21, 2007 at 2:34pm

Perfect-- And you can link back to mine! That is collaborating! Now, I have to get back to searching for that low fat pumkin pie recipe! (Not that it is going to help much)

Have a nice day!

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Permalink Reply by Anne Pemberton on November 21, 2007 at 3:02pm

Sue,

I will link to you before the weekend is over. As to low-fat pumpkin pie, perhaps is you use canned skim milk instead of regular canned milk that will work. I have no idea how you would make pie crust low fat!

Have a wonderful day tomorrow, and count, among your blessings, that we will be workiing together - for the kids!

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Permalink Reply by Sue Palmer on November 24, 2007 at 9:41pm

Hi Anne,

I hope you had a nice holiday. I just finished adding the link to your page from my Early Man podcast. I see you have posted a link to my site as well. Thanks for you wonderful addition!

Take a look at the other topics on the site, and if you have similar material or would like to create some, I would be happy to link back and forth. In Ancient World History I am just starting the Roman Empire so there is plenty there with Egypt, Greece, etc if you would like to use those topics. I will be covering through the Age of Exploration, but if you have something modern you would like to cover, I can always create a podcast and page for it.

In US History, I am just starting westward expansion and will have the entire course through Sept 11 by the end of the year. (by May I hope).

If you have anything else you would like to include in any of the other subjects, I can certainly do a podcast for it and create a page. All I need is a general script and we can go from there! I am looking for people to work with on creating content for the Maze, so I am happy to put it on the list. For me the script is half the battle.

This is awesome!

Thanks again! Feel free to email me as well- My email is available on my page here or you can reach me through the Contact page on my site.

Sue Palmer

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Permalink Reply by Anne Pemberton on November 25, 2007 at 4:57am

Sue,

Yesterday I worked on the illustrations for the page, finding them, and getting them to the sizes I need. There will be smaller pictures on the page with links to a larger version of each picture. Some of the fossil evidence is small fragments of bones, and the kids may well wonder how they can determine so much from bone fragments. There are links to the sites that explain the fossils. I hope to get the page finished and uploaded today. I will get your email address and put you on the mailing list for the monthly newsletter, so you will know what content is being added each month.

Another source for history information, in addition to the Famous Americans mentioned to Lil KK, are the History Hat stories. They are personalized stories that take a person or event in hisotry and put the reader right into the action. Your students may be a bit old for many of the stories, which are written for the youngest kids, but some of the stories are getting more developed as I go, and may be of interest to your students. The newest story is one on Teddy Roosevels, http://www.educationalsynthesis.org/books/History/RideTeddy.html ...

After I finish up the science materials I have been working on this month, I want to tackle the history of the ancient civilizations. I know there is a lot of information out there to link together.

I am also starting work on a story about Cabezo de Vaca, a spaniard who explored the coast of Texas into Mexico.

I have been doing some reading the past few months, on the time of Exploration and Discovery. If you have not read the book "1421", you may want to put it on your list. Historians have panned the book badly as "speculative" and without proof of the assertions, but I am convinced that the book adds something to what we know of history and the contributions of the Chinese to exploration. I have seen independent information that suggests tha tthe Chinese explored the west coast of the Americas and some of their culture got mixed into that of the Natives. Another book that speculate on Europeans as early as 1000 AD who colonized Canada, but who were either merged into the population or disappeared by the time Cabot made his explorations. It is a fascinating area of study. The book on this early civilization is "The Farfarers" by Farley Mowat. It is a really good book that your students may enjoy reading.

Anne

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Permalink Reply by Anne Pemberton on November 25, 2007 at 7:44pm

Oops,

Did some remodeling on the website. The page on Hominids has been redone and can be seen at : http://www.educationalsynthesis.org/mrsp/science/Biology/Humans/Hom...

Sue,

When you check it out,, picture the pictures in each table as showing on a pod screen, with the voice-over reading what is there or re-writing what is there as desired. You can see the rest of the fossil pix I collected by looking at http://www.educationalsynthesis.org/mrsp/science/Biology/Humans/Fos... ... Got most of those pictures all at one site,and din't save all collectable pictures since the looked like too small a fragment for the kids to discover anything in the picture. I have most of the pictures I like on the himinids page, but the "unchosen ones" are on the fossil page. Perhaps they could be used in a Flash lesson.

Anne

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