Saturday, April 23, 2011

About our story, Human Being

This is a marvellous interactive documentary by Donald Johanson about the origin of human beings.

*Donald Johanson is an american paleoanthropologist known for the discovery of Lucy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Johanson

Really interesting! I really recommend it:

http://www.becominghuman.org/node/interactive-documentary

And int he same link you have this timeline:
http://www.becominghuman.org/node/human-lineage-through-time


Here you have some games about the evolution and similiarities between humans and apes:

http://www.becominghuman.org/node/chromosome-connection

http://www.becominghuman.org/node/building-bodies

Isis and Osiris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcxgzMwcqN8

http://www.mythicjourneys.org/bigmyth/2_eng_myths.htm

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/story/main.html

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

THE HISTORY OF INVENTION AND TECHNOLOGY: FIRE




From: http://biombohistorico.blogspot.com/2011/02/en-busca-del-fuego.html

Stone Age tools






From: http://biombohistorico.blogspot.com/2011/02/industrias-liticas.html

I'm sorry it is in Spanish, but I think it is worth watching!

Using measurements of time and chronology

COUNTING YEARS

WHEN we count the years we establish a chronology. The British system uses ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 14th, 21st…) while the Spanish system uses Roman numbers (s.I, s.II, s.III, s.XIV, s.XXI)

10 years - a decade

100 years – a century (e.g. 1st century-s.I from the year 101 to 200)

1,000 years - a millennium (e.g. 2nd millenium-s.XX from the year 1001 to 2000)

Today we are in the CHRISTIAN ERA. Our era began 2006 years ago, when Christ was born.

Dates before Christ: BC

Dates after Christ: AD (Anno Domini)

PLACING EVENTS IN TIME: the timeline

6000.BC 476.AD 1492 1789

Writing appears Collapse Discovery French Revolution

Year 0 Roman Empire America

/ / / / /

Prehistory Ancient Age Middle Ages Modern Age Contemporary Age

Exercises:

1. Write down the centuries for these years (use both the English and the Roman systems):

e.g.: 124 = 2nd century - siglo II

370 BC 84 BC 2100 BC 683 BC

739 215 BC 181 100

1767 1323 BC 500 1817 BC

900 1500 1618 873

2. Write down any year for these centuries:

15th cent - s. XV 26th BC - s. XXVI a.C. 11th cent - s.XI

19th BC - s.XIX a.C. 20th cent - s.XX 1st BC - s.I a.C.

12th cent - s.XII 7th BC - s.VII a.C. 16th cent - s.XVI

3. Which of these years is nearer our time: 1132 BC or 1194 BC?

4. What century was it 2357 years ago?

5. How many years are there from 958 b.C. to 1311?

6. What's the 11th - XI century's first year and 10th - X century's last year?

7. Write down the first and the last year for these dates:

The second milenium b.C. 15th century

2nd century b.C. 18th century

From http://www.google.es/#sclient=psy&hl=ca&site=&source=hp&q=YOU+KNOW+MORE+THAN+YOU+THINK&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&fp=d7d0e5705c25d999

Elena del Pozo

PREHISTORY

Introduction to Prehistory

What’s the difference between Prehistory and History?

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What does Palaeolithic mean?

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Go to www.atapuerca.com and find out:

What is Atapuerca? Why is it important?

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Where is it? ____________________________________________________________

What can you find there?

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Write about the most important fact you think it is there.


I took this link from: http://www.historiasiglo20.org/MEC-BC/8.htm

Thank you!