Instructor: Aimee LaBree
Subject Area: Social Studies
Have you ever wondered what the oldest evidence of human existence is? How did the world’s earliest people on each continent live? In this class you will have the opportunity to explore the evidence and draw your own conclusions about what life was like many thousands of years ago. We will be creating artifacts from the peoples we study and looking at the various theories of what life was like using all of the evidence we can gather, including written and oral stories.
Goals:
Students will analyze the biological, cultural, geographic and environmental processes that gave rise to the earliest human communities. They will be able to locate various civilizations of the earliest eras of time and place, and describe and compare these cultures. They will formulate their own theories about early human existence.
Grading Criteria:
This course will be graded on the following scale and is based on attendance, class participation, and class work:
A 100-80%
B 79-70%
C 69-60%
D 59-50%
N 49-%
Minnesota Curriculum Standards addressed in this course are:
III. World History
A. Beginnings of Human Society and Early Civilizations to 1000 BC: process of emergence, Asia, Africa, America;
o Students will analyze biological, cultural, geographic, and environmental processes
o Students will describe innovations that gave rise to developed agriculture
o Students will analyze the spread of agricultural societies and population movements, and locate various civilizations of the era.
