Homework for Third Block AND Seventh Block Biology 9/30 and 10/1

1.  Go to the class website

https://sites.google.com/a/d214.org/rmhs-honors-biology/home

If you haven't done so already, BOOKMARK THIS PAGE!!!

2.  Click on "Unit Resources."  Click on, "Unit 1:  Evolution."

3.  Scroll down until you find "Importance Of Being A Child Reading."  

4.  Read this document and use it, along with the data table for our class (link to this is also in your email), to answer the following questions:

Analysis Questions:  

1. Identify those animals that have a long childhood on the class data table.  Write pieces of data that support that idea in your journal. Record any other observations that you made while analyzing the class data table.  

2. Read “The Importance of Being Children” (p. 98 – 102) and use this information to answer the following questions:

A.How does a long childhood help humans develop a complex culture?

B.How does our language ability help us develop complex culture?

C.How does our ability to learn help us develop complex culture?

D.Give two examples of other animals that exhibit a certain capacity for learning, language and culture.

3.  Is it possible to infer whether the Iceman would have had a long childhood?  Use EVIDENCE to support your answer.  

Summary Questions (To be done below your DO NOW for LONG CHILDHOOD lesson)

Based on what you have learned today:

1.How different are humans and other animals with respect to early development? 

2.How alike are humans with other animals with respect to early development?

3.What might happen with humans if we had a shorter childhood?  Explain your answer.  

For my Seventh Block Honors Biology Class: 

Below is the link to a google doc that I created to compile our data for our animals' childhoods.  As you gather data on your animal, put the data into this google doc.  

https://docs.google.com/a/d214.org/document/d/1HK7mfLoYrOFqYILawku8nBjGpT0b1EVjzPR3MqqHnqg/edit

You should have also received a link to this document via email.  

For my Third Block Honors Biology Class:  

Below is the link to a google doc that I created to compile our data for our animals' childhoods.  As you gather data on your animal, put the data into this google doc.  

https://docs.google.com/a/d214.org/document/d/1ZRTah-4LU5Vs0oHdXTb_fAs4DBtTXnACGCAhfyDRvTQ/edit?usp=sharing

You should have also received a link to this document via email.  

Evidence vs. Inference Questions for Iceman Activity

1.Consider the artifacts you chose in your table, and answer 2 of the following questions:

A.What might the bow and the finished and unfinished arrows and arrowheads indicate about his way of life?

B.What might the copper-bladed axe with the wooden handle indicate about his culture?

C.What can you tell from the bits of wheat and wheat pollen present? 

D.What might the different markings on his body indicate?

2.Look back at your table of artifacts.  Label EVIDENCE and INFERENCES in your table. 

3.How can evidence AND inferences play a role in science?

Analysis Questions for IceMan Activity

1.What particular physical features of the Iceman would you compare with modern humans if you were looking for evidence of biological adaptations?

2.What artifacts from the Iceman would you compare with artifacts from modern humans as evidence of cultural adaptations? 

3.Do you think there have been greater changes in humans physically or culturally in the last 5,000 years?  Explain your answer. 

Summary Questions (To be completed below your Do Now)

Based on what you have learned today:

1.Distinguish between biological adaptations (inherited traits) and cultural adaptations (acquired traits). 

2.Distinguish between evidence and inference. 

3.After this lesson, what are the unique CULTURAL ADAPTATIONS of humans?  

Homework for Brains On Board Lesson

Greetings!

For those of you who need to finish the questions for the Brains Activity, I have posted the questions below.  

Brains Comparison Activity:  Analysis Questions

1.Observe the sheep brain.  Which brain of those that you have observed is most like the sheep brain?  (6a)

2.Why do you think some brains are similar?  (6b)

3.Consider the cerebellum of each animal.  Which animals would you expect to have well-developed cerebellums and why?  (6e)

4.Consider other observations you made about the brains.  What inferences might you make about an animal that has a brain with very large optic lobes or olfactory lobes?  (6f)

5.Look at your observations of the cerebrum of each animal.  Do you observe anything about the human cerebrum that makes it distinctive from the others?  If so, what? (6c)

6.Based on what you know about the cerebrum’s function, how does human’s cerebrum make humans distinctive?  (6d)

Summary Questions

1.After this lesson, what is another PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC that makes

humans unique? 

2.How does the structure of the human brain contribute to humans’ unique

characteristics?  Explain using your new knowledge of the brain.

Welcome to Honors Biology!