WebQuest_Before+Civilization+Process

= Before Civilization: a WebQuest on Early Humans = =|| Introduction|| Task|| Process|| Evaluation|| Conclusion|| Teacher Page||= 

[[image:stone-age_tools.jpg align="right"]]Process
Follow the directions for each of the 5 activities below. After you finish an activity, please go to the class blog and respond to the activity. Each activity has its own post, most of them just require you to describe the activity and how you felt about it. Good luck. [|Before Civilization WebQuest Class Blog] click this link to visit the class blog. Once there, find your team's page and answer the questions assigned to you. Remember to visit the blog after each activity.

**Activity 1: Prehistory, Technology, and Archaeology **
Each group member has a specialty, for this activity you are to read up on your specialty. Follow the link next to your specialty and read the entry from the mr.dowling.com website. Once you are done with your reading go the class blog page and answer your question and respond to at least one other group members post. Member #1 – Prehistory: [] & [] Member #2 – Technology: [] Member #3 – Fire: [] Member #4 – Theories: [] Member #5 – Archaeology: []
 * Team Member # - speciality: Link**

**Activity 2: Complete the Dig and Deduce- Archaeology [[image:5107HO1.jpg align="left"]] **
Do you ever wonder how scientists know so much about people from the past. In more modern times people have left behind written or recorded accounts of what happens. But how do we know anything about people who lived before writing was invented? Special scientists called archaeologists and anthropologists are experts at digging up artifacts that give important clues about how early people lived. This activity will help give you a sense of how Archaeologists work to find artifacts, and interpret what they find.

For this activity follow this link to the PBS website and complete the activity on how archaeologists study Neanderthals (a species of primates that appeared around the same time as humans, but went extinct). This activity uses flash player, which allows for interactivity on the part of users.

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Once you are done with the activity visit the class project blog and write at least two posts, one answering the questions yourself, and one response to someone else’s post.

**Activity 3: Video – Making a Stone Age Weapon **
Watch the video below on how stone tools were made by early humans. This demonstration is how archaeologists believe early humans made their tools and weapons.

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Once you are done with the activity visit the class project blog and write at least two posts, one answering the questions yourself, and one response to someone else’s post.


Follow the link to an interactive presentation on various stone tools used by early humans. See if you can guess what each tool is used for. Be sure to read the explanations of each tool and how it was used.


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Once you are done with the activity visit the class project blog and write at least two posts, one answering the questions yourself, and one response to someone else’s post.

**Activity 5: Video – Out of Africa [[image:hunters.jpg align="left"]] **
Click on the link below to view a video on the origin of humans, and how scientists are using DNA to solve some of the mysteries of the earliest humans.

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Once you are done with the activity visit the class project blog and write at least two posts, one answering the questions yourself, and one response to someone else’s post.

[|Before Civilization WebQuest Class Blog] (click here to visit the class blog. Once there, find your team's page and answer the questions assigned to you)
 * Now Blog! **


 * When your group has completed all of its posts you are to print out a copy of your blog posts and hand it in to Mr. Sicilia. Be sure to follow the directions of the blog carefully so that all members of your team get credit.**