Personally, I am a huge fan of Cosmos, hands on activities like chemical element spectrum projects and stargazing nights collabing with the local university with students, using replica skulls for the early human lessons, etc!
What are your go-to resources for teaching BHP outside of standard use resources, and how did you adapt them to fit your classroom needs?
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Brad Vonck I too use replicas of skulls to teach human evolution. One of the activities my students enjoyed the most was walking on the Laetoli footprints. This is an adaptation of the activity designed by Dr. Larry Flammer that I modified due to time constraints. Working in groups, students decipher the bipedal gait pattern of the footprints and pose hypotheses as they walk on a segment of the trackway reproduced in real scale-size.
For those who are interested here is the activity, this is a copy of the trackway and these are different docs for the activity: doc #1, doc #2, doc #3, doc #4, doc #5
I added some pictures to visualize the activity.
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Brad Vonck I too use replicas of skulls to teach human evolution. One of the activities my students enjoyed the most was walking on the Laetoli footprints. This is an adaptation of the activity designed by Dr. Larry Flammer that I modified due to time constraints. Working in groups, students decipher the bipedal gait pattern of the footprints and pose hypotheses as they walk on a segment of the trackway reproduced in real scale-size.
For those who are interested here is the activity, this is a copy of the trackway and these are different docs for the activity: doc #1, doc #2, doc #3, doc #4, doc #5
I added some pictures to visualize the activity.
