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Short activitivity to show how flexibile our language is and how d...

Chris Scaturo
Chris Scaturo over 10 years ago

Short activitivity to show how flexibile our language is and how difficult collective learning would have been for our non sapien ancestors.
 
Step 1: As a class, choose 200 random words. (I had 15 kids choose 14 words each)
 
Step 2: Answer the following questions using only the words listed:
 
1. How should we try to kill that mammoth?
2. Explain why you should marry me.
3. Give directions for a simple task.
4. Come up with a plan to improve our cave.
5. Describe a physical landscape.
6. Come up with your own question!

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  • Chris Scaturo
    Chris Scaturo over 9 years ago
    Would anyone like to be Neanderthal Pen Pals? We are doing this now and maybe we could have the kids email each other using only the word's from our own language. It might show how language evolves. You would start only being able to use "your words" but could add the words from the other groups response to your list.
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    Chris Scaturo over 9 years ago
    Would anyone like to be Neanderthal Pen Pals? We are doing this now and maybe we could have the kids email each other using only the word's from our own language. It might show how language evolves. You would start only being able to use "your words" but could add the words from the other groups response to your list.
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