Afternoon, all!
After researching and discussing migration patterns, I closed the class having students calculate some migration times.
Hypothetical: "If your community moved an average of just ten miles a year, consider how many years it would take to travel from Africa through Russia and Siberia, to Alaska and then down the Americas to Tierra del Fuego?"
Then, "imagine the new knowledge you would need to acquire as you traveled from Africa (with its warm climates and abundant vegetation and animal life), to Siberia (with cold climates, scarce vegetation but lots of large animals such as mammoth), to North America (with its huge forests and unfamiliar animals and plants), through the tropical lands of Central America and then through the Andes to Tierra del Fuego?"
Always searching for the connection and to help students apply their new learning to a novel situation!
