Our Human Story 2019

Book

The work will be based on the lecture of "Our Human Story", Louise Humphrey & Chris Stringer, National History Museum, ISBN 978-0-565-09391-4.

Related websites:

• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/human-evolution.html

Format

• for each chapter, collaborative work between three groups of students
• generation of a series of questions that will be asked during the webinar with the authors

Method

Work by groups of two in class and at home… Each group will work on a particular chapter
At the same time, a group from the other bilingual class will work on the same wiki page (chapter) as you… This will implicate that you'll have to collaborate in English with this group for the production of the written document. = interclass approach.
Goal? For each group, the main goal will be to highlight and describe the main points of the chapter you are studying.
How? Inquiry Based Learning: Inquiry implies involvement that leads to understanding. Furthermore, involvement in learning implies possessing skills and attitudes that permit you to seek resolutions to questions and issues while you construct new knowledge. (from http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html). You'll have to read the chapter, and raise questions and then answer to them in order to build a final written document that will be published. The role of the written part is for you to put together the main ideas of each chapter in a collaborative manner. These summaries will help you to read in a second step the entire book in an easier manner and maybe to have a better understanding of some tricky points.
Then each group will create a poster that will synthesize the main "take home messages" of the studied chapter.

Evaluation

The semester exam in June will be an oral exam. You'll pick up a question on the book and in relation with my course and you'll have 15 minutes of preparation and then 15 minutes of presentation and discussion.

As you can see, there is a multi-level procedure:

1. reading of the entire book
2. chapter analysis in class
3. question generation
4. webinar conference with the authors
5. semester oral exam
   

Chapters

1. OHS_2019_Chap1 - Our closest relatives

2. OHS_2019_Chap2 - The first three million years

3. OHS_2019_Chap3 - Australopithecus

4. OHS_2019_Chap4 - Paranthropus

5. OHS_2019_Chap5 - The origins of humans (genus Homo)

6. OHS_2019_Chap6 - Homo sapiens

References

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