Mr. Mansour’s Classroom Blog

Click through this to see the questions and answers to help review for our evolution test tomorrow. If you read this entry, you can earn 2 extra credit points by putting “Darwin’s finches” on the top of the test. Do not tell anyone about it or you will not get the points.

Click here to check out the future of human evolution website.

Here is an evolution timeline from Tyler.

Gentlemen,

Today you will be learning about human ancestors (based on fossil evidence) and see how upright walking mammals have evolved over millions of years. I’ve made a screencast on what you will need to do for today’s assignment, but it is taking a little while to upload. In the meantime, you can try and get started with it.

1. Log in to your google docs. You will see an assignment called HumanEvolutionChart that I’ve shared with you.

2. Use this website (click here) to access the web activity. Once you are there click on ‘Human Evolution Activity’

3. Go through the activity and complete the chart on your google docs.

4. Come back to this blog in 15 minutes to see a video that will help guide you through the google docs sheet. You don’t need to see the video to complete the sheet, but it will be helpful.

5. Once you complete the evolution activity, go to your Europe journal to check out your grade. Delete any comments I have left so I can print them out cleanly.

We had a very short week this week, so there wasn’t too much going on. The highlight of the week is probably the 7th grade science test on DNA and evolution.  We also looked at the ethical side of science and the moral choices scientists sometimes face.  Two weeks ago, we also had Chip Maxwell from the Nebraska Council for Ethical Research come to our class and talk about stem cell research and the ethical dilemmas surrounding it.My 8th grade Algebra students have been learning some basic programming skills using Microsoft Access and they’ve been building a small database of things they’d like to sell and crunching the numbers on them.  While we were in the lab, Miss Bolin’s students came to complete an online reading quiz.  The site is very cool.  I’ll get it from her and post it next week.