Early Humans

You will be creating 2 blog posts about our Early Humans unit. This Google Doc will help you organize your thoughts. Once you are finished, you can copy and paste what you’ve written here on to your actual blog! Use your notes from last class period to help you demonstrate your learning.

Post 1 - Early Humans

In this post, you will write about the technological advancements of each hominid group. Use the sentence starters below, if you like, to help you create your post.

Out of all of our early human ancestors, during this unit we learned about Australopithecus Afarensis, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis, and Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Each hominid was more advanced than the ones which came before it. To begin with, Australopithecus Afarensis was the first hominid to be able to... They figured out how to eat I guess that's cool, but anyway they couldn't do Much else than apes Which allowed them to... they where scavengers, and so that means free food!

After that, Homo Habilis came along. Homo Habilis was more advanced than Australopithecus Afarensis, and was able to... Use bones as tools, which allowed them to… using bones as tools, makes things easier like, digging, cutting there food and so on.

Next came Homo Erectus. In addition to what Homo Habilis could do, Homo Erectus was able to use fire, they could walk on two feet, use fire which allowed them to… cooking food allowed them to live longer because if you eat food raw you could get a disease, walking is better than running on four legs. Also fire provides light.

After Homo Erectus came Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis. They... Used a bow and arrow and a knife, and use fire which allowed them to… hunt easier than just using sticks, and bones.

Finally, along came Homo Sapiens Sapiens, or “Early Modern Man.” These advanced hominids were able to... Grow up to six feet, they made art. which allowed them to… the bigger the better because you can reach farther, and make trails of art so we could know about them millions of years later.

Post 2 - GarageBand

In this post, you will write about how to use the iPad app GarageBand. Pretend you are explaining the program to someone who was interested but had never used it before. You will have to be detailed! Use the sentence starters below, if you like, to help you create your post.

GarageBand is a cool app available on the iPad to make audio (mp3) files, and we used it to create our radio show about Homo Sapiens Sapiens

Garageband is simple to use. To begin, you open the app by tapping the icon on your homescreen. Once it opens you will be able to create a new “song,” which is what the projects are called on Garageband. Also you can use the metronome, ( the thing that goes tick tick, to the beat.) Also there are lots of different instruments like drums, guitar, and so on. There's also loops, loops are short little tunes that you use in your song.