From January-May, we’ll be concentrating on prehistory for our science and history studies. You’ll find the tentative booklist for our prehistory study here.
This is a list of topics we plan to cover in our prehistory study. Some of these we’ve already done a lot of reading on and others will be new areas of exploration for us. We’ll likely spend more time on some and less on others and we may extend our study through the summer, but this is our starting point. The last topics cover the entire time period, so we will talk about them throughout the semester but I’d like to spend some time focusing on how we know what we do about the prehistorical world.
formation of the universe
formation of the earth and the earliest life forms
more complex forms of life develop in the ocean
first fish and sharks
fish move onto the land (early amphibians)
first reptiles
dinosaurs
reptiles of the sea
flying reptiles/first birds
first mammals
early humans
discovery of fire and farming
Darwin and evolution
archaeologists (what they do in the field, how they make discoveries)
fossils (different types and what we can learn from them)
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