Tuesday, February 8th

Kennewick Man?



or Kennewick Man?



So, where did the Pre-Columbian peoples (Native Americans) come from? We looked at the Bering Land Bridge (Clovis First) theory. Then we watched a video about Kennewick Man and began a discussion about alternate theories of early human migration in North America.

 The Bering Land Bridge Theory

Monday, February 7th

First - got organized!

 

Next, we began Pre-Columbian History!

• Discussed Primary and Secondary sources...
• Learned what Pre-Columbian means...
• Found out what we will be exploring in this unit...
• Talked about what was here before there was a a country or colonies...
• Looked at some pics Pre-Columbian compared to today (Manhattan island circa 1500 and NY today!)
• Read some primary sources/stories - Coronado and Verrazano - what these first Europeans saw at the earliest observations of this country! Fun stuff!

Manhattan island 1500 and today!

Friday, February 4th

Big Geography Test!

Thursday, February 3rd

Geography Olympics - to prepare and review for the Geography test tomorrow, we did several activities.

Be sure to know:
1. All 50 states and capitals
2. All the physical geography of the U.S. that we learned
3. All the info from the video tour of the U.S.

Wednesday, February 2nd

SNOW DAY - Blizzard hits Milwaukee!
Ground hog goes running for cover!
Big Geography Test is now - Friday, Feb 4th!

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

January 28th, 2011

Big organization day - checked the Binder Page and got organized. Handed back all map quizzes! Handed out progress reports.

Concluded our video tour of the United States - region #5 (Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states)

Did Map Quiz #5!