IT´S SUMMER TIME AGAIN!!

Truly hope you all guys have a wonderful vacation time. Thanks for trying hard with me!

Remember: ¨Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you¨.

                                                                                                                                               - Aldous Huxley 

JAIR BRAVO 

SOCIAL STUDIES                                                                                           

SOCIAL STUDIES 3 PERIOD MUSLIMS VIDEO-SLIDE LINKS

http://www.slideshare.net/speed2kx/contributions-of-islam-to-civilization-presentation

http://www.slideshare.net/sabeel/islams-contributions-to-world-civilization-2571656

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu3NsoKjUOU

SOCIAL STUDIES III PERIOD OVERALL RUBRIC

SOCIAL STUDIES II PERIOD FINAL EVALUATION VIDEO-SLIDE LINK

THE ANCIENT MAYAS:
http://mayas.mrdonn.org/
 http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/
http://www.mayankids.com/mkintro.htm
http://www.jaguarstones.com/LinksMaya.html
http://mayaruins.com/

THE ANCIENT AZTECS:
http://aztecs.mrdonn.org//
http://aztec.com/index.html
http://www.broadwindsor.dorset.sch.uk/aztec_websites.htm
http://www.42explore2.com/aztec.htm

THE ANCIENT INCAS:
http://incas.mrdonn.org/
http://www.cumbavac.org/Aztecs_Incas_Maya.htm
http://www.42explore2.com/inca.htm
http://incas.mrdonn.org/

Good luck!!!

SOCIAL STUDIES II PERIOD OVERALL RUBRIC

SOCIAL STUDIES: Ötzi the Iceman

Archaeologists and Detectives have very similar jobs: they have to reconstruct a story by pieceing together the evidences they find, whether at a crime scene or at an excavation site. If a detective wants to find out who committed a crime, an archaeologist wants to know who is responsible for an artifact, and what it means. But sometimes, archaeologists go beyond the task of identifying the remains of a culture, and get involved in investigations conducive to solve crimes of the past.

That is the case of the archaeologists who worked in the case of Ötzi the Iceman, a mummified ancient traveler found in the Alps in 1991, considered to have lived around 3500 years ago, and whose death was for a long time a mystery.

Read more about the Iceman at:

The Museum :
http://www.iceman.it/en

The Story of a Crime:
http://viewzone2.com/oetzix.html

SOCIAL STUDIES: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOURCE: The Builders of the Pyramids

Who Built the Pyramids?

Contrary to some popular depictions, the pyramid builders were not slaves or foreigners. Excavated skeletons show that they were Egyptians who lived in villages developed and overseen by the pharaoh's supervisors.

The builders' villages boasted bakers, butchers, brewers, granaries, houses, cemeteries, and probably even some sorts of health-care facilities—there is evidence of laborers surviving crushed or amputated limbs. Bakeries excavated near the Great Pyramids could have produced thousands of loaves of bread every week.

Some of the builders were permanent employees of the pharaoh. Others were conscripted for a limited time from local villages. Some may have been women: Although no depictions of women builders have been found, some female skeletons show wear that suggests they labored with heavy stone for long periods of time.

Graffiti indicates that at least some of these workers took pride in their work, calling their teams "Friends of Khufu," "Drunkards of Menkaure," and so on—names indicating allegiances to pharaohs.

An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 workers built the Pyramids at Giza over 80 years. Much of the work probably happened while the River Nile was flooded.

Huge limestone blocks could be floated from quarries right to the base of the Pyramids. The stones would likely then be polished by hand and pushed up ramps to their intended positions.

It took more than manual labor, though. Architects achieved an accurate pyramid shape by running ropes from the outer corners up to the planned summit, to make sure the stones were positioned correctly. And priests-astronomers helped choose the pyramids' sites and orientations, so that they would be on the appropriate axis in relation to sacred constellations.

From stone pusher to priest, every worker would likely have recognized his or her role in continuing the life-and-death cycle of the pharaohs, and thereby in perpetuating the glory of Egypt.

Source:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/pyramids.html

Checked on November 8th 2010.

SOCIAL STUDIES: EGYPT: Who built the Egyptian Pyramids?

(Make a research of  internet resources and Answer the following questions in your notebook.)

For each question you must look in three different internet sources (for example, Wikipedia and other 2 sites). You must list the addresses you took the information from.

WHO BUILT THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS?

During the last three decades, some thinkers have been claiming that the Egyptian Pyramids is such a great work of architecture and engineering that the Egyptians themselves wouldn't have been able to construct them. These people go in so far to say that only with the help of some intelligent life from out of Earth, that is, some aliens visiting our planet, the Egyptians would have been able to raise those magnificent constructions.

Questions

Prior to the research, answer:
1. Why do you think some people may believe that extraterrestrial, intelligent beings built the pyramids?
2. What do you know about the pyramids?
3. How do you think the pyramids were built?
4. How many people and how long do you think it would take to build a pyramid of the size of the school's coliseum?

visit the following sites:
Read about the different hypotheses on how the pyramids were built.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/pyramids.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/builders.html
http://www.trueufo.com/2009/11/29/ancient-aliens-influenced-the-pyramids/
http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/Who%20built%20the%20pyramids.htm


Questions:
Answer after reading:

1. What are the reasons why some people think the pyramids are a creation some sort of aliens?
2. Who really built the pyramids of Egypt?
3. Why archaeologists have changed their idea that slaves were the builders? What is their idea now?
4. What was the purpose of the pyramids?
5. How the importance of the stars for the Egyptian is showed in the pyramids?

After having answered the previous questions check out the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1fAfziMvok&p=7A26E44FCA430DB7&feature=BF&index=13

Visit the following link where you will be able to see the main Egyptian pyramids:
http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/1982/Egypt//Cairo/Giza_Pyramids


REMEMBER THAT YOUR ANSWERS MUST REMAIN IN YOUR NOTEBOOKS.

ACCUMULATIVE EXAMS SCHEDULE

This is the information that was sent last week:


Thursday December 3th: Mathematics

Friday December 4th: English

Monday December 7th: Physics and chemistry

Wednesday December 9th: Spanish

Thursday December 10th: Biology

Friday December 11th: Social Studies


Remember that these exams represent 30 % of your final grade for this period.

Net Homework Asteroids and Comets

SCIENCE NET HOMEWORK
Read the information about asteroids and comets from the National Geographic web site. You may have an easy access through the link provided in the main page of this blog.
Then answer the questions below and e-mail them to the following gmail address:
arboleda2015@gmail.com
The deadline to send you homework is September, Sunday 21 at 9:00 p.m.
ASTEROIDS AND COMETS
Answer these questions with the information found in main page.

Why people have always been afraid of asteroids and comets?
How were asteroids and comets created?
Where are most asteroids located in the Solar System?
What are the two main differences between comets and asteroids?
What are the two hypotheses about the creation of the asteroids belt?
Why do comets glow?

Age Comets Article
Answer these questions with the information found in age comets article. You just have to click on it.

Which ones have been the most remarkable and visible comets in the last 30 years?
Scientists who study comets have found new information related to the theory of the origin of life on Earth. What is main idea of that information?
What usually happens to most asteroids when they get into the Earth’s atmosphere?
What scientists think it may have happened 65 millions years ago on Earth?