Becoming Human Activity
Summaries of News Articles: Complete on a separate sheet and attach to your
Learning Center Activities
1. Write a 2 sentence summary and 1 sentence opinion statement regarding “First
Fossil Chimpanzee”
2. Write a 2 sentence summary and 1 sentence opinion statement regarding
“Toothless Homo Erectus”
3. Write a 5 sentence summary and 1 sentence opinion statement regarding “New
Species of Hominin”
 Click on Learning Center on the left
***The following activities may be done in ANY order but ALL activities MUST be
completed***
1. Calculating Cousins
a. Print CORRECT answers and put your and your partner’s name on it.
2. Chromosome Connections: Answer the following questions.
a. How many chromosomes are different between EACH of our four closest
ancestors?
b. Does this DNA evidence affect your opinion of evolution? Why or why
not?
3. Building Bodies: Answer the following questions.
a. Do you agree we have the same skeleton as chimps? Why or why not?
b. What is different about our upper and lower legs compared to a chimp’s?
c. What is different about our upper and lower arms compared to a chimp’s?
d. What is different about our torso compared to a chimp’s?
e. What is different about our pelvis compared to a chimp’s?
f. What is different about our hands compared to a chimp’s?
g. What is different about our feet compared to a chimp’s?