6. Discussion Questions – 3A
• 1. What is the main idea of the article?
• 2. Why do you think that access to clean water is so
disproportionate(unequal) around the world?
• 3. What are the obstacles/struggles to obtaining clean water that
are mentioned in the article?
• 4. What are the three ways that the Hamar, the Samburu and the
Chileans collect water?
• 5. What are the potential sources of water that exist around the
world? Where does our water come from in State College?
• 6. As seen in the examples in the article, what are three ways that
nature can help lead people to water?
7. Unit 5 – Human Journey – pg. 73
Warm up
• What do you think this
chapter will be about?
• What does this picture
represent?
• Why do you think this
picture was chosen for
this chapter?
8. Pre reading –pg. 73
• Discuss the warm-up questions with your
partner.
• *remote = far from towns or other places
where people live (isolated)
9. The DNA Trail –pg. 74
• Complete
Part A on
pg. 74 in
pairs.
• Share
answers as
a whole
class.
11. Post-Video Pair Discussion
A. Share what you understood from the
video with your partner.
B. What do you think about the study
that National Geographic is conducting?
C. What questions do you have about
what you saw?
12. Pre-Reading Vocabulary Activity
In pairs, say one sentence (each partner)
about each slide. Use the vocabulary word in
each sentence.
Examples:
Portable
1. This house is portable because it can be moved from one place to
another.
2. It is nice to have a portable house if you are planning to move around a
lot.
3. Some people think that portable houses are not wise purchases
because they may not be as stable as permanent houses.
14. It ends about 200,000 years later with their six and a half
billion descendants spread across the earth, living in peace
or at war, their faces lit by campfires and computer
screens.
15. In between is an exciting tale of survival, movement,
isolation, and conquest, most of it occurring before
recorded history.
16. For decades the only proof was found in a small number of
scattered bones and artifacts our ancestors left behind on
their journeys.
17. For decades the only proof was found in a small number of
scattered bones and artifacts our ancestors left behind on
their journeys.
18. In the past 20 years, however, increasingly refined DNA
technologies have allowed scientists to find a record of
ancient human migrations in the DNA of loving people.
19. But while the bulk of our DNA is the same, what’s left is
responsible for our individual differences—in eye color or
disease risk, for example.
20. Although archeological evidence of this 13,000-kilometer
(8,000-mile) migration from Africa to Australia has almost
completely vanished, genetic traces of the group that made
the trip do exist.
21. Modern discoveries of 45,000-year-old bodies in Australia,
buried at a site called Lake Mungo, provide some physical
evidence for the theories as well.
22. Once across, they followed the immense herds of animals
into the mainland and spread to the tip of South America
in as little as a thousand years.
23. Once across, they followed the immense herds of animals
into the mainland and spread to the tip of South America
in as little as a thousand years.
24. 5A Text – Reading, Note-taking, and
Sharing
• Step 1
• Blues read lines 1-74 (take notes and prepare to summarize)
• Greens read lines 75-end (take notes and prepare to summarize)
• 2) Summarizing and listening
Blues summarize your reading and greens listen and check
information that is given (column 1)
Greens summarize your reading and blues listen and check
information that is given (column 1)
• 3) Answering the questions (column 2)
– Work together to answer the questions on the handouts (column 2)
– I will collect this handout and grade your answers in column 2
25. HW
• Friday = newspaper quiz (1-3 of the
discussion questions) (no notes)
• Friday = blue/green paper (RE 5A)
• Complete VP 11 + check answers =
Monday (3A) or Tuesday (3B)
• Print two copies of VP 11 group work
assignments = Monday (3A) or Tuesday
(3B)
