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Unit 2: Prehistory and Early Humans Reflection

1. Describe how you prepared/studied for the unit test.

For this units test I prepared in many different ways and certainly a lot more than last time. On the night before the test I was looking over my notes a lot and I am glad I put more effort into my notes than last time. I had a lot more notes in my notebook this time than last time and I think it helped me very much and also made the test much easier. I was mostly looking over the graphic organizer that showed which early human was which and the "cheat sheet". 

A) Do you think your studying strategies were effective? Why/Not?

I think that my studying was effective and it did feel much easier to do the test than last time when I barely studied at all. It made me much less stressed and made me feel more confident that I could to much more in much less time. I think I wrote a good amount of writing for the essay question and way more than last time. 

B) How will you prepare next time?

I think that next time I will hopefully study a little bit more and use more sources than a couple sheets of paper. Next time I think I should also study in advance much more because It think I would memorize it better if I studied a week before the test as oppose to cramming it all in the night before the test or the night before that.

2. What was the most surprising thing you learned about int his unit?

I think that the most surprising thing I learned about in this unit was that there are so many different types of early humans that I didn't know about before. The only ones I'd heard of are Homo-Sapiens and Neanderthals. It was interesting for me to learn how all the early humans were different and how they evolved over such a long time. I always thought that all early humans looked exactly the same and didn't differ much in appearance.

3. If we had more time to spend on Prehistory + Early Humans- what would you want to learn more about?

It think that what I would want to learn about is more specifics about early humans, not just Early humans in general. I think that is the only thing that I would want to learn more about.

The Mystery of the Human Hobbit

The Hobbits were a group of early humans evolved that had a condition called "island dwarfing". This mad the people on the island extremely short due to smaller bones. The Hobbits lived for 38,000 to around 16,000 years ago. They had large brains despite their small bones. The hobbits only lived for a relatively short period of time and didn't evolve into a major species although they evolved from early humans. The early humans became so small because of limited resources and if they needed too much food they they wouldn't survive. In Indonesian folklore there are stories of small people which has led archeologists to consider if we crossed paths with the hobbits before and maybe they were too small to survive off the islands or maybe they even evolved. The hobbits evolved over a long period of time and even though they adapted to the island the resources were too limited and eventually led to the extinction of the human hobbit.