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Description Stones and Bones meets the needs of all ability students. The format is interdisciplinary in design and emphasizes active student participation through laboratory explorations. Modern (general) or life science and biology instructional units supplement, enrich, and extend current science curricula. Three instructional pathways emphasize the study of humankind:

• Modern (General) Science Pathway: Designed to motivate noncollege-oriented students. Each of the 20 laboratory explorations offers the general science student hands-on opportunities to investigate topics such as geologic time, measuring radioactivity, mapping, behavior of primates, and replica casts of fossil hominids. During this unit, students will also have an opportunity to simulate archaeological excavation.

• Biology Pathway: An overview of physical anthropology. The unit provides students with hands-on, in-depth experiences as a supplement to physical anthropology in biology textbooks. A series of 11 investigative explorations focuses on topics including primate behavior and distribution, interpreting archeological records, primate locomotion and morphology, and replica casts of fossil hominids. This approach reinforces and extends many basic concepts taught in the study of biology.

• Semester Course Pathway: This pathway in physical anthropology provides students the opportunity to study early origins of humankind in depth. Laboratory investigations pursue such topics as: phylogeny through time, continental drift, locomotion and behavior of primates, classification and morphology, as well as 14 fossil replica casts of Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Neanderthal, and Cro-Magnon.

Instructional materials for all three pathways are highly self-directive, requiring minimal teacher training. In addition to printed materials, cast replicas of fossil hominid casts and instructional materials used in the explorations have been validated to be scientifically accurate by the L.S.B. Leaky Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, and by world-recognized anthropoligists from various major universities.

Cost for implementing program: Modern Science Unit ($570.50); Biology Unit $1,065.50; Semester Course ($1,530.50). Training costs consist of: travel expenses; $200 per day honorarium; no charge for training workshop materials.

Contact

Milton S. Anisman, Director, Los Angeles Unified School District, Physical Anthropology Center, 6625 Balboa Boulevard, Van Nuys, CA 91406. (818) 997-2389 or (310) 472-6175, FAX (818) 774-9462.

Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Title IV-C.
JDRP No. 82-29 (5/26/82)
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