Week 7 @ TMSE – Race by Rochelle Williamson
This week our discussion was on “RACE”, which is a very complicated subject. Because of the complexities of the subject, students gained a wealth of information. The students learned that there are...
View ArticleWeek 8 @ TMSE – Body Modification by Lisa Meister
In our final day of partnership, we explored the diverse world of body modification. I defined body modification as any deliberate act to change one’s physical appearance. When we looked at some...
View ArticleCulture at TMSE – Week 1! By Madeline Anscombe
In our first class at TMSE, we met our twenty new anthropologists and divided into clans. Over the course of the year, we will be using Indonesia as a model for our lessons. In order to explain the...
View ArticleEthnography at TMSE – Week 2 by Mary Gibler
For our second week at TMSE, we focused on ethnography. After a recap of the previous week’s focus on culture and the four subfields of anthropology, we explained that ethnography is a tool that...
View ArticleArchaeology, week 3! By LaBethany Bradford
For our third week at TMSE, we focused on Archaeology. But, before I started to teach them about archaeology I reviewed “CLAP.” CLAP stands for Cultural, Linguistic, Archaeology, and Physical. While...
View ArticleBody Modification at TMSE by LaBethany Bradford
So this week at TMSE we learned about body modification! I was really excited to teach this class given that a lot of people think body modification is weird. But, it isn’t! I had to remind the...
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This past week, our lesson at TSME focused on Primates. We taught the students that monkeys, apes, and humans are all primates, surprising the class with a picture of them that we had taken the...
View ArticleEvolution at TMSE – Adapting Animals by Madeline Anscombe
Today at TMSE we taught the students all about the theory of evolution and let them see how this theory transcends into their own lives. Teaching evolution was an important topic to teach our third...
View ArticleRace at TMSE – What is race anyway? – A Team Teaching Effort.
Today at TMSE we discussed race and human variation. The lecture covered the intricacies of how we perceive race in America by addressing what anthropologists view it as. It is important to know that...
View ArticleFinal Day at Arcadia Spring 2017 – Food! A Team Teaching Effort
So for our last day at TMSE we talked about food and how it is a thing that gathers everyone together in all cultures. But, first we started off with a short quiz about everything we covered in the...
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