TAYABAS WESTERN ACADEMY

Founded 1928
Candelaria, Quezon

Self-Learning Module

Name of Instructor Jessie V. Vasquez

Student:
Department College of Education Course/Year
Module No. 1 Units
Duration Week1 Days(Time)
Date Submitted Subject Code
Description Foundation of Education
Topic Historical Development

Guidelines/Directions:
1. This self- learning module will be uploaded on the created Facebook group every
Monday of the week until 8:30 in the evening. This can also be distributed through
your thumb drive. Printed learning materials will also be given to the students who
would like to have.
2. Links/videos mentioned in this module are all downloaded and can be found on your
thumb drive.
3. For those who have their Facebook account and reliable internet connection,
send/upload your accomplished activities on the Facebook group created by your
instructor.
4. For those who can’t submit their work on the Facebook group, do all the written
activities in 1 whole sheet of yellow paper while the video presentations will be
submitted using your thumb drive.
5. Submission will be every Saturday of the week or as agreed in our GC.
6. For inquiries or clarifications, message me at 09178553051.

Introduction
The origin of man can be traced both speculatively and scientifically from the time when other
humans dropped importance to its existence and survival. Anthropologists, archaeologists,
ethnologists, and historians alike gave no specific dates – only speculations and postulations
concerning the first appearance of man on earth.

Learning Targets
At the end of this week, the students are expected to:
1. Explain the historical development of man.
2. Recognized the different study of historians about historical development.

Engage
Activity 1: (What do you think?)

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 How will you interpret the image above?
Monkey into Modern Human. Evolution can't be stopped So, evolution can happen by
different mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift. As our environment is always
changing, natural selection is always happening. ... Humans are still evolving, and that is
unlikely to change in the future.

Explore
Activity 2:
Direction: Give the contributions of the following historians on the historical development of
man on the provided box below.

Herodutus IBN Khaldun

Herodotus is undoubtedly the “Father of Four hundred years before Auguste Comte's
History.” Born in Halicarnassus in Ionia in the 'invention' of sociology, Ibn Khaldun unveiled his
5th century B.C., he wrote “The Histories.” In 'science of culture'. His contribution to history is
this text are found his “inquiries” which later marked by the fact that he emphasized
became to modern scholars to mean “facts of sociological factors governing the apparent
history.” He is best known for recounting, very events. His contributions accorded him with the
objectively, the Greco-Persian wars of the late title 'the real father of sociology'.
5th century. He is revered for his honesty as he
explains in his writing that he is not sure of the
veracity of the supposed events and scenes that
occurred but is only writing down what he
gathers from his numerous travels through the
Greek world.
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 ChristianCharles
Jurgensen Darwin
Thomsen
Darwin was the grandfather of evolutionary
psychology , which attempts to determine which
psychological
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen,traits,
(born such
Dec. as
29,personality and
1788, Copenhagen,perception
Den. —died of attractiveness,
May 21, 1865,are evolved
Copenhagen), Danish archaeologistnatural
adaptations due to selection. He was also
who deserves
major credit for developingone ofthree-part
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system
of prehistory, namingdevelopment  researchand
the Stone, Bronze, andIron
psychology.
ages for the successive stages of man's
technological development in Europe.

Explain
Read the discussion on book on pages (4-20).

Activity 3:
For further information watch and understand the video about Historical
Development. You can watch it using this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiQaabX3_o

Extend/Elaborate
Activity 4:
Read and understand the following questions. Make sure to elaborate your answers on each
question.

1. Discuss the common findings and theories of anthropologists, ethnologists, and archaeologists
mentioned in this chapter concerning the evolutionary process of man.
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2. How do physical and cultural evolution of man affect the learning process of an individual?
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Evaluate
Activity 5:
Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. The word anthropology is derived from two different ________ terms.

a. Latin c. Arabic
b. Greek d. Hindi

2. A branch of anthropology that deals with the evolution of human anatomy and physiology.
a. cultural anthropology c. theological anthropology
b. physical anthropology d. cosmic anthropology

3. A branch of anthropologythat studies the origin and history of human societies and culture.
a.theological anthropology c. cultural anthropology
b.physical anthropology d. cosmic anthropology

4. He evidently testified the existence of different peoples, cultures, human organizations, and
military history of the region throughout the Middle East.
a. Christian Thomsen c. Ibn Khaldun
b. Herodotus d. Gregor Mendel

5. He viewed and considered religion as the strongest motivator to unite the members of society.
a. Gregor Mendel c. Ibn Khaldun
b. Charles Darwin d. Herodotus

6. He developed the tripartite eras – Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age – before the modern
era of technology.
a. Edouart Lartet c. Christian Thomsen
b. Erasmus Darwin d. Margaret Mean

7. This period refers to the origins and development of early human cultures from the time when
they were food gatherers and hunters.
a. Paleolithic c. Neolithic
b. Mesolithic d. Chalcolithic

8. He believed that during Ice Age both lower mammals and humans live simultaneously.
a. Gregor Mendel c. Charles Darwin
b. Edouart Lartet d. Herbert Spencer

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9. He considered that life is like a branching tree that implies free origin and destination rather
than a series of escalator postulation.
a. Herbert Spencer c. Gregor Mendel
b. Charles Darwin d. Edouart Lartet

10. He established two fundamental theories on heredity, namely, law of segregation and law of
independent assortment.
a. Lewis Morgan c. Herbert Spencer
b. Gregor Mendel d. Franz Boas

11. He coined the phrase survival of the fittest, which implies that only the most well adapted
individuals in a population would survive and reproduce.
a. Herbert Spencer c. Edward Tylor
b. Franz Boas d. Margaret Mead

12. He defined culture as a complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law,
custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
a. Franz Boas c. Margaret Mead
b. Edward Tylor d. Robert Fox

13. He developed the theory of Historical Particularism that emphasized the uniqueness of every
culture.
a. Claude Levi-Strauss c. Franz Boas
b. Margaret Mead d. Robert Fox

14. He found out that cultures are systems of communication and he constructed models based
on structural linguistics, information theory, and cybernetics to interpret them.
a. Margaret Mead c. Otley Beyer
b. Claude Levi-Strauss d. Wilhelm Solheim

15. He was the former Curator of the Anthropology Division of the National Museum in the
Philippines who steered several archaeological excavations like Tabon, Duyong, and Leta-Leta
in Palawan.
a. Robert Fox c. Franz Boas
b. Margaret Mead d. Claude Levi-Strauss

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