Website
BBC

Bbc News: Early Humans Followed the Coast

For Students 9th - 10th
The theory of coastal migration of early Americans down the coast of California has been gaining much consideration. Read about some of the evidence supporting this theory.
Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Two migration theories are on the table for consideration. Weigh the evidence of each one in this article by Donald Johanson of Lucy fame.
Lesson Plan
The Henry Ford

Early 20th Century Migration: Transportation: Past, Present and Future [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A teacher's guide and unit plan that explores the migration of people from within and to the United States in the early 20th century up to the present day, many of them to work in the automobile factories in the northern US. Additional...
Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Human Migration Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this activity to figure out where the first humans lived. This activity requires students to read clues and use their understanding of the clues to create a map to give them a visual representation of early humans movements.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: How Early Humans Survived the Ice Age

For Students 9th - 10th
The most recent ice age peaked between 24,000 and 21,000 years ago, when vast ice sheets covered North America and northern Europe, and mountain ranges like Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro and South America's Andes were encased in glaciers. At...
Handout
Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Early Modern Homo Sapiens

For Students 9th - 10th
An easy-to-understand article traces the origins of modern humans through the use of a simple graph. Various models of migration are also discussed.
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Freedom, Making of African American Identity: V. 2, 1865 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
Sixteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and audio material-that explore African American perceptions of freedom from Emancipation to the early-twentieth century.
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Other

Center for the Study of the First Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
This institute attempts to provide answers to the questions: when did the first people enter the Americas, who were the first immigrants, where did they come from, and how did they get here?
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: The Promised Land?

For Students 9th - 10th
A short story and a painting illustrating African American perceptions of Northern cities. Rudolph Fisher's short story "The City of Refuge" and William H. Johnson's painting Moon over Harlem offer insight into life within the black...
Handout
Other

Mitochondrial Dna Adaptations in Human Population (2004)

For Students 9th - 10th
Hawks's research involves the use of mtDNA studies to hypothesize the ability to survive in certain climatic zones.
Handout
Other

Cabrillo College: The Men From Spirit Cave and Wizard's Beach

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the discoveries of the Spirit Lake Man and Wizard's Beach Man.
Handout
Other

Encyclopedia Virginia: Clovis and Pre Clovis Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
The evidence found at excavations at Cactus Hill in Virginia are pushing back the dates of the appearance of humans in the Western Hemisphere. Read about what has been found and the theories of how man reached the east coast of America...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Tanzania: Ngorongoro Conservation Area

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing...