BBC
Bbc: 'Lucy's Baby' Found in Ethiopia
In September 2006, the bones of a female Australopithecus Afarensis were unearthed. This extremely rare juvenile specimen allowed scientists a new insight into characteristics of an important human ancestor.
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Milwaukee Public Television: The Making of Milwaukee: Ethnic Stories
Many if the early settlers in Milwaukee were of German ancestry. African-Americans also helped settle the area, and even pre-dated its founding. Some of the history of these two groups is presented here.
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Children of the Camps: Internment History
An overview of the history of people of Japanese ancestry who were confined to internment camps during World War II. There is a timeline of events and links to original documents.
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Archaeology Info: Australopithecus Afarensis
This site provides information on the Australopithecus afarensis, a species that is believed to be a human ancestor.
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Texas Indians: The Jumano Indians
This article details the history, the tribal ancestry, and the different branches of the Jumano Indians. It describes their way of life, and their interactions with European explorers.
Read Works
Read Works: The Descendants
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage discusses the roles of paleoanthropologists and how they determine whether the remains of a prehistoric species is a direct ancestor or not. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Characteristics of Life
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How do you define a living thing? What do mushrooms, daisies, cats, and bacteria have in common? All of these are living things, or organisms. It might seem hard to...
Wonderville Media
Wonderville: Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born in England on February 12, 1809. He was a "naturalist," best known for his theories of evolution. Darwin collected evidence that all life on Earth "evolved" from a common ancestry. He studied the process of...
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Kunte Kinte Heritage Festival: Kunta Kinte History
This website contains information on Alex Haley's slave ancestor Kunta Kinte. Haley's novel "Roots" is also discussed.
Greek Gods
Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Odysseus
This site focuses on Odysseus including his ancestry, his participation in the Trojan War, his ten-year journey at sea, and pictures and myths about him
Greek Gods
Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Heracles
This site focuses on the Greek hero Heracles including his ancestry, pictures, events in his life, and links to myths about him.
Greek Gods
Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Achilles
This site focuses on Achilles including his ancestry, his participation in the Trojan War, and his weakness ("Achilles heel"). It offers links to pictures and myths about Achilles.
Greek Gods
Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Calchas
This site focuses on Calchas, ancient Greek seer famous for his interpretations of omens. It includes his ancestry, his part in the Trojan War, and his death.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Examples of Analogous Structures
Explains that analogous structures are ones that are similar in different organisms yet have no common ancestry. This type of phenomenon occurs with convergent evolution. Includes lots of examples for both animals and plants.
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University: Embryos and Evolution
In this lesson, students study the embryos of different organisms at three stages of development to look for features that suggest a common ancestry.
Lin and Don Donn
Lin and Don Donn: Ancient China: Daily Life During Shang & Chou Dynasties
This page has information about the Shang & Chou dynasties, including specifics about family, ancestor worship, oracle bones, kings and nobles, warriors, farmers, and merchants and craftsmen.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: Immigration
This is a collection of 24 Grade-Leveled texts (5-11) on the topic of Immigration. Most Americans can trace their ancestry back to immigrants coming to the New World. Learn about America's history of immigration, particularly during the...
University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States, was born on November 2, 1865, on the family farm at Blooming Grove, Morrow County, Ohio. His parents were Dr. George Tryon Harding and Phoebe Dickerson Harding,...
Wisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Historical Society: Elizabeth and Henry Baird
Elizabeth and Henry Baird played a major role in the settling of Wisoncisn to white settlers in the nineteenth century. Elizabeth had been Henry's pupil and married him at the age of fourteen. With her knowledge of the fur trade and her...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Personal Heritage Project
This research project requires middle schoolers to connect with the past by researching both primary and secondary sources for family history. Their findings are presented in a keepsake portfolio and in a multimedia presentation...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Yemenis
The Yemenis are a Muslim and Arabic-speaking people who are mainly Arabs, although a small percentage of the population has African and Asian ancestry. Yemeni values have traditionally relied on a hierarchical, tribally organized, and...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Zande
The Zande, whose homelands lie within three modern African states (Republic of the Sudan, Zaire, Central African Republic), constitute a large and complex amalgam of originally distinct ethnic groups, united by culture and, to a...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Tswana
Batswana are divided into a number of subgroups or "tribes", There are approximately twenty-five totems, which crosscut "tribal" boundaries. Although Batswana received Christian missionaries in the early nineteenth century and most...
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Shona
The Shona-speaking peoples comprise about 80 percent of the population of Zimbabwe, with significant groups in Mozambique. Most of what follows applies to the Shona in Zimbabwe, who have been extensively studied. There are now around...
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