BBC
Bbc News: Early Humans Followed the Coast
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.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: What Does It Mean to Be Human, Human Characteristics
Explore walking upright, tools and food, bodies, brains, social life, language and how humans ultimately changed the world. Excellent charts, pictures and videos accompany easy-to-understand text on the earliest humans.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Human Population
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of early human population growth.
Other
Temple University Med School: Ventricular System Development (Early)
Upper-level explanation of early human ventricular system development. Provides interactive labeled diagrams and description of weeks 4, 5, and 6 in embryo development.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Early Modern Human Culture
An exclusive group of early humans are classified into the Upper Paleolithic stage because they were more evolved than others. Discover their culture - art, tools for making tools, and social changes - of this era.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Archaic Human Culture
Early human culture from the Paleolithic period is described. Find details about archaic tools, language, clothing, and rituals for burying the dead.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Flashcards: Archaic Human Culture
A set of nine flashcards to help understand the culture of early humans.
Indiana University
Ensi: Comparison of Human: Chimpanzee Chromosomes Lesson
This is a great lesson plan that combines Karoytypes and evolution. Students will recognize that the chromosomes of chimpanzees and humans are remarkably similar, then correlate that to their evolutionary relationship.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Human Migration Patterns
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Video Transcripts
A page that holds all the transcripts for videos included in the early human unit.
The Henry Ford
Early 20th Century Migration: Transportation: Past, Present and Future [Pdf]
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...
Other
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness
This is Chapter One from "Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness," by Ian Tattersall. This chapter presents recent findings about the art and artifacts of early humans, and what those artifacts tell us about the intellectual...
PBS
Pbs: Evolution: Origins of Humankind: Homo Sapiens
Read a description of Homo sapiens as a species, learn about the variety of Homo sapiens fossils that have been found, and discover evidence of the culture of these early people.
Other
Child Development: Normal Stages of Human Development: Birth to Five Years
This resource provides a table with information on human physical, emotional, and social development from birth to age five.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Flashcards: Early Modern Homo Sapiens
A set of eleven flashcards featuring facts about the early humans.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Flashcards: Early Modern Human Culture
A collection of fifteen flashcards testing knowledge of the early modern human culture.
Other
Bradshaw Foundation: Volcanic Winter and Modern Humans
Explanation of the volcanic winter that happened about 20,000 years ago that destroyed most of the human population not living in Africa. Explains how these early people coped with this 1000 years of nuclear winter and how when it was...
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Scientists Discover Oldest Human Ancestor
Scientists have recently published their research into fossil bones from Ethiopia that they say came from an ancestor common to both humans and chimpanzees. They have named the ancestor Ardipithecus ramidus. In the articles and video,...
Archaeological Institute of America
Early Homo Erectus Tools in China
An article which describes a fossil site in eastern China where evidence has been found that Home erectus may have been active in eastern China some 400,000 years earlier than scientists believed. The authors also summarize the debate...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: In Search of Human Origins, Part I: Classroom Activity
This lesson plan allows students to identify and plot the locations of important African finds in the search for early human remains.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Native American Religion in Early America
Lesson plan page from the National Humanities Center details the religious systems of Native Americans and the similarities and differences with early modern Europeans. The site is very interesting and informative, with pictures and...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Predicaments of Early Republican Life
Primary resource material focusses on predicaments in early American history. Students read primary source text to answer questions surrounding the nature of society following the American Revolution, learning about the hopes and fears...
Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Urbanization and Human Settlements
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twenty data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine urbanization in major metropolitan areas of the United States in the late 20th and the early 21st...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: What Does It Mean to Be Human: Human Evolution Research
Research continues to discover evidence left behind by prehistoric man. Discover the climate effects on human evolution and explore how the adaptable survived. The Asian and East African Research Projects in Kenya are described. You,...
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