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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.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: What Does It Mean to Be Human, Human Characteristics

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Human Population

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of early human population growth.
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Other

Temple University Med School: Ventricular System Development (Early)

For Students 9th - 10th
Upper-level explanation of early human ventricular system development. Provides interactive labeled diagrams and description of weeks 4, 5, and 6 in embryo development.
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Early Modern Human Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Archaic Human Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
Early human culture from the Paleolithic period is described. Find details about archaic tools, language, clothing, and rituals for burying the dead.
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Flashcards: Archaic Human Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of nine flashcards to help understand the culture of early humans.
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Indiana University

Ensi: Comparison of Human: Chimpanzee Chromosomes Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
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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.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Video Transcripts

For Students 9th - 10th
A page that holds all the transcripts for videos included in the early human unit.
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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...
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Other

Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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PBS

Pbs: Evolution: Origins of Humankind: Homo Sapiens

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Child Development: Normal Stages of Human Development: Birth to Five Years

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a table with information on human physical, emotional, and social development from birth to age five.
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Flashcards: Early Modern Homo Sapiens

For Students 9th - 10th
A set of eleven flashcards featuring facts about the early humans.
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Flashcards: Early Modern Human Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of fifteen flashcards testing knowledge of the early modern human culture.
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Other

Bradshaw Foundation: Volcanic Winter and Modern Humans

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Scientists Discover Oldest Human Ancestor

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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Archaeological Institute of America

Early Homo Erectus Tools in China

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: In Search of Human Origins, Part I: Classroom Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan allows students to identify and plot the locations of important African finds in the search for early human remains.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Native American Religion in Early America

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Predicaments of Early Republican Life

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Columbia University

Nasa: Sedac: Urbanization and Human Settlements

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: What Does It Mean to Be Human: Human Evolution Research

For Students 9th - 10th
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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