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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.
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BBC

Bbc: British Prehistory: Iron Age Tasks

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about and view images of Iron Age tasks.Twelve images and descriptions demonstrate a variety of tools that Iron Age Britons used to accomplish tasks necessary for everyday life. Archived.
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Curated OER

Unesco: Israel: Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel

For Students 9th - 10th
Situated on the western slopes of the Mount Carmel range, the site includes the caves of Tabun, Jamal, el-Wad and Skhul. Ninety years of archaeological research have revealed a cultural sequence of unparalleled duration, providing an...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: World History: Unit: Beginnings 600 Bce

For Students 9th - 10th
This virtual course from Khan Academy is a series of video tutorials and practice links that follow the world's prehistory through 600 BCE.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Art History: Cuneiform and the Invention of Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Article discussing early forms of writing in the Ancient Near East. Includes links to additional information.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: The Allure of Pearls

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibition of some of the first known gems to early humans, this collection of pearls includes several world famous precious stones.
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Cornell University

Cornell University: Hearth/home Economics Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Housed at the Mann Library, this resource contains a comprehensive set of books and journals in the field of Home Economics, many available online. Each subject area in the field has a descriptive essay plus a bibliography related to...
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University of California

University of California: Bampfa: Portrait of Alexander Dix by Sarah Perkins

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the significance of children's portraiture in early America by studying a portrait of young Alexander Dix painted in 1795. The portrait is also a useful resource for learning about how portrait settings can be used to express...
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Italian renaissance.org: Basic Ideas of the Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic information about the Renaissance. Looks at Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, painting, and sculpture. Touches upon humanism.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: A Comparative Analysis: Homo Habilis vs. Homo Erectus

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Homo habilis and Homo erectus, two early ancestors of humans. Discusses how they were discovered, their characteristics, and what we know about them, with the information clearly laid out in a chart along with some comparative...
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BBC

Bbc: Science and Nature: The Day We Learned to Think

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of BBC program entitled, "The Day We Learned to Think." Offers a brief look at man's first works of art, early ability to speak, and evolution of intelligence. Offers questions and answers, a program transcript, and various...
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University of Chicago

University of Chicago Centennial Catalogues: Faculty: Robert E. Park, Sociology

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of Robert E. Park (1864-1944), an influential, early sociologist who taught at the University of Chicago.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Social Realism: Theodore Dreiser

For Students 9th - 10th
Theodore Dreiser is featured as a realistic author who draws upon the social conditions and humanity in America in his writings. Click on "Theodore Dreiser Activities" for related materials.
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International World History: Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization

For Students 9th - 10th
Read here about the Neolithic Revolution and the development of early Stone Age humans into an Agrarian society. Causes of the agrarian transformation are addressed as well as the domestication of plants and animals. The spread of the...
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Palomar Community College District

Palomar College: Flashcards: Homo Heidelbergensis & Neandertals

For Students 9th - 10th
Thirteen flashcards featuring facts about early modern humans.
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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: The Ancient Americas

For Students 9th - 10th
Gain a deeper understanding of the Americas on this journey through 13,000 years of human ingenuity and achievement in the western hemisphere.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Which women made significant contributions to the early Women's Rights Movement in the U.S.? In this teaching unit, students will discover the women involved in the formative years of the struggle for women's rights and the history of...
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Live Wire Media

Good Character: Prejudice

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Children need to learn early to respect other people's difference and not to be prejudiced. Through the discussion questions, writing prompts, and activity ideas presented at this website, students learn "What's wrong with being...
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Royal British Colombia Museum (Canada)

Weaving Doukhobor History

For Students 9th - 10th
Here the life of the Doukhobour culture in British Columbia is discussed. This Russian emigre pacifist sect and their communal way of life helped shape the debate over human rights in British Columbia.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Stagestruck! Performing Arts Caricatures

For Students 9th - 10th
A short overview of the coming of age of the caricature during the early twentieth century. Exhibition was in the Library of Congress Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon from November 1998 to April 1999.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gallery: Civilization

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the images of this gallery and consider how increased productivity from the land, food surpluses, and swelling populations changed the types of communities that humans lived in.
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Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source on Line: Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins: Geography

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discusses how people adjust to where they live. The age groups indicated are for Toddler and Preschool and could be adapted for K-1st grades.
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University of Tokyo: The Minatogawa Man

For Students 9th - 10th
This Bulletin dates from 1982; nevertheless, it offers an excellent report and photographs of the skeleton and skulls found at Minatogawa in 1970.
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Nature Research

News @ Nature: Flores Man

For Students 9th - 10th
Site from News @ Nature provides the story of the remarkable discovery on the Island of Flores, Flores Man. See a great picture of the skull and read explanations and reflections from the leading palaeoanthropologists on the dig.

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