Class members examine human migration. For this population lesson plan, they read an article entitled, "Freedom of Movement" and respond to discussion questions about the article related to guest worker programs.

How is risk determined? Through the use of a reading passage, individuals or groups learn about bird interactions with man made structures along with wind turbines. Pupils use information from the second reading passage to conduct an...

Learn about the movement of people from one place to another with this informative look at migration. Discover the push and pull factors, migration into Europe, and the main types of migration.

Follow the human migration with this gallery that allows you to observe how our ancestors lived and gathered food.

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.

Hawks's research involves the use of mtDNA studies to hypothesize the ability to survive in certain climatic zones.

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...

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...

An interesting article about the history of Equatorial Guinea. Read about the political and human rights problems that have beset the country since its independence. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.

Explains what the Homestead Act of 1862 was and what it meant for settlers, as well as the Exodus of 1879 when many African Americans became exodusters and left the South. Includes questions for students at end.

Describes the impact of the California Gold Rush of 1848 which brought hundreds of thousands of gold-seeking migrants to the region. This massive influx of people to a place with little law enforcement and no infrastructure led to...

Read about the discoveries of the Spirit Lake Man and Wizard's Beach Man.

This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Robert E. Park, an American sociologist noted for his work on ethnic minority groups, particularly African Americans, and on human ecology, a term he is credited with coining. One of the...

An online exhibition that provides a timeline of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron ages in Europe. Click on the tools for further explanations of the cultures during that era. Explanations are short, but great...