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PBS

Pbs: Origins

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what Carl Stetter is doing to find the closet relatives to the earth's earliest life forms.
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Other

Earth Sky: The Earth's First Breathable Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the perfect storm of conditions that allowed Earth's atmosphere to contain oxygen.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quiz: How Did Life Begin and Change

For Students 9th - 10th
A five question quiz over the concepts about the beginning of life on Earth. Test your knowledge of this topics.
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Read Works

Read Works: First Life

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the pressure-bomb experiments of Robert Hazen and the origins of life. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Story of the Gospel or Our Saviour's Life on Earth by C. Foster

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Story of the Gospel or Our Saviour's Life on Earth by Charles Foster (c1884), the story of Jesus and his time on earth based on the Bible.
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PBS

Pbs: Origins: Where Are the Aliens?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Was there ever life on another planet? Could there be life on another planet again? What makes the Earth support life? This article investigates these questions in depth.
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Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Cells: Origins

For Students 9th - 10th
Through full-color images and concise information, learn about the origin of cells. Discover some of the notable studies surrounding the history of life on Earth.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Major Domains of the Earth Biosphere

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn about the biosphere, when it originated, how life sustains itself, and what processes occur.
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NASA

Nasa: Image Science Center: Ask the Space Scientist Earth

For Students 9th - 10th
Site from NASA contains a collection of 91 questions pertaining to the Earth's atmosphere, magnetic field, ionosphere, rotation and origin of life.
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University of Kentucky

University of Kentucky: Earth Science Classroom Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A collection of links to activities and lessons that could be used for Earth science concepts including the foil record, creating a timeline of Earth's history, plate tectonics, dinosaurs, and the progression of life on Earth.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introduction to Exobiology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Featured is a tutorial on exobiology and the origins of life. The tutorial covers the nature of prebiotic Earth, the Miller-Urey experiment, possible sites for the origin of life, the search for extraterrestrial life, politics in...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth

For Teachers K - 1st
This PBS documentary provides an overview of the microbial world and offers an exciting glimpse into the field of microbiology. Meet scientists from around the world investigating the microbial world in diverse locations, from a...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Guide, Slides, and Text Reader

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A unit guide for teachers who want to use the Big History Project. Unit includes resources on how life began and changed, how do Earth and life interact, and evolution.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Arts and Humanities: Big History Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Course looking at history of the universe, the solar system, history of the Earth and of life on Earth. Should be cross-checked against videos. Has a few Crash Course videos in the content and the project has a presence on Youtube....
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Geologic Time and Correlation

For Students 9th - 10th
In this amazing interactive tutorial you will learn about what methods are used by geologists to learn about the history of the Earth. Investigate a geologic time scale and learn about how scientists have developed and organized a record...
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Other

Astrobiology Magazine: The Rise of Oxygen

For Students 9th - 10th
A look into what controls the rise of oxygen on the Earth and maybe on other planets as well.
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Other

Carbon 14 Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
Seven pages all about Carbon 14 Dating. Information on half-life, Carbon 14 used to date specimens and artifacts, limitations, charts and graphs. Michael E. Brown Ph.D. contests that the limitations of Carbon 14 dating support the theory...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dams

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Through eight lessons, students are introduced to many facets of dams, including their basic components, the common types (all designed to resist strong forces), their primary benefits (electricity generation, water supply, flood...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Industial Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
At one time, humans, fueled by the animals and plants they ate and the wood they burned, or aided by their domesticated animals, provided most of the energy in use. All life operated within the fairly immediate flow of energy from the...
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Stanford University

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Creationism

For Students 9th - 10th
An entry from the Standard Encyclopedia of Philospohy that analyzes creationism from scientific, philosophical, and theological viewpoints and finds it lacking on all three measures.
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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: Evolving Planet: Precambrian

For Students 9th - 10th
This interesting tour examines how life began on earth, provides images of the first life forms, and delves into the role that photosynthesis sexual reproduction, and natural selection played in the the Precambrian period. Listen to...
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Other

The Ecology Global Network

For Students 9th - 10th
Ecology.com is a great ecology resource. Providing clubs, links, news, information, quotes, shopping, and much, much more.