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America's Stone Age Explorers

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Learners watch a Nova program examining the earliest in habitants of the Americas. In groups. they take notes on various topics covered in the program. Among the topics covered are: the Clovis people, Solutrean culture, migration routes, and genetic evidence. to conclude the instructional activity, students role-play as forensic scientists solving a missing persobns case through the evidence of mtDNA.

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6th - 8th
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Science
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