Curated OER
Writing Exercises: Early Peoples
Human prehistory is an exciting topic for many learners! Engage your social studies class in critical thinking by having them answer the three short essay questions on this worksheet. They need to know why prehistoric people migrate, how...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: What Does It Mean to Be Human, Human Characteristics
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.
BBC
Bbc: New World Link to Arctic Find
Could the findings at Yana in northern Siberia point to an earlier crossing into the New World? Scientists are studying the evidence that point to sophisticated human hunters throughout the area at an earlier era than previously thought.
Other
Logan Museum of Anthropology: European Prehistoric Cultures
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...
Curated OER
Different Views of a Spear Foreshaft, Pitulko
Could the findings at Yana in northern Siberia point to an earlier crossing into the New World? Scientists are studying the evidence that point to sophisticated human hunters throughout the area at an earlier era than previously thought.