Curated OER
America's Stone Age Explorers
Students 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...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Southeastern Prehistory: Paleoindian Period
Paleoindians were great wanderers, traveling across the continent to the southeast. Read about the archaeological findings that give clues about their culture there. Be sure to click on the information on carbon dating to help understand...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: From the Top of the Food Chain Down: Rewilding Our World
Our planet was once populated by megafauna, big top-of-the-food-chain predators that played their part in balancing our ecosystems. When those megafauna disappear, the result is a "trophic cascade," where every part of the ecosystem...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: History of Cenozoic Life
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of life of the Cenozoic Era.
PBS
Nova: Bone Diggers: Australia's Vanished Beasts
Get profiles of 10 different examples of Australia's extinct megafauna. Each profile includes a picture of what the animal looked like.
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Varanus (Megalania) Priscus
Varanus priscus was a prehistoric lizard that lived in Australia in the Pleistocene Period. Some information and pictures can be found here.
PBS
Nova: The Extinction Enigma
45,000 - 50,000 years ago the megafauna of Australia became extinct. This interview investigates several possible causes such as, continental drift, human impact, and climate change.