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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: North American Scimitar Cat
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric North American scimitar cat. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: Giant Beaver
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric giant beaver. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: Steppe Bison
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric steppe bison. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: Yukon's Camels
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric camels of the Yukon and Alaska. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: Ancient Caribou
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric ancient caribou. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: Yukon Horse
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric Yukon horse. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: Beringian Lion
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric Beringian lion and the American lion that evolved from it. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and...
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: Saiga Antelope
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric North American saiga. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.
British Library
British Library: The Search for the Northwest Passage
Detailed third grade lessons help students understand what skills and knowledge were required in order to become an explorer. Includes specific lessons on John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson.
Royal Collection Trust (UK)
Royal Collection: Artist's Illustrations of Plants in English Gardens
From the Royal Collection in London, this is a short biography and selection of floral illustrations that made up part of the 154 plate "Flower Book" by the gentelmen gardener Alexander Marshal (c.1620-1682).
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1960 1979
Computers evolve into PCs, researchers discover one new subatomic particle after another and the space age gives our psyches and science a new context.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism: 1940 1959
Defense-related research leads to the computer, the world enters the atomic age and TV conquers America.
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The Map as History: Europe's Colonial Expanision 1820 1939
European countries began exploring and seeking to dominate the rest of the world during the 15th and 16th centuries, thanks to their ability to control sea routes and to the discovery of the American continent. In the 19th century,...
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State Historical Society of Iowa: Mammoth: Witness to Change
An exhibition documenting the discovery of two mammoths and a mastodon, found in Wisconsin and Iowa. The Hebior mammoth was particularly significant as the excavation showed evidence that the mammoth had been killed by humans. Background...
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: Giant Short Faced Bear
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric giant short-faced bear. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians Fin De Siecle
Read articles that address the following questions about the end of the 19th-century literature: What are the key tropes of late 19th-century literature? How did writers respond to the desires and anxieties of the time? How did...
PBS
Pbs: How Art Made the World: Prehistoric Art at Altamira
The PBS series, titled "How Art Made the World," takes a look at the discovery of prehistoric paintings in a cave at Altamira in northern Spain. With excellent close-ups of the paintings and two video clips that help to explain the...
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Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre: Research: Helmeted Muskox
Uncover discoveries from the past by learning about the prehistoric helmeted muskox. Includes information about the time period, physical characteristics, fossil specimens, feeding habits, and habitat.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Art History: Jericho
Article discussing the long history of the city of Jericho and some of the extraordinary archaeological discoveries made there since the nineteenth century. Includes links to additional information and images.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Zoom Dinosaurs
Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic,...
PBS
Pbs Kids:activities and Videos: Structures
PBS site provides videos and activities are hands-on challenges that focus on the engineering design process. They use simple materials, allow for multiple solutions, and are ideal for ages 9-12.
Digital History
Digital History: Rockefeller's Millions [Pdf]
With the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania in the mid 1800s brought a boom to the economy. Read about the beginning of the oil industry, and particularly, John D. Rockefeller's role in it. See how his control of many parts of the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Apollo 11 Stones
The Apollo 11 Stones remain the oldest examples of figurative art from the African continent. Their discovery contributes to our conception of early humanity's creative attempts, before the invention of formal writing, to express their...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 4.2 Influences on Darwin
Learn about Darwin's influences that led to his discoveries of change in species over time.
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