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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Are We the Only Humans Left?

For Students 9th - 10th
Just 50,000-100,000 years ago, Earth was home to three or four separate human species, including our most famous cousins: the Neanderthals. New research has shown that Neanderthals were not the brutish, unintelligent cavemen that...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Religion & Science

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Are We Ready for Neo Evolution?

For Students 9th - 10th
Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally- or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make...
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Handout
University of Utah

University of Utah: learn.genetics: Ptc: The Genetics of Bitter Taste

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the PTC gene, and listen to scientists discuss this accidental discovery which lead to important clues about human evolution.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Charles Darwin's Evidence for Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
An article reviewing over the life of Charles Darwin and his evidence of evolution. Find out how this young naturalist who took a trip around the world collecting evidence about how organisms have changed over time.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quiz: How Did the First Humans Live?

For Students 9th - 10th
15 question quiz on the topic of the evolution of humans and how the first humans lived.
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Human Migration Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this activity to figure out where the first humans lived. This activity requires students to read clues and use their understanding of the clues to create a map to give them a visual representation of early humans movements.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gallery: How Did the First Humans Live?

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the human migration with this gallery that allows you to observe how our ancestors lived and gathered food.
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Graphic
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gallery: What Makes Humans Different?

For Students 9th - 10th
A gallery of pictures exploring how humans have evolved to use tools, use language, and much more.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Glossary: Early Humans

For Students 9th - 10th
Glossary for the unit on early humans.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Evolution of the Human Eye

For Students 9th - 10th
The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to a few quadrillion, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant horizon in a third of a second. How did these complex structures...
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Evolution, Plate Tectonics, and Climate Change Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Summarizes the key points about three theories in Earth Science: the theory of evolution, the theory of plate tectonics, and the theory of climate change due to...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Humanity on the Record

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about prehistoric evolution of the human race. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Evolution's Gift of Play, From Bonobo Apes to Humans

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about our similarity to apes, and how they solve their problems so peacefully at times but humans, the more "advanced" species, can behave so primitively. [7:02]
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Four Billion Years of Evolution in Six Minutes

For Students 9th - 10th
Ichthyologist and TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty dispels some hardwired myths about evolution, encouraging us to remember that we're a small part of a complex, four-billion-year process- and not the end of the line.
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Handout
Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Who's Who of Early Man

For Students 3rd - 5th
The little cave man guy with a club welcomes you to the site. Did early man look like him? Mr. Donn has put together a Cheat Sheet of Who's Who of Early Man beginning with the famous Lucy and ending with men that looked a lot like us!
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Website
PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Scientists Discover Oldest Human Ancestor

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists have recently published their research into fossil bones from Ethiopia that they say came from an ancestor common to both humans and chimpanzees. They have named the ancestor Ardipithecus ramidus. In the articles and video,...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Human Ancestry: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
A five question, self-checking concept check over human ancestry and evolution.
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Unit Plan
Other

Becoming Human: Comparison of Human and Ape Chromosones

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wondered how closely we are related to other primates? Join this chromosone comparison adventure to compare the banding patterns of human chromosones to those of apes.
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Handout
Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Looking at Humans

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out about the human species, and why our physical characteristics set us apart form other species.
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Article
Scientific American

Scientific American: Oldest Member of the Human Family

For Students 9th - 10th
This article, published by Scientific American (July 11, 2002), highlights the discovery of a nearly complete skull of the oldest and most primitive member of the human family known yet. This fossil, found in central Africa, contains a...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Life's Grand Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Are nature's complex forms evidence of "intelligent design"? In this Evolution essay, biologist Kenneth Miller explains how the processes of evolution account for complex structures such as the human eye.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Laetoli Footprints

For Students 9th - 10th
This Evolution video segment describes how the famous track fossils known as the Laetoli footprints might have been formed and what they can reveal about the creatures who left them.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: In Search of Human Origins, Part Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate human evolution by comparing height data of North American boys from 1890 and 1960 and discuss the significance of the data in terms of possible reasons for the evolutionary trends identified in the comparisons.

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