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Curated OER

The Underground Railroad

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use vocabulary related to the Underground Railroad. They identify key facts related to the Underground Railroad, evaluate their personal responses to the Underground Railroad and make a judgment about the morality of the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Advances in Civilization: A Car or a Horse?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate the ways in which horses made transportation, hunting and agriculture much easier for the native peoples. They then compare advantages of a horse "back then" to the ease transportation (mainly cars) make on our...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Snowshoe Orienteering

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discuss the history of the snowshoe. They wear snowshoes to experience how Aboriginal people used snowshoes. Students simulate a hunting trip. They walk a course, in snowshoes, collecting information on the course and recording...
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Handout
Other

Saudi Aramco World: Beginning of the End for Hunter Gatherers

For Students 9th - 10th
Article details the remarkable archaeological discoveries in a region of Turkey where excavations at a Neolithic site point to a society in transition, from nomadic to agricultural.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc: Life as a Hunter Gatherer

For Students 9th - 10th
A BBC News article that describes the work of Hugh Brody, a researcher of groups that live by hunting and gathering for natural and food resources. Brody describes his experiences of living with the Inuits in the Arctic who hunt and fish...
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Hunter Gatherer Menu

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the diet of our foraging ancestors through this exercise. At the end of this exercise, students will be able to compare our diet to our ancestors.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Cbc: Human Odyssey: A World of Extremes

For Students 9th - 10th
Immerse yourself in the nomadic worlds of people who live in extreme environments. The Badjao are sea nomads in the Philippines who still live a hunter-gatherer existence but they do it on water. The Bushmen are desert nomads living in...
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Article
University of Chicago

University of Chicago: Teach Middle East: Hunters to Farmers

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay reviewing the history of the Neolithic Revolution where humans begin as nomadic hunters and gatherers and evolve into villages with domestic agriculture and animals.
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Kikuyu

For Students 9th - 10th
The Kikuyu, a major ethnic group of Kenya, numbered about 4.4 million in 1987, accounting for about 20 percent of Kenya's population of 25 million.The Kikuyu were originally hunter-gatherers, but they gradually adopted horticultural...
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Article
Other

Rolf E. Moore and Texarch Associates: Texas Indians: A Little Basic Anthropology

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this article to find out how anthropologists study Native American culture. You can find out about governmental organization, the difference between farmers and hunter-gatherers, and discussion about language. A great summary of...
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Fali

For Students 9th - 10th
The Fali belong to the vast paleonegritic group of people who are sometimes designated "Kirdi" (pagans), as opposed to the Islamized Peul or Fulbe, with whom they share the northern part of Cameroon. The Fali are farmers and...
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Article
University of Chicago

Teach the Middle East: The Neolithic Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article you will learn about the chronology of the Neolithic Revolution. Stages include the Paleolithic age, a time of nomadic hunter-gatherers roamed the globe and the Epipaleolithic age, when sedentary hunter-gatherers...
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Article
College Grad

College Grad: Job Hunter Articles

For Students 9th - 10th
Look up the latest installments in this e-zine, the #1 college newspaper column for entry level job search. Access job search articles to assist you in finding the job of your dreams.
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Website
Cornell University

Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking: Native Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Picked from an all-inclusive site of art terms from Charlotte Jirousek's interactive textbook at Cornell University. The historic background of Native Americans in North America with a synopsis of the Woodlands people.
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Conquistadors

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge website that provides a virtual field trip exploring the Spanish adventurers who quested for gold and land in the New World. The site has information on Pizarro, Orellana, Cabeza de Vaca, Cortes as well as extensive information...
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Website
Other

Early Cultures: Pre European Peoples of Wisconsin: Archaic Tradition

For Students 9th - 10th
The Indians in the Archaic period changed somewhat from the Paleo-Indians before them. Find out about the game they hunted, and the changes in the tools they used. Find a handy chart that consolidates the information about the Archaic...
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Website
Other

Early Cultures: Pre European Peoples of Wisconsin: Woodland Tradition

For Students 9th - 10th
This informative site gives a great description of the life of the Indians of the Woodland tradition. Read about their hunting tools, food, pottery, and the mounds they built. There is a good pdf chart that consolidates all this...
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Website
Other

Academic360: Academic Jobs

For Students 9th - 10th
Academic360.com is a meta-collection of Internet resources that have been gathered for the academic job hunter. It includes links to faculty, staff, and administrative announcements and is not restricted to teaching positions.
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Website
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission

Explore Pa History: Meadowcroft Rockshelter Historical Marker

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting article about the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and how archaeologists were able to dig through enough strata to determine that it was the home for paleo-Indians in Pennsylvania about 16,000 years ago. See pictures of some of...
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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Coastal Shell Rings

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains what shell rings are and why they are important in understanding the daily life and culture of Archaic Period groups living in the southeast United States. Read about the theories of the ring sites in terms of...
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Handout
Other

Central Oregon Community College: Ancient Africa: From the Beginnings Bc/bce

For Students 9th - 10th
This detailed timeline traces events in ancient Africa, offering links to pictures, more information and biographies.
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Handout
Travel Document Systems

Tds: Mozambique: History

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Mozambique's history as a colony of Portugal, its eventual independence, and the problems that brought. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
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Handout
Travel Document Systems

Tds: Solomon Islands: History

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the history of the people who inhabited Solomon Islands, their importance in World War II, and the recent history. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
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Website
Other

Colonial America: Native American Cultures

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief look at the Native American cultures before Contact and some discussion of the interaction with Europeans after Columbus. From an on-line American History textbook.

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