Other
Personal Site: The Discovery of Fire
A firth grade lesson plan designed to introduce students to the discovery of fire and how early man might have discovered how they could use "fire".
University of Oxford (UK)
Pitt Rivers Museum: Methods of Making Fire
An informative article summarizing the history of fire, how humans have used it and the various methods humans have used to start a fire.
Read Works
Read Works: Survivor
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the life of Cro-Magnon people. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Kim's Korner: The Educator's Reference Desk
A great cross-curricular lesson that focuses on humanity in the time of the Stone Age. Students will study prehistoric cave paintings and then produce their own paintings as part of a large mural.
BBC
Bbc: Science and Nature: Ice People 200,000 Years Ago
A look at Neanderthals, including their appearance, their life during the Ice Age, and their extinction. Follow suggested BBC and non-BBC links for further reading.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Video Transcripts
A page that holds all the transcripts for videos included in the early human unit.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Claim Testing: Collective Learning
An exercise where students will make determinations about whether claims about collective learning are true or false using the claim-testing procedure.
Curated OER
Macmillan/mc Graw Hill: The World: V. 1: Rivers and Civilizations: Lesson 1 Quiz
A five-question quiz on early humans, with reference to the Blombos and Border Caves in South Africa.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science: The Oldest Known Campfires?
A short article reporting on the discovery at an archaeological dig of an apparent human-controlled fire from 790,000 years ago. This early human would have been hominids.