Instructional Video4:11
SciShow

How the First Americans Got There

12th - Higher Ed
This week, researches published a genetic analysis of the 11,500-year-old remains of a baby found in Alaska, near where the first Americans crossed the Bering land bridge. That analysis has answered some lingering questions about human...
Instructional Video5:52
SciShow

Hyenas Once Lived in the Frigid Arctic

12th - Higher Ed
Prehistoric teeth prove that hyenas once roamed the Arctic and the relationship between ancient crocodiles and climate is more complicated than we thought.
Instructional Video4:14
SciShow

How the First Americans Got There

12th - Higher Ed
This week, researches published a genetic analysis of the 11,500-year-old remains of a baby found in Alaska, near where the first Americans crossed the Bering land bridge. That analysis has answered some lingering questions about human...
Instructional Video2:36
Makematic

Indigenous People before the 13 Colonies

K - 8th
Long before European settlers arrived in North America, the continent was richly populated by many different Indigenous Peoples. In this video, learn about the lives of these original inhabitants.
Instructional Video2:21
Makematic

Historic North America

K - 8th
Prehistory – the time before we had written records – is filled with many unanswered questions. But by studying old objects, like tools and bones, scientists have found clues about North America's earliest inhabitants.
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: A 10,000 Year Stopover en Route to the New World

9th - 10th
The ancestors of Native Americans may have lived for millennia on the Bering land bridge before fanning out across the Americas.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Tree of Life: Human Prehistory 101 Part 2: Weathering the Storm

9th - 10th
Third in a series of videos that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how early humans continued to defy the odds and populated the Americas during the last Ice Age. [3:25]