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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Trace Your Ancient Ancestry Through Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science project, you will investigate the secrets of your distant past as revealed by your DNA. In order to obtain a sample for DNA analysis, you will scrape a soft swab inside your mouth to collect cheek cells. Based on the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ancestors Talk Through Drums

For Students 9th - 10th
In this segment from EGG:the arts show, meet Camilo Gaetan who is becoming a master drummer.
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Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum: A Late Qing Dynasty Home

For Students 9th - 10th
A multimedia-rich exhibition that explores the traditional Chinese home of the Huang family. With excellent photographs and cross-sections of the structure of the home and its surroundings. Includes a fascinating genealogy of the family...
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Other

Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation: Family Histories

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the stories of six Americans with different backgrounds who wanted to know more about their ancestors' journeys to America and used immigration and genealogy records to complete their family histories.
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PBS

Pbs: Ancestors in the Americas

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Site examines the social, political, and economic issues that influenced the first Asian migration to the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Includes guidelines for helping students distinguish truthful, historically...
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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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University of California

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Homologies

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are from the Understanding Evolution website for teachers. They focus on homologous structures that organisms with common ancestors share.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Lucy: The First Hominid Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the archaeologists who discovered the first Hominid skeleton and other ancestors of humans.
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Georgetown University

Georgetown: Georgetown Slavery Archive Since Last We Met

For Students 9th - 10th
The successors of slave-owning Jesuits and the ancestors of those they owned are coming back together in 2017 in the spirit of penance and forgiveness. In this podcast, Georgetown University student Aidan Kenney deals with the last time...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: A Comparative Analysis: Homo Habilis vs. Homo Erectus

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Homo habilis and Homo erectus, two early ancestors of humans. Discusses how they were discovered, their characteristics, and what we know about them, with the information clearly laid out in a chart along with some comparative...
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Other

On the Trail of Our Ancestors: A Bit of Dutch History

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on the Dutch Republic and the establishment and settlement of a Dutch colony in what later became the English colony of New Jersey.
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Ancestry

Notable Women Ancestors: Mary Barrett Dyer

For Students 9th - 10th
Very detailed biography of Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for her faith in 1660.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 5: Shutting Out the Sky

For Teachers 5th Standards
Focused on immigrant life in the United States and how families sought the American dream, this unit offers students an understanding of how members of a culture meld into communities while trying to maintain cultural identity and honor...
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1509 (Fresco, 245 x 340 cm).
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1509 (Fresco, 245 x 340 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1509 (Fresco, 245 x 340 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1509 (Fresco, 245 x 340 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1510 (Fresco, 245 x 340 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1510 (Fresco, 245 x 340 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1510 (Fresco, 245 x 340 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1511 (Fresco, 240 x 340 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1511 (Fresco, 240 x 340 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1511 (Fresco, 245 x 340 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Ancestors of Christ: Figures

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Ancestors of Christ: figures", created by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1511 (Fresco, 245 x 340 cm).

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