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PBS
When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
For decades, scientists have been studying the cause of the Younger Dryas, and trying to figure out if something like it could happen again. And it turns out that what caused this event is the subject of a heated debate.
SciShow
Milk, and the Mutants That Love It
Got milk? Fact is, most people don't -- and shouldn't -- because for them, ice cream and milkshakes are basically toxic. So why can some people drink milk and survive? Turns out they're mutants! SciShow explains.
SciShow
An Unexpected Tool to Track Ancient Civilizations...Bacteria
Scientists have used a bacteria that commonly infects us to track how ancient humans spread to the Americas from Siberia. And other scientists have discovered a new species of hyrax in the forests of Africa by listening to their barks...
The Daily Conversation
Europe's Refugee Crisis Explained
An examination of the European Migration Crisis.
Professor Dave Explains
Out of Africa (Archeological Evidence of Human Migration)
The origin of Homo sapiens is in Africa. But at some point we began to leave and settle in other parts of the world. When did this happen, and why? What are the remains we have found that document this incredible journey? Let's take a look!
PBS
Where Are You REALLY From? Black Migrations and Immigration, Explained
Human migration is a tale as old as time, but how has that impacted Black culture here in the U.S.? Hallease and Evelyn explore how the movement of Black folks has created icons from James Baldwin to Nipsey Hussle.
Curated Video
Australia's 50,000-Year-Old Superhighways
Archeologists and scientists have mapped ancient migration superhighways across Australia, which were used around 50,000 to 70,000 years ago by the first people to populate the land. These pathways remarkably align with modern...
Next Animation Studio
Researchers find 29 human footprints in Canada
Humans may have been stomping around Canada as early as 13,000 years ago - and they left footprints.
According to a study published in the journal PLOS-ONE, researchers discovered an ancient human footprint along the coast of Canada's...
The Art Assignment
Art about Migration
Migration is central to human experience, and art history reflects that. Skipping through time and geography, we explore Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, Lapita pottery, the Akbarnama, and the Mexica codex "Tira de la Peregrinación,"...
Science360
Human Migration: How Lice Can Shed Light on the Past - Science Nation
Paleo-anthropologists believe Homo sapiens evolved in Africa 100 - 200 thousand years ago, and eventually moved out of Africa to populate the globe. But, how can researchers trace the specifics of that human migration? With support...
Science360
Lice And Human Migration
Paleo-anthropologists believe Homo sapiens evolved in Africa 100 - 200 thousand years ago, and eventually moved out of Africa to populate the globe. But, how can researchers trace the specifics of that human migration? With support from...
Curated Video
Where Are You REALLY From? Black Migrations and Immigration, Explained
Human migration is a tale as old as time, but how has that impacted Black culture here in the U.S.? Hallease and Evelyn explore how the movement of Black folks has created icons from James Baldwin to Nipsey Hussle.
Crash Course
Why Human Ancestry Matters: Crash Course Big History #205
Genetic variation makes for stronger species, but for a mammalian species, humans are disturbingly closely related. Help your class explore human ancestry and genealogy using the 15th video in a 16-part series. It describes how we became...
Crash Course
Migrations and Intensification: Crash Course Big History #7
What happens when the earth reaches its carrying capacity of humans? As human populations grow, societies change from hunters and gatherers to agriculture to the industrial age and beyond. A video takes a global perspective of migration...
TED-Ed
How Long Will Human Impacts Last?
If aliens visit Earth a million years from now, what will they find? Explore the Anthropocene epoch with a hard-hitting video. Viewers examine the changes humankind has made to the planet, how these overshadow events of the past, and...
Crash Course
The Economics of Immigration
Immigration is a topic that likely affects every member of your class, no matter how many generations of their families have been born in the United States. Learn about the reasons economists argue that immigration is...
Curated OER
Human Ancestry Made Easy
Explore the Out of Africa Theory, genetics, and human ancestry with this clear and interesting video clip. Older scientists will gain a basic understanding of how genetic markers have helped anthropologists determine the origin and...
Other
Population Movement Video 2
A teacher-created Geography lesson on population movement. He discusses the push and pull factors that drive people to leave a place and move to a new place, and how some migrations are voluntary, while others are involuntary or forced....
Other
Michael Kauls: Migration Part 1 Why People Migrate
A teacher-created video that focuses on the push and pull factors and intervening obstacles that impact upon why people migrate. [12:49]
Other
Youtube: Why Move West?
Consider the push and pull factor when people decide to move to certain areas. This video highlights reasons why folks were pulled to settle in the west. What was pushing them from their native lands or the eastern part of the nation?...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Tree of Life: Human Prehistory 101 Part 1: Out of (Eastern) Africa
Second in a series of videos that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how our human ancestors spread throughout Africa and then into other regions such as Australia and Europe. How did they reach Australia so early on? What...
BBC
Bbc Nature: Nenets: Shelter Building: Constructing a Chum
Bruce Parry assists the Nenets women to construct the 'chum' living space during a migration to new pasture. The chum is made of poles and reindeer skins. The Nenets are an indigenous group living in the Russian Arctic region. [1:28]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Human Prehistory 101 Part 2: Weathering the Storm
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. [3:24]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Human Prehistory 101 Part 1: Out of (Eastern) Africa
Second in a series of videos that introduces human prehistory, this video describes how our human ancestors spread throughout Africa and then into other regions such as Australia and Europe. How did they reach Australia so early on? What...