Education 613
resourcesforhistoryteachers Wiki Page Review Form
Name and Date
Robert Maloy/First Class
MA Learning Standard or
AP History Topic
Standard 7.1: Describe the Great Climatic and Environmental Changes
that Shaped the Earth and Eventually Permitted the Growth of Human
Life
Page Summary
This page focuses on deep history, the time between the origin of the
earth 4.5 to 4.6 billon years ago and the emergence of the first humans
200,000 years ago.
Please summarize the key
historical information on the
page (Main points that a
teacher or student will learn
from reading the page)
The page looks at how the continents moved from a single land mass
called Pangaea into their present configuration, what is called plate
tectonics and continental drift and how that theory fundamentally
changed how researchers understood the deep past.
There is material on the Big Bang Theory of the origin of the universe
and the solar system and the 5 great extinction events.
There is also material on Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution (a
topic which also appears in American History Standard U.S.II.10).
There is also material related to the important historical question of who
were the first Americans.
What Primary Sources,
Biographies, Timelines, Maps
or Lesson Plans Did You Add
(or would you suggest
adding)?
Timeline:
 30,000 years ago a single population of modern humans
migrated from southern Siberia toward the land mass known as
the Bering Land Bridge as early as 30,000 years ago, and
crossed over to the Americas 16,500 years ago.
 15,000 years ago, humans had made it south of the Canadian ice
sheets.
 13,500 years ago, human settlement based on spear points
discovered near Clovis, New Mexico
 Older sites now found in Chile, Pennsylvania, Florida, Oregon
and South Carolina.
The Virtual Fossil Museum shows fossils across geologic time
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What Multicultural History
Resources Did You Add
(African American, Asian
American or Latino history,
women’s history, LGBT
history)?
Cross-linked USII.10 and Grade 7.1
Corrected sentence structure and spelling.
Evidence from the 1990s shows human habitation in Monte Verde, Chile,
dating back to 14,500 years ago - a millennium older and much further
south than what was previously thought to be the first people in the
Americas. How they got there is open to debate.
New findings from Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania, PageLadsen flake tools in Florida, and coprolites from Paisley Cave in Oregon
suggest people were in these locations some 14,500 years ago.
The oldest claim for human settlement in the Americas is the Topper Site
in South Carolina, dating back to about 15,000 years ago.
I added material on The Bering Land Bridge Theory along with new
evidence that disputes this long-held view. I added a subhead to the page
for a section on the Peopling of the Americas and the multicultural
history icon
The Land Bridge theory proposes that people migrated from Siberia to
Alaska across a land bridge that spanned the current day Bering
Strait. The first people to populate the Americas were believed to have
migrated across the Bering Land Bridge while tracking large game
animal herds. Most textbooks cite this theory.
I also added:
 “Theories about the Bering Strait” website from the Burke
Museum (multicultural resource)
 “Canada’s First Nations: Migration Theories” website from the
University of Calgary to Standard 7.2.
 Land Bridge Theory and Coastal Route Theory from the
University of Texas Open Website Project
What Multimedia Resources
Did You Add?
(writers and books, interactive
websites, YouTube and other
videos, learning games)?
Personal Learning
Please summarize what you
have learned from working
on the page (both new
historical information or new
ideas and materials for
teaching history)
Quiz Question
There are plate tectonic animations that show the movement of the
continents over time.
A Solar System Simulator from NASA provides amazing views of
planets, moons, and other bodies in space.
 Added a picture of Charles Darwin
 Added icons for lesson plans, historical biography, and
multicultural resources.
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Deep history involves the time between the origin of the earth
and the emergence of the first humans.
New evidence raises questions about Bering Land Bridge as the
sole source for the peopling of the Americas.
The 5 Great Extinction Events.
NASA images of the planets gave me new information about the
solar system.
Scholars agree that the peopling of the Americas happened sometime in
the past 25,000 years. The oldest settlements may have been at which of
the following locations.
a) Monte Verde, Chile
b) Paisley Caves, Oregon
c) Piaui, Brazil [correct]
d) Clovis, New Mexico
Feedback: Unearthed stone tools suggest humans reached northeast
Brazil as early as 22,000 years ago, even earlier than Monte Verde, Chile
(14,800 years ago) and some 10,000 years before remains found in
Clovis, New Mexico or Paisley Caves, Oregon.