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Megabeasts' Sudden Death
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Watch Online
Watch the entire program online after the broadcast date. (Quicktime or Windows Media required.) (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
End of the Big Beasts
Learn more about four different hypotheses for why America's big beasts were killed off at the end of the Ice Age. (Grades 9-12)
The Extinction Debate
Follow the heated, decades-long controversy over North America's Ice Age extinctions. (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
Extraordinary Artifacts
View ten Clovis stone tools that include exquisitely carved spear points and other flaked stone artifacts crafted thousands of years ago. (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
Modeling a Comet Airburst
See in this video clip a simulation of what might happen if an asteroid exploded three miles above Earth. (QuickTime or Windows Media required.) (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
Stone Age Tool Kit
Discover in this matching game what roles ten different kinds of primitive artifacts from Europe and North America played for our earliest ancestors. (Flash plug-in required; printable version available) (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
Before Clovis
Explore in this interactive map 28 possible pre-Clovis sites found throughout North America. (Flash plug-in required; printable version available) (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
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