Activities
One of the best ways to learn is to play. We have a collection of activities that let you learn anthropology by playing. You can try a anthropology experiment or test your knowledge with one of the anthropology puzzles based on our stories. There are printable and online coloring pages and work sheets that you can use to practice your coloring skills. With so many activities you might find it hard to choose, so don't. You can try them all.
Quizzes
Read Chipping Away: Tools in the Stone Age and then take this quiz to test your knowledge!See what you know about tools in the Stone Age!
Experiments
When you put on the mitts and try to build a structure, you will get a sense of how hard it would be to do things that we do every day if our hands were shaped differently.
Experiments
The modern human brain is the largest and most complex of any living primate. As you will learn in this activity, it is also larger than the brains of our ancient human ancestors. What does brain size have to do with our biology?
Quizzes
Read Life is Spelled A, T, C, G and then take this quiz to test your knowledge!Test your knowledge about DNA and see how well you can replicate what you learned!
Activities
The Lucy Mission will be the first space mission to explore a group of small asteroids known as the Trojan asteroids. We want to engage you in a contest connecting the human ancestor “Lucy” and the exploration of the some of the oldest objects in the solar system—the Trojan Asteroids or “fossils of the Solar System”!
Activities
Even very young human children can learn simple games such as working together to pull a board. They can also figure out a fair way to share the rewards from cooperating. This activity may seem simple, but humans are the only animals with the ability and desire to work together and negotiate a fair deal in this way.
Quizzes
Read More than Just Another Idea: Technology and Human Learning and then take this quiz to test your knowledge!
Experiments
When you tape down your thumb, you’ll get a sense of how hard it would be to do many things if our hands were shaped differently. Even a simple task like placing a straw in a bottle becomes difficult!
Experiments
humans have evolved a whole suite of specialized skills to help us survive. Perhaps the most important of these skills was our ability to make and use tools. Did you know that crows use tools, too?
