Student Handouts
Compare and Contrast: American Business Leaders
Gather information about various business leaders in this graphic organizer. Pupils fill in information about Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Frank Woolworth, John Jacob Astor, John Rockefeller, and William Randolph Hearst in...
Curated OER
The Throwaway Three: A Skit
Students investigate how much waste we produce and how we dispose of it.
Curated OER
Environment: River of Life
Students assess the impact of human activity on the environment. After reading the book, "A River Ran Wild," they role-play and discuss how people changed the river. Students write stories about living along a river from the point of...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Henry Clay Frick
A brief biography of Henry Clay Frick describing his rise in the business world to being one of the most influential industrialists at the time. Find out why anarchists of the time held so much animosity toward him.
Other
Elijah Embree and the Embreeville Ironworks
This site gives a biography of Elijah Embree, one of East Tennessee?s leading industrialists of the early 19th century and in the iron industry around the world.
Curated OER
Smithsonian Libraries: Erastus Brigham Bigelow (1814 1879)
A portrait of Erastus Brigham Bigelow from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
Curated OER
Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Walther Rathenau (1867 1922)
A portrait of Walther Rathenau from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.