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Website
PBS

Pbs: A Science Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
Website for the PBS series "A Science Odyssey." Numerous opportunities to explore the people and discoveries of science.
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Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: Fulton's Submarine

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the technological and political conditions which led to Robert Fulton's invention and development of the submarine. Includes some biographical information and some graphics of early submarine sketches. (Text is the actual radio...
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Handout
Other

Fno: A Questioning Toolkit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An article in which Jamie McKenzie states his belief that each district should create a Questioning Toolkit which contains several dozen kinds of questions and questioning tools. Portions of the Questioning Toolkit should be introduced...
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Website
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity

For Students 9th - 10th
The Engines of Our Ingenuity is a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. The program uses the record of history to reveal the way art, technology, and ideas have shaped us. Episode topics...
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Unit Plan
Have Fun With History

Have Fun With History: Retro Future

For Students 9th - 10th
Have fun with history videos from the past which explored technologies and innovations of the future that is now, some relevant and others not, teaches students about the dreams of the past.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Capital Chips (Part 2)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on the...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Capital Chips (Part 1)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Through the use of a historical timeline of the capital investments made by the company the resulting benefits will be examined. The benefits from the capital investments of Herr Foods, Inc. will be related to their effect on the...
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Smoothing Iron 1882

For Students 9th - 10th
Although not as celebrated as many other scientific inventions, the smoothing iron has its own rich history of development stretching all the way from 400 B.C. to the present.
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Ernst Werner Von Siemens

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how Werner von Siemens became the pioneer of the electro industry and brought about a great technological advancement with many of his important discoveries.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Time for Design

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are introduced to the engineering design process, focusing on the concept of brainstorming design alternatives. They learn that engineering is about designing creative ways to improve existing artifacts, technologies or...
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Activity
Practical Action

Practical Action: Small Is Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
In this activity, students are challenged to look at technologies from the last 100 years and invent a product that could help us all lead a more sustainable future. Includes downloadable activity sheets, a PowerPoint, and a colorful...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 1)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S.government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. For this series of three lessons, the...
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Transportation: They Say We Had a Revolution (Part 3)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons, the...
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Handout
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: James Collip: Isolated, Purified Insulin

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about one of the scientists responsible for inventing insulin for use by diabetics. Read a brief biography on James Collip, and follow links to inventors who worked with Collip, Charles Best and Frederick Banting.
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National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Langer: Mplantable Cardioverter Defibrillator

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Alois A. Langer, a member of "the medical team that invented the first automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator." Also, learn how this invention impacts the medical world.
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Handout
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Willem J. Kolff

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief bio on Willem J. Kolff, inventor of the artificial kidney dialysis machine, and learn the extent to which this invention is being used in the U.S.
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Handout
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Thomas Fogarty: Emolectomy Catheter

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Thomas Fogarty, inventor of the embolectomy catheter, a "device [that] allows a thin balloon to be inserted into a patient's artery and guided through an occlusion." Read about the invention's impact and the inventor's career.
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Handout
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: John Gibbon: Heart Lung Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a very brief bio on Dr. John Gibbon, inventor of the heart-lung machine that he used to "complete the first open-heart operation." Learn about the invention's impact on the medical world.
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Handout
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Dean Kamen: Ambulatory Infusion Pump

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is information on Dean Kamen and his invention, the ambulatory infusion pump, or the AutoSyringe, that "free[s] patients from round-the-clock injections."
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Handout
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Robert Ledley: Diagnostic X Ray System/cat Scan

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the inventor of the CAT Scan, Robert S. Ledley. This site includes a brief bio and information on the invention's impact on the medical world and patients.
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Handout
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: James J. Wynne: Far Ultraviolet Procedures

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about James J. Wynne, co-inventor of the laser technique used in LASIK eye surgery. This page includes a bio, an overview of the invention's impact on the medical world, and a portrait of Wynne.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: America at the Centennial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan requiring student to analyze primary documents from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Learners interpret what these historical artifacts say "about the lives and values of Americans in 1876" among other things.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Silicon Valley: Success, Failure, and a Bit of Luck

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the historic growth of the famous high tech California region known as the Silicon Valley! Read as circumstances placed creative people, and business in the right place at the right time allowing them to come together to...
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Website
National Academy of Engineering

Greatest Achievements: Telephone

For Students 9th - 10th
This resources features an overview of the history behind the technological development of the telephone today and a timeline showing the important dates.