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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the connections between the science of sound waves and engineering design for sound environments. Through three lessons, students come to better understand sound waves, including how they change with distance, travel...
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Activity
Georgetown University

Pdba: El Salvador: Political Database of the Americas

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the political parties in El Salvador and the dates they were founded. Includes names and telephone numbers of party leaders.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Strength in Numbers?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Ever try to tear a telephone book in half? Even though you can easily rip one or a few pages to shreds, the entire phone book has strength in numbers and holds together. This project is an introduction to measuring and comparing the...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Newshour Extra: Neuroscience Basics Through Puzzles and Dance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This interesting lesson plans uses giant neutron puzzles, the game of telephone, and dance to explain how transmitters and receptors work in neurotransmission.
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Website
Canada Science and Technology Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum: An Exhibit on Communications

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the development of telecommunications from the earliest times to the most advanced technologies! Useful research tool highlighting the telegraph, telegram, telephone todigital networks and computing in Canada.
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Website
National Library of Scotland

National Library of Scotland: Digital Archive: Scottish Science Hall of Fame

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical and scientific information about discoveries and technological advances credited to ten Scots, Lord Kelvin (Kelvin scale), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), James Watt (steam engine), and Alexander Fleming (penicillin),...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hello, Are You Listening?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students gain a basic understanding of the engineering components behind telecommunications, in particular, the way telephone communication works to link one phone to another for conventional landline and cellular telephones. During this...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Minerals in Our Environment

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What minerals are in your toothpaste? A pencil? A telephone? This interactive resource adapted from the U.S. Geological Survey illustrates the variety of minerals used in everyday items found in kitchens, bathrooms, offices, and yards.
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Website
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Jfk Presidential Library: Integrating Ole Miss: A Civil Rights Milestone

For Students 9th - 10th
This site lets visitors learn about the integration of the University of Mississippi firsthand through the actual letters, recorded telephone conversations, and images of those who made history.
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A&E Television

History.com: Inventions & Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: People and Events: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS American Experience page provides a biographical survey of Alexander Graham Bell's life and inventions.
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Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Line Installers and Repairers

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about line istallers and repairers. Topics covered include working conditions, training, job outlook, earnings, and related careers.
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Handout
US Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Telecommunications Equipment Installers

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about telecommunications equipment installers. Topics covered include working conditions, training, job outlook, earnings, and related careers.
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Website
Other

Federal Communications Commission: About the Fcc

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the FCC provides an in-depth look at the Federal Communications Commission and the job it performs.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
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Unit Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: From Carbons to Computers, the Changing American Office

For Students 9th - 10th
A site including lesson plans, photographs, and text about the offices of yesterday and those of today. Topics discussed include office equipment, office organization, globalization, and technology. Also included is an historical...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Transistorized!

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a tour of the discovery and development of the transistor form PBS, including video and lesson plans.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Thomas Edison's Inventive Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a complete resource for learning about Edison's life, his inventions, and electricity. If you like experimenting, there are instructions included for how to make your own light bulb. Good photos.
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Other

Net2 Phone

For Students 9th - 10th
Net2Phone is a software program that allows you to make free phone calls from your PC.
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Website
Princeton Review

The Princeton Review: Service Sales Representative

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the career of a service sales representative, including requirements on becoming a service representative, related careers, the projected quality of life, and future job outlook.
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
All the primary source documents of the Graham Bell Family can be found at this Library of Congress site. An exhaustive site that is interesting to peruse.
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Graphic
Library of Congress

Loc: Map Collections 1500 2002

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection provides maps dating back to 1500 up to the present. The collection includes: cities, towns, discovery and exploration, conservation and environment, military battles, cultural landscapes, transportation, communication,...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Alexander Graham Bell: Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using a short video and two primary sources, students will learn about Bell's inventions and his work with the deaf community.
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Handout
Wonderville Media

Wonderville: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 2nd - 5th
After you talk on the telephone, you might want to thank Alexander Graham Bell, the man who made it all possible. He built the first telephone over 100 years ago. Learn more about Alexander Graham Bell in this well-constructed overview...

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