ClassFlow
Class Flow: Community Changes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses basic community changes including changes in population, inventions, and transportation.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Nikola Tesla
Brief biographical sketch of Nikola Tesla, famous electrical engineer who invented the alternating current transmission system.
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Dayton Art Institute: An European Portrait
Before cameras were invented artists painted portraits to show what people looked like. This website shows a famous portrait done by artist Peter Paul Rubens and tells you how to create a portrait on your own.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Car
Illustrated discussion of the first car in 1769, the first practical car by designer Karl Benz in 1885, and the invention of combustion engines.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: All About China
At this site from Enchanted Learning, you can learn all about China, view a map, and try some of the activities provided. Activities include printing out China's map and coloring it and learning Chinese numbers from 1 to 10.
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Creative Kids at Home: Water Chimes
Learn to make your own water chimes with the instructions included on this website. Kids will enjoy making their own music with this easily made instrument.
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Creative Kids at Home: Rain Sticks
Making homemade instruments is always fun for young kids. Help them make these percussion rain sticks using ordinary materials. Kids will have fun decorating and playing their rain sticks.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: An Era of Innovation
Students research and learn about the history of transportation. Groups design and present a decade in transportation exhibits to share with the class.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: An Era of Innovation
Students research and learn about the history of transportation. Groups design and present a decade in transportation exhibits to share with the class.
Curated OER
Black Inventor Online Museum: Andrew Beard
A short biography of Andrew Beard, whose invention improved the safety of railroads in the 19th century.
Curated OER
Black Inventor Online Museum: William Purvis
Read about the African-American inventor, William Purvis, who improved the fountain pen. Included is a list of his other inventions.
Curated OER
Otis Boykin
Otis Boykin invented electronic control devices for guided missiles, IBM computers, and the control unit for a pacemaker.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Thomas Edison
Brief biographical sketch of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of the light bulb and phonograph.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown
Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Fuller Brown, inventors in New York state who developed the antifungal drug Nystatin, are featured in this brief biography.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Hot Air Balloon
Covers the birth of the hot air balloon in 1783 with details on improvements to the modern day balloon.
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