Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Technology of the 1800s
[Free Registration/Login Required] Article considers the inventions and innovations in communication, transportation, and manufacturing that drove America forward in the nineteenth century. Includes a link to an interactive history of...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Transportation Engineering Ii
A collection of video lectures from a follow up to a course about transportation engineering. Webpage includes forty lectures from a professor at the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning . Lectures vary in length and cover...
Other
Popular Mechanics: Technology
Popular Mechanics covers the latest in technology. Topics include computers, the Internet, audio, television, and more.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wake Up, America: New Modes of Transport in 19th Century America [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines how new technology and scientific advances of the nineteenth century changed America. Includes ideas for directing students through a...
Geographic
Photius: Mexico Transportation and Telecommunications
This website discusses the transportation and telecommunication capabilities in Mexico. Facts include kilometers of highways and roads, and other related figures.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Technology: Watch Out!
Learn to recognize different safety signs you may see in your community or when traveling. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
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Northwestern University
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Second Industrial Revolution [Pdf]
A lengthy essay on the Second Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author looks at seven major aspects of technology that were affected by the revolution and makes...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Water Transport Satellite
Challenge your students to create a satellite that can hold a cup of water and does not leak during a bumpy rocket launch. This site comes complete with a challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their...
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Background Information for Trains
Get answers to frequently asked questions about trains. For example, what is a steam train and what parts of a train make it move?
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Future Transport
This portable transport vehicle shows what is possible in terms of future transport. Its space age design is unlike anything seen in use today.
Orpheus Books
Q Files: Technology: Space Transport
The story of space exploration is told from the first successful rocket built in 1926 to space probes and the International Space Station.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Smart Buildings, Transport, and Grids
Find out what it means for a piece of infrastructure to be smart?
Library of Congress
Loc: Around the World in 1896
Working in groups, young scholars plan, take, and document a trip around the world in 1896 using World's Transportation Commission. This collection presents documentary evidence concerning the role of technology at the turn of the...
Other
The Communication Oriented Society
Informative site that explores the changes that society and global communications are incurring as communication technology develops and infiltrates the global community.
Other
Odyssey of the Mind: Up to Speed
Students "learn about vehicles, velocity, angles, and energy," as they participate in a variety of creative and hands-on activities, like building adjustable ramps, researching modes of transportation, and predicting "what transportation...
Read Works
Read Works: Steamboats and Railroads
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about transportation changes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Dwellings: The Message of Houses and Their Contents, 1780 1820
Architectural styles of the times reflected the economic status and taste of the individuals who owned the houses. As this turn of the century proceeded from 1780 to 1820, many changes occurred in communication, transportation,...
Geographypods
Geographypods: Global Interactions: Changing Space the Shrinking World
This learning module examines how the world has become smaller as time and space have converged. Transportation is much faster, making places more accessible, goods can be more quickly and easily transported, and the Internet connects...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Classroom Tips
From managing the technology to tips for transporting video files, this resource offers practical advice and strategies for video use.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Engineering Air Traffic
Students work in teams to explore how radar and computer technology is used to provide the necessary data to air traffic controllers. Students become "engineers" as they work to find ways to enhance the current air traffic control system.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Favorite Technologies of the 1950s
Photographic essay recalls some of the best technological advances of the 1950s in cooking, personal hygiene, radio, laundry, television, transportation, and more.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Career Gates: Logistics
This video highlights various careers in logistics that are available in and around the Lehigh Valley. Paul Davis from Nestle discusses how Nestle owns their own trucks and that his division manages using those trucks to deliver products...
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Bullock Museum: Chapter Twelve: Texas and the Nation [Pdf]
A teacher guide designed to support a visit to the Bullock Museum, but can be used on its own using available resources. Includes information, discussion questions, activities, and worksheets. This module looks at Texas in the 20th and...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Nyc Subway Turns 100
America's most famous subway has turned 100! NPR does a fun series that looks at the early technology and the usage of subway in film and song. Be sure to view the galleries of photos and listen to the memories and music!