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Smithsonian Education: From Carbons to Computers, the Changing American Office Unit PlanSmithsonian Education: From Carbons to Computers, the Changing American Office Unit Plan
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Smithsonian Institution
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Smithsonian Education: From Carbons to Computers, the Changing American Office

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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 timeline of "corporate milestones" and lesson plans.

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globalization, goal setting

Additional Tags

global office, history of calculating machines, history of computers, history of offices, history of the telephone, history of typewriters, impact of technology on society, office design, office machines, office organization, offices, technology in society, oh ic.sle.6.c, oh ic.sle.7.c, technology & society

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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