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Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

American Memory Collection

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

Talk by Lightning Telegraph Science Fair Project

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair

_projects/29/373/

832eb770a8edea5778b0c535dfc83239.html

Morse Code Cryptography (some additional lesson ideas)

http://www.kidskreate.com/article_1009.html

Morse Code Text to Morse/Morse to Text Converter

http://users.scoutnet.nl/~inter/morse/morseform.html

Morse Code at Discovery Museum

http://www.discoverymuseum.net/

communications7/morse/morsecode2.htm

America on the Move Games

http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/games/

Transit People:Transportation and
Public Transit - An Online Lesson

TransitPeople Logo

http://www.transitpeople.org/lesson/trancovr.shtml

Fun & Games: Train Puzzle

http://www.meddybemps.com/9.901d.html

Pioneer Sholes School

http://www.pioneersholesschool.org/

ABC Teach Website

http://www.abcteach.com/

American Sign Language Browser

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm

Houghton Mifflin: Education Place - Graphic Organizers

Houghton Mifflin Education Place Logo

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

Houghton Mifflin: Education Place - Activities

http://www.eduplace.com/activity/

History of Communication - telegraph

http://library.thinkquest.org/5729/telegraph.htm

Alexander Graham Bell

http://www.gardenofpraise.com/ibdbell.htm

History of the Telephone - for kids

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/kidszone/history_telephone.html

PBS

PBS Logo - School: The story of American Public Education

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/evolving_classroom/index.html

Edsitement Lesson Plan

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=319

Books and Children's Literature

Sign Language

Hossell, Karen. Sign Language. Chicago, Illinois: Heineman Library a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., 2003.

American Sign Language

Kent, Deborah. American Sign Language. New York: Franklin Watts, 2003.

Sign Language Literature Series: Ananse the Spider: Why Spiders Stay on the Ceiling

Collins, Stanley. Sign Language Literature Series: Ananse the Spider: Why Spiders Stay on the Ceiling. Eugene, OR: Garlic Press, 1997.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Told in Signed English

Borstein, Harry and Luczak Saulnier, Karen. Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Told in Signed English. Washington, DC: Kendall Green Publications, 1996.

Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Last Updated on August 3, 2007