Third Grade
Unit 1 | Select Websites
Topic: Industrialization Timelines
- 1752-1990 Technology (Both interactive and text only lines)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/timeline/index.html - 1845-1916
http://pinzler.com/ushistory/timeline7.html - Inventors
http://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blchartindrev.htm - Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie (Timeline overlays his life events with larger national events.)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/timeline/timeline/timeline.html
Topic: Background Resources
- Center for Lowell History
http://library.uml.edu/clh/index.Html - A Smithsonian Introduction to the Unit topic
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=60
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/timeline/pres_era/3_655.html - Indexed Links to Industrialization Sites
http://www.teacheroz.com/19thcent.htm#industrial
http://www.teacheroz.com/19thcent.htm#women
http://www.teacheroz.com/19thcent.htm#gilded - Agricultural Industrialization
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/ngp/history.html - The Westinghouse Works – Inside an American Factory
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/wes/index.html - Sheet Music for Industrialization era music
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/99/sing/intro.html - Small town USA – period photos
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nyplhtml/dennhome.html - Chicago Daily News Photos 1902-1933 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html
- The Wright Brothers
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wrighthtml/wrighthome.html - Moving Pictures 1894-1915
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html - The Tenement Museum in NYC
http://www.tenement.org/education_lessonplans.html
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