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Edison Invents!
"My pick-of-the-day site is another gem from the Smithsonian. I chose it because it combines multimedia with a well-written feature article, and best of all, it begins with a game. Depending on your mood, there are two ways to navigate Edison Invents! The fun way is to play the Flash concentration game (match Edison’s inventions) and then to travel around the game board, clicking on the icons representing phases of Edison’s life. The more direct route (for those of you with homework due) is to click on Edison’s Story."
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Edison After Forty
"In 1887, at the age of 40 - with a new wife, a new home, a new winter retreat - Thomas Alva Edison set up shop in a new and grandiose laboratory. There he hoped to recapture and ultimately surpass the inventiveness he had enjoyed in the much smaller laboratory he had used a few years earlier. Edison’s goal proved elusive. Edison After Forty, produced by the Smithsonian, is a unique look at the demands that success placed upon the prolific inventor."
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Dr Martin Luther King Scavenger Hunt
Reviewed January 13, 2001 by Rob G., a teacher from Boston who is not affiliated with the site. This is a wonderful site. My colleagues and I found the scavenger hunt format to be entertaining as well as educational. We hope to use it with classes over the next few weeks. It gave me some very good ideas. Well done!!!
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DiscoveryKids.com First in Flight
September 15, 2004: From Janet Sears, a reader from San Francisco Bay Area, CA, who is not affiliated with the site. "This site contains video recreations of the first four Wright Brothers flights."
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Damn Yankees
"Although Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin performed at the Paramount Theater on Broadway in the fifties, Lewis’ dream of "doing Broadway" was unfulfilled until February of 1995, when he opened at the Marquis Theater as the star of "Damn Yankees." The U.S. Tour played more than 60 cities to more than 1,017,000 people. Lewis performed in approximately 616 shows and "tossed in excess of 8,624 canes" in his role as Satan."
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da Vinci’s Inventions
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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da Vinci’s Inventions
"From the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, comes a collection of models created from Leonardo’s sketches. Leonardo’s fifteenth-century illustrations foretold today’s helicopters, parachutes, tire jacks and more. For example, to reach the top of an enemy fortress, Leonardo designed a scaling ladder very similar to today’s hook-and-ladder fire trucks. He drew his mechanical ideas with such exceptional clarity, that five hundred years later, they can easily be used as blueprints to create perfect working models.Exploring Leonardo This comprehensive site for fourth- through eighth-graders, created by the Boston Museum of Science, brings Leonardo’s work alive through activities. It is divided into four sections: Inventor’s Workshop (Leonardo’s machines), Leonardo’s Perspective (Renaissance drawing techniques), What, Where, When? (a brief bio), and Right to Left (his curious habit of writing in reverse).
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Cyber Telephone Museum
"When you think of an old-fashioned telephone, what image comes to mind? Whether it’s a crank wall phone or a potbelly desk set, you’ll likely find it in Ron Christianson’s antique telephone collection. The best clicks are Interesting Facts you’ll find listed under History, and the Picture Index. If you want to wander off topic, try an excursion along the Unusual Museums of the Internet WebRing. Yes, Virginia, there is a Toaster Museum."
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Conversations: Picasso and His Paintings
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Columbus and the Age of Discovery
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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