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Title:
| Transportation: Overview |
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Description:
| These sites give a brief overview of the history of transportation. Topics covered include women in transportation, transportation clipart, museum information, and more. Links to eThemes Resources on specific modes of transporation are included. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5 |
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Resource Links:
| Women's History in Transportation
This site describes womens involvement in improving transportation. The side links tell about women in the development of different modes of transportation.
Transportation ClipArt
A good resource for adding clip art to a WebQuest.
Transportation Technology
Here is the history of transportation reflected by United States postage stamps.
From Foot to Flight
Visit this virtual museum of the history of transportation in the United States made by an elementary school. There are activities and glossary included on this site.
The History of Transportation
This article tells about the history of transportation. Find out about the wheel and how it changed transportation forever. All text.
America the Restless: Transportation Technology and US History
This excerpt from Restless Nation: Starting Over in America by James M. Jasper is about our constant desire to travel. Click on "Next" to move to the next page. Mostly text.
Early Transportation
Read this chapter about wheels and early transportation. Then take the quiz from the link "Chapter One Quiz" over the reading.
Transportation Museums
Here is a list of links to different transportation museums. Includes cars, trains, motorcycles, cable cars, and ships. This site also provides a search function to locate museums in your state.
eThemes Resource: Transportation: Automobiles
These sites focus on automobile transportation. Read about the development of the first automoblies as well as the electric cars of today. Contains photographs of old and new cars. Also included is information about the parts of cars and their functions.
eThemes Resource: Transportation: Mass Transit
These sites feature information on various forms of mass transportation. Includes images of the different forms of public transit that are used all over the world.
eThemes Resource: Transportation: Covered Wagons
These sites explain the different types of covered wagons that were used by pioneers to traverse the Oregon Trail in the late 19th century. Topics include the materials, dimensions, usage, manufacturers, cost, and durability of this primitive mode of transportation.
eThemes Resource: Transportation: Trains
Read all about railroads, trains, and the transcontinental railroad. Sites contain historical photos, audio, video, Webcams, and interactive quizzes on this mode of transportation.
eThemes Resource: Transportation: Steamboats
Learn about steamboats and their impact on American history. See drawings and photographs and read first-hand accounts. Includes audio files of steamboat whistles and videos of the boats. Also read about the inventors and builders. Includes eThemes Resources on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Watch a video on steamboats in Hannibal.
eThemes Resource: Transportation: Grades 1-2
These sites about transportation are for children in grades 1-2. Topics covered include automobiles, trains, boats, and aircraft. There are also images and interactive games about the forms of transportation and their histories.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.9, 2.7, 4.6, 3, 8, 2, 6
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