Energy and Control: Light and Sound Energy

• World Book
  http://www.worldbookonline.com/
  Simcoe County students and parents, contact your school teacher-librarian for the login and password to access World Book Online.
  
  
• Grolier Online
  http://auth.grolier.com/login/go_login_page.html?bffs=N
  Ontario students see your teacher-librarian for the username and password to access this resource.
  
  
• The History of Invention
  http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html
  Use the timeline at the bottom of the pace to select an invention that has changed the way we live.
  
  
• How Stuff Works
  http://www.howstuffworks.com/
  
  
• The Great Idea Finder
  http://www.ideafinder.com/history/timeline.htm
  Inventions and inventors archived alphabetically and chronologically. Weblinks for inventions are included.
  • 19th Century Innovation Timeline (light bulb, Christmas lights)
  • 20th Century Innovation Timeline (Flashight, traffic light, television, computer, laser, lava lamp)
  • 21st Century Innovation Timeline (iPod)
    
    
• National Inventors Hall of Fame
  http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_0_0_hall_of_fame.asp
  • Invention Channels - use index to the right - computer, communications, agriculture, electricity, chemistry, imaging, medical, industrial, nobel prize winners.
    
    
• Edison Invents
  http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/edison/default.as
  An online game that takes you through Edison's many inventions.
  • Edison's Story
  • Make your own light bulb
    
    
• Learn About Light
  http://www.gelighting.com/na/business_lighting/education_resources/learn_about_light/
  Lessons and on-line quizzes on the:
  • History of Light
  • Timeline of Light
    
    
• Radio Transmission
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/radio/#
  Explore how radio sound s transmitted. Read about Guglielmo Marconi.
  

 



Copyright 2001
Pat Elliott, Library Specialist
Tuesday December 9, 2008 10:33 PM