""Longfellow School 715 S. Highland Oak Park, Illinois 60304 708-524-3060 Thea Perkins, Principal

4th Grade Communication Links

 

Pony Express Information Communicating with people who are deaf Talking Hands - an essay on using American Sign Language. Includes a short history of sign language Braille - Deciphering the Code. Scroll to the bottom of the page for information on Louis Braille and Helen Keller
Early Years of Radio - also has links to how radio waves are emitted and Fm and Am radio Telecommunications - from How Stuff Works - information on many types of communications devices Great Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century -
Radio and TV, telephone, Internet,
laser and fiber optics: Includes history and timeline.
Communications - from Enchanted Learning
Information Age: People, Information & Technology - Images and brief
information on communications technology.
The Pencil Pages - learn all about pencils What Is the Internet? - Think the Internet and the World Wide Web are the same? Check out this site. The Birth of Television - a long article on how television was started
A Brief History of Books - from 50,000 BC to the future
Research

Last updated: July 26, 2004

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