Clear as a Bell

• Project 1
  
  • (a) Create a timeline showing the history of the telephone from Alexander Graham Bell's first patent, March 7, 1876, to today's fax modems and Internet connections.
    
    
  • (b) Develop a communications vocabulary list including terms from the early history of the telephone up to today's systems.
  
  
  
• Project 2
  
  • Design an Alexander Graham Bell family scrapbook. Include significant events in his life and put captions below them. If you can't find actual pictures, draw your own.
  
  
  
• Project 3
  
  • Make a series of posters showing the most important inventions of the 19th century with their modern counterparts.
  
  
  
• Project 4
  
  • Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone as a result of his interest in deafness. What aids are available today to help the deaf "hear"?
  
  
  
• Project 5
  
  • Investigate the controversy between American Sign Language, lip reading, and other means of communication between deaf and hearing people.
  
  
  
• Project 6
  
  • Alexander Graham Bell developed some unusual kites. Find out more about kite-making and either design our own on paper or make one that can actually fly. (Compare Bell's kite research to Benjamin Franklin's.)
  
  
  

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