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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Benjamin Franklin Timeline

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a timeline of Benjamin Franklin's life. Each flipchart page highlights a high point in Franklin's life.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: American Leaders

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart focuses on the American leaders and their contributions to our country.
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Robin Chew

Lucid Cafe: Benjamin Franklin American Statesman and Inventor

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a short biography on Benjamin Franklin. There are links to other sites, including videos.
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Benjamin Franklin House

For Students 9th - 10th
The only remaining Franklin home, the one in London, has opened as a dynamic museum and educational facility. Although there is not a lot of information on Franklin himself, the conservation effort and subsequent use of the museum is...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: The Treaty of Paris

For Students 4th - 8th
Kids learn about The Treaty of Paris; the final end to the American Revolutionary War.
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute Online: Electrified Ben

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Franklin Institute Online provides a somewhat simplistic but interesting tale of Ben's electrical activities. Fine link to "electricity bells", in Franklin's own words. Some other links to projects, maybe not so...
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: Ben Franklin: Glimpses of the Man

For Students 6th - 8th
Brief glimpse into the life of Benjamin Franklin: scientist, inventor, writer, statesman, philosopher, and economist.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview and biographical facts on the life of Benjamin Franklin, an inventor, scientist, and Founding Father who helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Founding Fathers

For Students 9th - 10th
Article focuses on the seven Founding Fathers and their involvement in creating the United States of America.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Benjamin Franklin: Founding Father and Inventor

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site find Benjamin Franklin's biography. Learn about this inventor, scientist, statesman, and Founding Father of the United States.
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
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Curated OER

Benjamin Franklin

For Students 6th - 8th
This site has a timeline of world history from 1700-1799.
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Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World

For Students 9th - 10th
This attractive, well-designed site, developed to mark the three-hundredth anniversary of Franklin's 1706 birth, tells the story of Franklin's life and accomplishments. Learn how his roots as an ambitious, outspoken teen helped him to...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
Benjamin Franklin managed men, the whilom printer, king's postmaster-general for America, discoverer, London colonial agent, delegate in the Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.-E. Benjamin Andrews, 1895
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
A profile of Benjamin Franklin
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Born in 1706 and died in 1790.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
Benjamin Franklin running away from his home in Boston. He is heading to New York to find work at a printing house.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
Benjamin Franklin on the face of a medal.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Benjamin Franklin

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a black and white image of Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America and a leading scientist who made discoveries related to electricity.
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Benjamin Franklin (1706 1790)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Benjamin Franklin from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Benjamin Franklin (1706 1790)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Benjamin Franklin from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.