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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: People and Events: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS American Experience page provides a biographical survey of Alexander Graham Bell's life and inventions.
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Lemelson Center's Invention at Play: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
A summary of Alexander Graham Bell's telephone invention.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
All the primary source documents of the Graham Bell Family can be found at this Library of Congress site. An exhaustive site that is interesting to peruse.
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Read Works

Read Works: Famous Inventors Alexander Graham Bell: You Rang?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares brief biographical information about Alexander Graham Bell and his role in inventing the telephone. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading...
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Read Works

Read Works: Alexander Graham Bell

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes a biography of Alexander Graham Bell. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Invention of the Week: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a biographical sketch of Alexander Graham Bell and his inventions. Find out about Bell's patents in addition to the telephone.
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Other

Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
This biographical site includes a link to a United States House of Representatives resolution recognizing Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone. It also includes information on Bell's (1847-1922) later scientific work.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
An interesting description of the career of the man who invented the telephone. Learn more of his adventurous life as you read. (In Spanish)
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National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information and a photograph of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Famous Americans: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn brief information from the National Postal Museum on Alexander Graham Bell, American inventor of the telephone, who was featured on the ten cent postage stamp.
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National Library of Scotland

National Library of Scotland: Digital Archive: Scottish Science Hall of Fame

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical and scientific information about discoveries and technological advances credited to ten Scots, Lord Kelvin (Kelvin scale), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), James Watt (steam engine), and Alexander Fleming (penicillin),...
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Curated OER

816073: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical sketch of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.
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Alexander Graham Bell Photo Courtesy www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca

For Students 9th - 10th
Alexander Graham Bell Photo Courtesy www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca
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Science Kids: Science Images: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
A photo of Alexander Graham Bell, a famous scientist and inventor well known for making the first practical telephone.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Alexander Graham Bell (1847 1922)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Alexander Graham Bell 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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Other

Lemelson Center's Invention at Play: Sketch From Bell's Notebook

For Students 9th - 10th
View a sketch from Bell's notebook from 1876. From a collection Bell's papers at the Library of Congress.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientist, inventor, and founder of Bell Canada.
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Great Idea Finder

The Great Idea Finder: Invention of the Telephone

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Idea Finder provides information on the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell and its history throughout the years. Links to other sites with information are provided.
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Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out who is credited for the invention of the telephone in this brief history.
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Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
This biographical site includes a link to a United States House of Representatives resolution recognizing Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone. It also includes information on Bell's (1847-1922 CE) later scientific work.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Alexander Graham Bell

For Students 9th - 10th
(1847-1942) Inventor of the telephone
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A&E Television

History.com: Inventions & Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.
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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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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: The Telephone

For Students 9th - 10th
The home page to the PBS feature film on the invention of the telephone. The People and Events section has biographies and commentary on the invention of the telephone and its subsequent success. Be sure to click on Gallery for pictures...

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