On January 4, 1809, Louis Braille was born. Blinded as a child, he later became the inventor of the Braille alphabet which has enabled countless visually impaired children and adults to read. Try this worksheet about the Braille alphabet and see if you can decode the passage shared. Timeline Worksheet: January 4, 1809, Braille […]
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I don’t know about you, but there are some things that I take for granted that they have just always been around. I’m not talking about modern conveniences that are part of our daily routine (though it’s hard to imagine a world without many of them). I’m talking about basics—like chocolate chip cookies. Can you
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I remember going to the grocery store with my mom and sister and watching the clerk run the cash register. I thought it was one of the neatest devices ever invented, and I wanted so much to try my hand at the bar code scanning, total tallying machine. I did get my wish later on
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Caller ID is something many of us take for granted. Our cell phone rings and the caller’s name is immediately displayed. But did you know that it wasn’t until 1982 that caller ID entered our world when Carolyn Doughty, who was employed by Bell Laboratories, filed the patent? Have you ever wondered what would happen
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Have you ever seen a ruble? How about a peso? What about a shekle or a yuan? Would you know where they came from? Try your hand at this currency match-up and see how many currencies you can correctly match with the country they come from. Timeline Worksheet: January 1, 1961 Fits Russian history timeline.* *If
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