Introduce students to a variety of primary sources with these short inquiry based lessons. http://www.cyberbee.com/rss/primary_source.xml 2009 Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:03:08 -0400 ljoseph@cyberbeelearning.com Sun, 31 May 2009 23:52:34 -0400 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Newspaper clippings are often kept because an individual is interested in the person or information provided. Examine this clipping dated June 24, 1910. http://www.cyberbee.com/june09_sites.htm B8EE28BB-1A5C-4B76-B87B-7F9BD5975CBE Sun, 31 May 2009 23:52:34 -0400 A verse was found written in the back of an old book dated 1869. Stories and poetry clipped from magazines and newspapers were pasted on top of the pages. In the front of the book was the name Sadie Barnaby. View this short poem and think about what it means. http://www.cyberbee.com/may09_sites.htm D223910D-739E-42DE-BDA3-53BF321C5E01 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:57:56 -0400 Sheet music was well established in the United States by the early 1800s. Early music was printed with engraved plates. By the 1840s, chromolithography was used to create illustrated covers. After the Civil War, the stereotype process allowed publishers to mass produce sheet music. It became so popular during this era that it was issued as supplements to newspapers. Source: The Library of Congress The Whistler and His Dog is an instrumental piece of music for piano (without words). http://www.cyberbee.com/april09_sites.htm B148EED7-4115-46F5-B8DF-95E64EAE1714 Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:22:52 -0400 Effie Barnaby was a Postal Telegraph Manager at the Massillon, Ohio branch in the early twentieth century. On Friday, June 30, 1911, she received a message from Mr. Collins that she was being moved to the Cleveland, Ohio branch and would be checked out on Monday, July 3. Read her account of the event and what happened. On one of her letters she writes, "about the law for working hours for women that nearly made me lose my job." http://www.cyberbee.com/march09_sites.html 73250A72-C605-43E7-B854-75B84552F5C3 Sun, 1 Mar 2009 11:35:51 -0500 In 1877, Thomas Edsion found a way to record sound on a tin-foil cylinder. A few years later, Chichester A. Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter developed a wax cylinder. In 1887, Edison continued working on his phonograph using wax cyliders. The phonograph became a popular form of entertainment. Listen to an example of an early recording. http://www.cyberbee.com/february09_sites.htm AF32C8E6-9166-43B0-BC97-6A6942B958C2 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:53:11 -0500 Learn about Victorian trade cards by examining two examples from J&P Coats. Trade cards were very popular advertisements for products and services during the late 1800s. In fact, people collected them and pasted them in scrapbooks. http://www.cyberbee.com/january_sites.html FA75B746-D8BF-4830-A607-984D18C52C3D Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:06:46 -0500