Nicole Belisle
Description: This picture shows the timeline of communication technology and how it has changed through the years.
Rationale: The picture is colorful and attention grabbing and goes through the whole history of communication.
Description: This articles gives facts about cell phones, and why cellphones are important.
Rationale: This website is set up for kids so the words are easy to ready for 3rd graders and the page is colorful and interesting.
Description: This article talks about the electronic side of communication through the years
Rationale: The website has easy to understand words and explanations that are short and to the point
Description: This video is a quick and creative look at how communication has changed through the years.
Rationale: This video would be a good way to get the students all on the same page and ready to get into the lesson
Description: This video gives a look at the development of communication through the years.
Rationale: This video give good information, is short and to the point, and isn't boring to listen to.
Description: This site allows students to input a sentence and see it translated into Morse Code
Rationale: This activity is easy for the students to play with and it allows students to see visually what Morse Code looked like and hear what it sounds like.
Description: This video shows how phones have changed in the last 100 years.
Rationale: This is a quick and to the point video that shows students how phones have changed through the years without boring the students to death.
Description: This video gives an explanation as to how pigeons were taught to deliver messages.
Rationale: This video is animated which makes it a little less dull to listen to and also is short and to the point and doesn't use many hard to understand words.
Description: This article gives a look into cave drawings and theories as to how they were used.
Rationale: This website is full of information about one of the earliest forms of communication in an easy to read format.
Description: This acticle gives information about homing pigeons and how they were used.
Rationale: This article helps show the importance of homing pigeons through big events in history, like WW1, and uses words that 3rd graders can understand.
