Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 8/9/2011
On Time explores the changing ways we have measured, used, and thought about time over the past three hundred years. With this online resource, students will learn how improvements in time keeping technology have led to the increased importance of efficiency, punctuality and regimentation in American life. The resource is divided into five chronological sections that demonstrate America's ever-changing relationship with time.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
In the spring of 1803, Meriwether Lewis began to purchase scientific and mathematical instruments...
commerce, Puritan, industrial revolution, economy, home life, history, innovation, navigation, religion, economic, astronomy, everyday life, time, invention, social history, railroad, calendar, mechanics, business, technology