Grade Range: 3-12Resource Type(s): Interactives & MediaDate Posted: 6/10/2008
This activity will help students understand how polio affected the lives of Americans throughout the 20th century. Got Ramps? illustrates the changes in architectural barriers between 1955 and 2005, before and after the Architectural Barriers Act (1968) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990). Playing the part of a wheelchair user, students choose a postcard and make the decisions required to deliver it to the post office. They can then email the virtual postcard to someone that they know. This game is part of the online exhibition, Whatever Happened to Polio?
This early respirator for producing artificial respiration over long periods of time was designed...
infantile paralysis, paralysis, United States history, 20th century, architecture, health, Polio, US history, disease, world history, poliovirus, twentieth century, History, American history, Whatever Happened to Polio, civil rights, 1900’s, science, medicine, medical, poliomyelitis
A picture book that tells the story of athlete Wilma Rudolph, her struggle against polio, and her...
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