Technology and Society — Pros and Cons

Overview — Technology and Society

Cell Phones
Cell Phones in Schools — Pros and Cons
Incorporating Smartphones into the Classroom
Banning mobile phones in schools: beneficial or risky? Here’s what the evidence says
Students’ Phone Dependency Mimics Chemical Dependency
Worry over kids’ excessive smartphone use is more justified than ever before
Excessive Screen Time Contributes to Negative Outcomes in Teens

       Smart phones make it easier to find time to read

       Does the Internet Increase Anxiety?

       Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits
as on your own

 

 

 

 

 

JDA HERBAL REMEDY PROJECT

General Sites:

WEBMD

NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND INTERGRATIVE HEALTH — OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT WEBSITE

MEDLINEPLUS — LISTS SOME HERB NOT MENTIONED IN THE SITE ABOVE — FOR EXAMPLE OREGANO

MEDICINENET  — SOURCE FOR ARTICLES ON THE EFFECTS OF HERBS AND ALTERNTIVE MEDICINE

BOTANICAL — AN INDEX OF HERBS, MEDICAL USES, CULTIVATION, OTHER SPECIES

INNVISTA — DESCRIPTION, TRADITIONAL USES, ETC.

GALE DATABASES — Use Science in Context and Student Resources in Context

PROQUEST DATABASE

Works Cited Help

BIBME — APA

Hero Biography Assignment — Ms. Neely

Biographies

Gale Databases — Biography in Context

Cristiano Ronaldo — 1
Cristiano Ronaldo — 2

Matt Urban — 1
Matt Urban — 2

Audie Murphy — 1
Audie Murphy — 2

Rosa Parks — 1
Rosa Parks — 2

Stan Lee — 1
Stan Lee — 2

Beyonce — 1
Beyonce — 2
Beyonce — 3

Barack Obama — 1
Barack Obama — 2

Steve Jobs — 1
Steve Jobs — 2

Magic Johnson — 1
Magic Johnson — 2

Mike Shanahan — 1
Mike Shanahan — 2

ELA BIOGRAPHY — 7TH GRADE

Muhammad Ali

Biography 1

Biography 2

Biography 3

Dalai Lama

Biography 1

Biography 2

Biography 3

Henry Ford

Biography 1

Biography 2

Biography 3

Mahatma Gandhi

Biography 1

Biography 2

Biography 3

Bill Gates

Biographay 1

Biography 2

Biography 3

Nelson Mandela

Biography 1

Biography 2

Biography 3

Mother Teresa

Biography 1

Biography 2

Biography 3

Mulala Yousafzai

Biography 1

Biography 2

Biography 3

 

 

 

 

 

Industrial Revolution Inventions

World Book Online

Battery
1.  Fuel Cell Battery
2. History of the Battery
3.  Battery — Brief History
4. Battery — History
5.  How Batteries Work & History

Bicycle
1.  Bicycling — Leisure and Recreation
2.  Bicycling — Economic History
3.  Transportation — Bicycle & Railroad
Photography
1.  Photography in the 19th Century — advanced reading level
2.  Photography — American History through Literature
3.  Photography — Civil War
4.  Photography — Matthew Brady

Railroads
1.  Railroads — Westward Migration
2.  Railroad — How Railroads Changed America
3.  Railroad — Steam-Powered Railroads & Industrial Revolution
4.  Railroad — Transportation: Bicycle & Railroad
5.  History of Railroads — Library of Congress

Sewing Machine
1.  Sewing Machine — World of Invention, 2006
2.  Sewing Machine — Invention of the Sewing Machine
3.  Howe’s Invention of the Sewing Machine
4.  Story of the Sewing Machine, The New York Times, 1860
5.  Howe’s Sewing Machine
6.  History of the Sewing Machine – About 
7.  Howe’s idea came in a dream
8.  Elias Howe Biography
Steam Locomotives
1.  Steam Locomotives
2.  Locomotives — World of Invention
3.  George Stephenson – Inventor
4.  Steam Locomotives – History
5.  Steam Locomotives — Transcontinental Railroad History
6.  History of Railroads — Library of Congress
7.  Outline of Railroad History — About

Telegraph
1.  Telegraph — UXL History 
2.  Telegraph — Science
3.  Telegraph — U.S. History, 2009
4.  Telegraph — Encyclopedia of Science 
5.  Telegraph — Cavendish Square
6.  Samuel Morse — Biography
7.  Telegraph — UXL Encyc. of Science

8.  Invention of American Telegraphy — Cavendish
Typewriter
1.  Typewriter — ULX
2.  Typewriter — Office Technology
3.  Typewriter — World of Invention
4.  Automatic Writing Machine
Bessemer Steel
1.  Bessemer Steel
2.  Bessemer Steel — Process
3.  Second Industrial Revolution — Steel
4.  Bessemer Process
5.  Birth of Modern Steel Makers
6.  The Steel Industry
7.  Iron in the 19th Century

Clock
1.  Clock & Benjamin Banneker 
2.  Work & Impact of Benjamin Banneker

 

Machine Makers — See sidebar on Patents