Social Studies Week 10

Who was most helpful in finding a way to use electricity to send a message in code?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Mrs. Sekimoto

• Samuel Morse

• John Baird

Why were very few books probably printed before 1440?

• People did not care to read before 1440.

• Books were written by hand.

• Most printers were also goldsmiths.

• Ink cost too much money.

Read Living in the Information Age. Why do people today have more ways in which to communicate with one another?

• Technology advancements have helped make new communication inventions possible.

• Highways are built better and now you can travel to see your family and friends.

• Telephones are faster than ever.

• Horses that run on the Pony Express are better trained and faster than they once were.

Use Living in the Information Age article to answer. Which words from paragraph 1 help the reader understand the meaning of communication?

• living in an information age

• knowledge of computers

• improvements in technology

• get information from person to person

Which invention was built BEFORE the telephone but AFTER the printing press?

• Apple Computer

• the television

• the electric telegraph

• the radio

Which invention was built first based on the timeline?

• the cell phone

• Apple watch

• the radio

• the daguerreotype photograph

Use the article "Communities Help People Communicate." Which invention probably helped lead to the technology for the invention of the electric telephone in 1876?

• the daguerreotype photograph

• Morse code/the long distance telegraph

• the television

• the cell phone

Use the article "Living in the Information Age."

The reader can tell that ______.

• in ancient times, the only way to communicate was by speaking

• people in ancient times didn’t need to communicate with one another

• people in ancient China wrote letters to one another

• the written alphabet was first invented by people in China

Answer this question after reading the story "Living in the Information Age."

Paragraph 2 is mainly about ______.

• communication uses information

• information can only be sent using a computer

• everyone needs to have a computer at home

• communication was very different a long time ago

Which invention came after the telegraph but before the computer?

• the cell phone

• the printing press

• the daguerreotype photograph

• the wireless telegraph