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Do It Yourself lessons

​This is a storyteller's website intended for anyone who likes to learn. It may take you places you haven't been before, it deals with big ideas and true stories. Here parents and children can consider the same stories and ideas and then share thoughts and activities.
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LESSON 1 -  History’s Cut Up: The Story of Andreas Vesalius, who dissected human bodies, which annoyed his teacher, but reshaped the study of anatomy.   
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LESSON 2 - ​A Hundred Years Before Rosa Parks: A look at the story of Elizabeth Jennings Graham and what happened after she sat down on a New York City streetcar in 1854.  

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LESSON 3
​Proving the World Round: How the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan changed what people knew about the shape of our planet. 
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​LESSON 4
Catch a Ride! Catch a Bug! A look at pathogens and how they move around the planet. ​

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LESSON 5
A Book That Costs Less Than a Cow: 
A look at Johannes Gutenberg and the history of printing presses - and a challenge to make a book of your own. ​​
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LESSON 6
History by Dickens: 
How one of the world's great novelists wrote about the story of his own country.


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LESSON 7

​Archimedes’ Claw: Counting numbers and building war machines with Archimedes, the legendary Sicilian mathematician.
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​LESSON 8
​A Number Called Zero? Going back through time to see how we learned to count.

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​LESSON 9

An Irishman Among Iroquois: The story of William Johnson, who traveled to America and learned to live in two very different worlds. ​
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LESSON 10
Lucy In The Sky, Found Underfoot: How fossils found in the 1970's changed the way we think about human development.


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LESSON 11
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​Her Name was Judge: One of George Washington's slaves wanted to be free. Here is her story.
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Lesson 12
​Discovering Viruses: Even though he couldn't see them, one scientist gave them a name. 

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LESSON 13
A Frenchwoman Ahead of Her Time: The story of Émilie du Châtelet's wild life and the equation she discovered. 
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​Lesson 14
On Keeping  A Journal: 
Which Could Make You Famous, as it Did For Two 17th Century Diarists

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Lesson 15
​Imagine You Are a Rich Virginia Slaveowner: Will You Free Your Slaves?
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Lesson 16
Drones at Everest: How one student went from building with blocks to scaling mountains with drones. 

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National Portrait Gallery UK

Lesson 17
Beatrix Potter Likes Lichens: She was known for writing and illustrating "Peter Rabbit," but Beatrix Potter also had a passion for studying a symbiotic organism called lichen.
 
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Lesson 18

The Plague that Bears his Name: The bubonic plague killed millions before the bacteria that caused it, Yersinia pestis, was identified by Alexandre Yersin.
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  • Home
  • About Me
    • BIO
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    • A History of Us
    • The Story of Science
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    • For Individuals
    • For Schools