Timeblazers: Message In A Bottle
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Modern emails, pagers, faxes, and cell phones! It's all about communication with Timeblazers Sam and Jen, who travel back to test out different communication methods. The message-in-a-bottle tactic proves it could be a long wait before the tide comes in to carry the bottle to sea. It wasn't that long ago that to "log on" meant to throw a log on the fire to send smoke signals. There was the Pony Express and horse-drawn stagecoaches in the 1800s. Then came carrier pigeons, the telegraph, telephones, the Post Office, and overnight delivery.
Media Details
Runtime: 24 minutes 22 seconds
- Topic: History, Science, Social Science
- Subtopic: Ancient History, Community Life, Explorers, Inventions, U.S. History - 1784-1860, U.S. History - 1861-1865, U.S. History - 1866-1900, World History - 1450-1799, World History - 1800-1899
- Grade/Interest Level: 4 - 9
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- Release Year: 2003
- Producer/Distributor: Chip Taylor Communications
- Series: Timeblazers
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This was great! We created a timeline of all the communication modes presented in the video and then used this to kick off a unit on learning to use email with elementary students.