McCormick, Anita Louise

This title will help readers learn how to select the best digital portfolio for their needs and know what to include so their accomplishments will truly stand out.

Explores ten compelling art projects students can work on with friends at local makerspaces. 3D printers, graphic computer programs, creative mobile apps, traditional arts and crafts supplies.

In less than two hundred years, the United States changed from a rural, agricultural society into an industrial world power. Author Anita Louise McCormick explores the inventions, ideas, and innovators who helped bring the Industrial Revolution from its roots in Great Britain to America.

Gives a short history of radio and explores the many options available for beginning short wave radio listeners.

Traces the history of the Industrial Revolution from its roots in eighteenth-century England, through its beginnings in the United States, to its decline in the twentieth-century.

An illustrated history of the Pony Express that describes its origins, its heyday and its demise; also includes a time line, a bibliography, and a list of related Internet sites.

Discusses the earth's wetlands, how they are disappearing, and what can be done to conserve them.

Examines the early history of telecommunications, discussing the work of Samuel Morse, Alexander Graham Bell, and other inventors who contributed to the efforts to create the telegraph and telephone.