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3.7 After reading a biography of a person from Massachusetts in one of the following categories, summarize the person's life and achievements.
Famous People of Massachusetts: A WebQuest for Third Grade

Click on each person to read about their life and accomplishments.

**Science and Technology **
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 * Alexander Graham Bell. For more, see More About Bell from the //American Experience// on PBS.
 * [[image:Multimedia.png]]Click here to watch a reenactment of the first phone call
 * Nathaniel Bowditch
 * Click here for an amazon link to the book "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
 * Robert Goddard
 * [[image:Multimedia.png]]Click here to watch archival footage of the first rocket launch
 * John Hayes Hammond
 * Edwin Land
 * [[image:Multimedia.png]]Click here to watch a video on one of the first Polaroids
 * Samuel Morse
 * [[image:lessonplan.jpg width="80" height="61"]]Click here for a lesson plan on Morse Code
 * [[image:Multimedia.png]]Click here to see and hear the Morse Code alphabet

**The Arts**
Read her book //Little Women// here. For more including a YouTube video, see About Dickinson's Writings: An Introduction from the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts.
 * Henry Adams
 * [[image:Multimedia.png]]Click here for a variety of videos on Adams
 *  [[image:Rotating_globe-small.gif link="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p12.html"]] Phillis Wheatley
 * Click here to read some of Wheatley's poems
 * [[image:Female_Rose.png]]Louisa May Alcott.[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Wheatley_Poems.jpg width="281" height="225" align="right" caption="Phillis Wheatley, Poems on various subjects, religious and moral, 1773"]]
 * John Singleton Copley
 * [[image:Multimedia.png]]Click here for a tour of Copley's work
 * [[image:Female_Rose.png]]Emily Dickinson


 * Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * Click here to read about Emerson from PBS and a selection of his works
 * Theodor Geisel
 * Click here for information on books, videos, games, and pictures on Geisel
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * [[image:primary_sources.PNG]]Click here for short stories by Hawthorne[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Gramps_at_the_Plate_Rockwell_Print.jpg width="264" height="315" align="right" caption="Illustration by Norman Rockwell."]]
 * Oliver Wendel Holmes
 * Frederick Law Olmsted
 * Click here to learn about the parks Olmsted helped create
 * Norman Rockwell
 * [[image:Multimedia.png]]Click here to look at the photos that inspired some of Rockwell's paintings
 * Henry David Thoreau
 * Click here to learn about Walden Pond
 * Daniel Chester French
 * [[image:Multimedia.png]]Click here to look at works of French

**Business**
William Filene Amos Lawrence Francis Cabot Lowell An Wang

Zenas Crane, founder of Crane and Company who make the paper on which the United States currency is printed.

**Education, journalism, and health**
Clara Barton. Explore here for more information on her efforts for women's rights.

Horace Mann

William Monroe Trotter

**Political leadership**
John Adams John Quincy Adams Susan B. Anthony Click here for a short video on Susan B. Anthony [|Edward Brooke] Benjamin Franklin Click here for a cartoon bio of Franklin John F. Kennedy Paul Revere Click here to hear the poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"