Enter this Library of Congress site, and you will be rewarded by a wealth of information on Bell, his inventions, and his life. This is a simple explanation of how the traditional phone works. This site will also connect you to a history site. This site presents other important facets of his interesting career. In this interactive activity, students read about Bell and can use BrainSpin to do activities about the Internet, fiber optics, or the lack of new phone numbers.
Students view a movie about the telephone and then take an online quiz.
From this activity the students can also explore sound and from that site view a movie. This page provides a number of activities that the teacher can print out and copy. Activities are grouped for different grades. Six experiments developed by Bell for children are also included on this site. A large number of photographs showing telephones manufactured between 1878 and 1983 are grouped at this site.