A way to look at Eureka with the monthly principles

...and just put "etc" after everything

Life: very internal, self-examination, think small! microscope, patterns, math and science basics, scientific method, puzzles, fractals, pascal's triangle, different forms of measurement (although this can also fit in "society" well)...

Liberty: creativity, imagination, string theory, number theory, space...

Work/Property: study the character of a scientist like Edison who sacrificed and worked hard (most of them did!), buildings, stability, earthquakes, gardening, other things that affect or relate to our property...

Creator: study of theorems and laws, like evolution, gravity, geometry, study the wonder of God's creation :)...

Service-Oriented leadership: scientists/mathematicians motivated by desire to help, like Pasteur and other microbiologists or physicians,...

Society: Macro-patterns, architectural principles (bridges), engineering, how things relate, big picture stuff, plants, ecology, animals, etc., relationships between concepts, cryptography...

Citizenship: Cause and effect,  motion, force, mathematicians/scientists that changed their world for the good (so many!)

As you brainstorm which scientists/mathematicians/concepts you want to use for the year, it just might make for more connections if you can find a month from above where they might fit a little better.  Just thinkin' out loud...

Of course, some topics may fit better into different monthly themes, according to some people, so go with it! :)

Don't forget the post that has lists of mathematicians, scientists, and concepts!  Please add your own to it :).  If we all do a little, then it will be amazing!

Synergy of the Mind project--examples

Wow!  Check out this amazing site!  Talk about capturing the vision of exposing our children to great ideas in a joyful, hands on way!

Khan Academy Discovery Lab

They have some great ideas for synergy of the mind projects!  Their enthusiasm is contagious and inspiring. I was especially thinking of our young men.  Think of what they would come up with when they had these great ideas thrown at them :).

Periodic Table

Videos about each element

From Suzanne:
"I have a thing for periodic tables!  That doesn't mean I know them very well, I just really like them. :)

Here's a cool one.  If you mouse over an element, it'll show you a bigger pic, give you a description, and tell you some facts.

http://periodictable.com/

Check out Mendelevium and Americium.  Fun stuff!"

Mystery of the Periodic Table [Kindle Edition]

Benjamin Wiker (Author), Jeanne Bendick (Illustrator)

Leads the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elements of the Periodic Table as we know them today. He introduces the young reader to people like Von Helmont, Boyle, Stahl, Priestly, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and many others, all incredibly diverse in personality and approach, who have laid the groundwork for a search that is still unfolding to this day. The first part of Wiker's witty and solidly instructive presentation is most suitable to middle school age, while the later chapters are designed for ages 12-13 and up, with a final chapter somewhat more advanced.

Scientists, Mathematicians and Eureka books

This page is continually being updated.  PLEASE add to it, either as an author or in the reply section to benefit other groups.
 
Books and Websites for finding people to study:
-Mathematicians are People, too Vol. 1 and 2
-The Math Book
-Go Figure!
-Fermat's Enigma
-Engineers: http://heritage.imeche.org/peopleevents
-Dr. Posin's Giants: out of print but amazing.

-"Great Scientists" from the DK Eyewitness Books series: It is more just a quick overview of each scientist with some of their more notable achievements. It only includes 30 scientists from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking and each get a two page spread. So it isn't complete but I thought it would be easy to give a quick overview, take only about 5 minutes to read everything on the two pages. But it would create a common groundwork for everyone to build on. It also has a nice variation of scientists - ie biology, chemistry, physics focuses. 

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Mathematicians/Scientists/Concepts by "era"

Ancient World (beginning-300 ad)
Aristotle
Thales
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Hypatia
Hebrew (can be used any time period, obviously :).)
Euclid (330 bc) geometry

Medieval Times (300 ad-1200 ad)
 -Omar Khayyam, 11^th century Persian mathematician and astronomer: http://www.okonlife.com/poems/page3.htm poet, with several great themes, amongst which, God as the potter, choosing one's path...)

(From the Layton Vanguard group)
Watch the following link: Occam's Razor  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XEA3k_QIKo
  -Medieval Translators and Measurements: 
      Boethius http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Boethius.html
      Adelard of Bath http://www.adelard.com/about/original_adelard.html
      Gherard of Cremona http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gherard.html 
      Thomas Bradwardine  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Bradwardine.html
  The Journey of Al & Gebra to the Land of Algebra
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Bendick
Fascinating Fibonacci's by Trudi Hammel Garland  (Leonard of Pisa or Fibonacci-Italy 1180)  
Bhaskara (1114 a.d.) first systematic explanation of arabic figures
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Early Modern Times (1300-1750) Age of Exploration
-Application of the compass in the western world and beginning of study of electromagnetism
-Madhava of Sangmagrama: (1340 India)  pi and infinite series; founder of school of astronomy and mathematics
-Newton (1642 England) motion, gravitation, light, color, calculus (an interesting contrasting classic to this might be "Gulliver's Travels," which is something of a satire on Newton's "Principia"
-Napier (1550 Scotland)-trigonometry, logarithms, "mathemagician" magic :)
-Galileo (1564 Italy) astronomer; scientific method
-Pi (The Math Book, pg 110) fun to do in March with Pi Day, 3/14
-Pascal (1623 France) religious, mathematics, physics and science; pascal's triangle
-Euler (1707 Swiss) geometry, analysis (he was blind--amazing mental math!), topology (konigsburg bridge dilemma)
-Gerolamo Cardano (Italian 1501): mathematician, physician, astrologer; negative/imaginary numbers; probability
-René Descartes (1596 France)-mathematical connections, links in nature, geometry 
-Fermat- (1601 France) layer, hobby of mathematics, geometry, proof, games, probability "Fermat's Enigma"
-Leeuwenhoek (1632 Dutch) lens maker, made first microscope, discovered microbes, persisted to work on his passion while employed in other occupations (De Kruif's "Microbe Hunters")
-Spallanzani (1729 Italy)-asked lots of questions, examined things, patiently proved that the concept of "spontaneous generation" was false, "Spallanzani was triumphant, but then he did the curious thing that only born scientists ever do--he tried to beat his own idea, his darling theory--by experiments he honestly and shrewdly planned to defeat himself.  That is science!  That is the strange self-forgetting spirit of a few rare men, those curious men to whom truth is more dear than their own cherished whims and wishes." (ibid, pg 37) Another great quote, "I have proved that there is a law and order int he science of animals, just as there is in the working of the stars." (pg 42) He went on expeditions collecting natural specimen.
-Treviso Arithmetic: European arithmetic text that discusses economics, shows need for a common economic denominator in coinage, currency, interest, and measurements. (The Math Book pg 108)
-Golden Ratio: so cool!
-Copernicus  
-1714 Faranheit and the mercury thermometer 
-"The Longitude Prize" a book about inventors and sea-navigation/clocks
-Mendeleyev:

--Mystery of the Periodic Table [Kindle Edition]

Benjamin Wiker (Author), Jeanne Bendick (Illustrator)

Leads the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elements of the Periodic Table as we know them today. He introduces the young reader to people like Von Helmont, Boyle, Stahl, Priestly, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and many others, all incredibly diverse in personality and approach, who have laid the groundwork for a search that is still unfolding to this day. The first part of Wiker's witty and solidly instructive presentation is most suitable to middle school age, while the later chapters are designed for ages 12-13 and up, with a final chapter somewhat more advanced.


1750-1900
-Lagrange (1736-France)

-Maria Agnesi (1718- Italy) abstract mathematics, made calculus textbook, dedicated to service to others--so much that it superceded her love of mathematics, importance of women getting an education, 

-Benjamin Banneker (1731 African-American mathematician)-compiled almanacs, did surveying (great one to go with George Washington, also a surveyor)

-Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough

-Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel. Later, he accepted a professorship at Harvard University in the United States.

-Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt ( listen (help·info); September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time in a manner generally considered to be a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular).

-Faraday (1831)
-Kepler (See Whitehead's "Intro to Mathematics" page 28-30)
-Galvani (1780) and Volta (1792) study of electricity

-Linnaeus-Naturalist $40 to education himself

-Hugh Miller: apprentice to stone mason--great geologist

-George Stevenson: civil engineer: coal miner

-James Watt: Sickly

 



1900-present
Biographies from "Brave Companions" by McCullough:
"Long-Distance Vision" is about the experiences and literary works of several early aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and Beryl Markham.
"Steam Road to El Dorado" is about the construction of the original Panama Railway in the 1850s.
"The Builders" concerns the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1870s, and particularly the life of engineer John A. Roebling and his son, Washington Roebling.
"The Treasure from the Carpentry Shop" concerns the rediscovery of the original plans for the Brooklyn Bridge in 1969.
"The Lonely War of a Good Angry Man", written in 1969, concerns the destructive environmental impact of strip mining in eastern Kentucky, and profiles Harry M. Caudill, local author and anti-strip mining political activist.
"Miriam Rothschild" is about the English zoologist and entomologist Miriam Rothschild.

BOOKS not mentioned above:
"String, Straight Edge and Shadow"
 "Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe"
"Go Figure!" (read it all carefully!)
 "Mathematicians are People, too" vol. 1 and 2
Free Choice (and any other approved reading—through mentor)
"The Phantom Tollbooth"
"Archimedes Door of Science"
"My Side of the Mountain"
 The Warlord series (counts as 1): do the expts.
"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
"Brave Companions" by McCullough
"Microbe Hunters"
"Life of Fred" (any in series)
"Men and Mathematics" by Bell
 "Elegant Universe"-video
"Flatland" "Fermat's Enigma"
"Evolution: is it science or faith?"
 "On Numbers" by Asimov
"Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Latham
"The Disappearing Spoon"
"Time"
"Introduction to Mathematics" by Whitehead
"Number Devil"
 "Cosmos"--video...
"All mimzy were the borrogoves"
"A Swiftly tilting planet"
"Hatchet"
 "Scientific Discoveries that Strengthen Faith"
Complete any Saxon Math book
"Donald Duck in Mathematic land"
"E=mc2" video (see Jordan for details)
"The Number Devil"
"The Longitude Prize"
"Microbe Hunter"
"The Mystery of the Periodic Table"

Sample Long-term Synergy of the Mind project

                                                            JUDGING SHEET    

The Problem

Your team is to create a minimum of three live characters.  These must be Hero, Sidekick, and a distressed person.  Your solution to the problem is to be developed around this scenario; Hero and Sidekick are to stand in the Neighborhood.  Each travels with a suitcase.  They open their suitcases, one of both of which contains the parts to a vehicle.  The vehicle will then be assembled.  The person in distress may not assist in the vehicle’s assembly.  Hero and/or Sidekick will then leave the Neighborhood on the vehicle and proceed to relieve a person in distress, stop a crime, rescue a lost kitten, and do two good deeds of the team’s choosing.  The five tasks may be completed in any order.  Then the vehicle will be disassembled and replaced in the suitcase(s).  The person relieved from distress may assist in the disassembling of the vehicle.

The Spirit of the Problem is to create a scenario that includes the hero, sidekick, and a distressed person and to design and to construct a vehicle that will fit into one or two suitcases.  The team is to assemble its vehicle, drive it, turn it, stop it, and perform the specified tasks, the disassemble the vehicle.

The Competition

1. The team, suitcases, and props, etc. will be in the staging area.  When time begins it will be the team’s responsibility to complete the tasks.

2. Hero and sidekick will go to the neighborhood with their suitcases.

3. The vehicle will be assembled in the neighborhood.

4. When the tasks are completed, the vehicle will be returned to the neighborhood and will be disassembled.

5. If time runs out, the team must stop.

Scoring

1. The creativity of the vehicle 1 to 50 points                                                                          __________

2. The creativity of the characters and the scenario 1 to 25 points                                           __________

3. The appearance of the vehicle 1 to 15 points                                                                        __________

4. The creativity of the 1^st good deed, 1 to 15 points (if completed)                                        __________

5. The creativity of the 2^nd good deed, 1 to 15 points (if completed)                                       __________

6. The creativity of the distress and the relief of the distressed person. (1 to 15 points)          __________

7. The creativity of the hero and sidekick stopping a crime 1 to 15 points                              __________

8. The creativity of rescuing the lost kitten 1 to 10 points                                                        __________

9. Returning the kitten to the neighborhood 5 points                                                               __________

10. Under the cost limit; lower cost = higher score (Under $50= +5 points, under $40= +10 points, under $30=+15 points.)                                                                                                                        __________

Penalties

1. Any part(s) of the vehicle or task apparatus not inside the suitcase(s) at the start, -5 to -50 points.

                                                                                                                                                __________

2. Hero or sidekick leaves the vehicle or touches the floor outside the neighborhood (each offense) - 10 points.                                                                                                                                          __________

3. Floor contact points of vehicle go out of bounds (each offense), -10 points                      __________

4. Violation of the spirit of the problem (each offense), -5 to -100                                         __________

5. Outside assistance (each offense) -5 to -100                                                                       __________

6. Unsportsmanlike conduct (each offense) -5 to -25                                                              __________    **The entire vehicle must be contained in one or two closed suitcases. Each suitcase must have outside dimensions not exceeding 23" x 31" x 10" and may be made of any material.**

7. Each suitcase that exceeds any dimension by ½” or less, -25                                               __________   

8.  Each suitcase that exceeds any dimension by ½ “ or more, -100                                        __________

9. Damage to floor or premises, -5 to -100                                                                              __________

10. Distressed person, while being relieved, assists in assembling the vehicle or comes in contact with the floor outside the distressed person’s area, -25 pts                                                                             __________

11. Any vehicular parts outside the neighborhood during assembly or disassembly (each offense, -10 points) maximum= -20                                                                                                                        __________

12. Kitten touches floor between park and neighborhood (each offense), -10 pts.                  __________

13. Over cost limit, -5 to -50 points                                                                                         __________

Style (Elaboration of the problem solution)

1. The appearance of hero, 1-10 points                                                                                  __________

2. The appearance of sidekick, 1-10 points.                                                                            __________

3. Use of special effects, 1-10 points                                                                                      __________

4. Free choice, 1-10 points                                                                                                      __________

5. Overall effect, 1-10 points                                                                                                   __________

Judges name: __________________________                                                         TOTAL           __________

COMMENTS: ________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

                                               

Limitations

1. The time limit for the competition, including set-up, style, and performance, is 10 minutes.

2. The cost limit is $75, with Vanguard Youth providing $50 per team.  ($25 is allowed to be raised through approved methods.) The cost limit does not included new or used suitcases, or suitcases built by the team.  Additional points will be given for less money spent (Under $50= +5 points, under $40= +10 points, under $30=+15 points.)

3. The entire vehicle must be contained in one or two closed suitcases. Each suitcase must have outside dimensions not exceeding 23" x 31" x 10" and may be made of any material.

4. The vehicle must be totally enclosed in the suitcase(s) when the signal to begin is given. Then it must be assembled in the neighborhood, complete the tasks, return to the neighborhood, be disassembled and placed back into the suitcase(s).

5. The suitcase(s) may be part of the vehicle.  However, they must either be suitcases or resemble pieces of luggage.  Some suitcases have built-in wheels.  These wheels may not be used as the vehicle’s wheels.

6. Hero and/or sidekick must ride in or on the vehicle and may not leave the vehicle except in the Neighborhood. If Hero or sidekick touches the floor outside the Neighborhood, it is a penalty.  Hero and sidekick may return to the neighborhood as often as they wish.

7. Only one vehicle may be made.  Only Hero and/or sidekick and the kitten may ride the vehicle.  Hero and Sidekick must complete the tasks.

8. Participants may use any power source except moving the wheels directly by hand or pushing or pulling the vehicle by hand.  Vehicles may not be connected to anything stationary except an electrical supply.

9. The vehicle braking and steering systems may be hand operated.

10. Four/five team members, except the person in distress, may help assemble the vehicle.  All five/six  team members may help to disassemble the vehicle.

11. The vehicle must be assembled and disassembled in the Neighborhood.

12. The team’s interpretation and configuration of the kitten and the nature of the distressed person’s distress are of the team’s choosing.  The kitten may be portrayed by one of the five team members but no other live animals may be used.

13.  The distressed person and the kitten must be in position before their reliefs/rescues take place.  Once in position, the distressed person and the kitten must remain in their areas until relieved or rescued.  After the distressed person is relieved, he or she may leave the designated area and move anywhere.  When the kitten is rescued, it must be kept on the vehicle and must be returned with Hero and/or sidekick to the neighborhood.  This may be done at any time during the vehicle’s run.  The remaining two/three team members bay move in and out of bounds without penalty.

14. The floor contact points (usually wheels) of the vehicle must remain in bounds.

15. All devices or apparatus used to perform the tasks do not have to be returned to the neighborhood, but until they are used they must be carried on or attached to the vehicle or carried by Hero and/or sidekick.

16. During the performance of the tasks, Hero’s and sidekick’s body parts and devices used to perform the tasks may extend across the boundary lines without penalty, but the body parts may not touch the floor.

17. Before time begins, the team must present the judges with a paper containing a brief description of the crime, the two good deeds, the nature of the distress, and the identification of characters.

18. A team member may portray only one character.

19. Tools for vehicle assembly do not have to be contained in the suitcase(s).

Penny market game

penny market game

This game is fabulous at teaching math concepts of commerce, principles of work, and the proper role of government (if "taxes" are used as part of the game).  It is a long game, and is great for a simulation.

List of Childhood of Famous Americans and World Citizens

Christopher Columbus: Young Explorer

Christopher Columbus was born in Italy in 1451. His father was a weaver, but like most young men living near a seaport, Columbus looked to the sea to...

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Leonardo Da Vinci: Young Artist, Writer, and Inventor

Leonardo Da Vinci is best known as the Renaissance painter who created the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. he also made great contributions as a...

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Marie Curie: Young Scientist

Marie Curie was a world-renowned scientist who made many important discoveries, as well as a great teacher and a mother, but her accomplishments...

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Gandhi: Young Nation Builder

The man we remember simply as Gandhi was born Mohandas Gandhi in India in 1869. From an early age he was made keenly aware of the rigid Hindu caste...

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Mother Teresa: Friend to the Poor

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, Mother Teresa grew up in a small war-torn town in Macedonia. The youngest of three children, Mother Teresa was...

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Pope John Paul II: Young Man of the Church

Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on May 18, 1920, in Poland. As a child Karol excelled in school -- especially in religion and literature. He...

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Anne Frank: Young Diarist

In 1933, at the age of four, Anne Frank and her family fled from the Nazis in Germany and sought safe haven in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 1940,...

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Lady Diana, Princess of Wales: Young Royalty

Diana Spencer grew up to be the princess of Wales. But when she was a little girl, she did not dream she would become a princess. When she was still...

Childhood of Famous Americans

  *      Henry Ford: Young Man with Ideas

 *      John Jacob Astor

* John Deere

 * John Smith

 * Patrick Henry

 * Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer

 * Allan Pinkerton: Young Detective

 * Harry Houdini: Young Magician

  * Eugene Field

 * Dan Morgan: Wilderness Boy

 * George Gershwin

 * Lucretia Mott: Girl of Old Nantucket

* Jed Smith: Young Western Explorer

 * John Alden: Young Puritan

 * John Wanamaker: Boy Merchant

 * Luther Burbank: Boy Wizard

 * The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys

 * Osceola Young Seminole Indian

   * Robert Peary: Boy of the North

 * Black Hawk, Young Sauk Warrior

 * John Hancock New England Boy

 * Herbert Hoover Boy Engineer

 * Elias Howe Inventive Boy

* Babe Didrikson: Girl Athlete

 * Jeff Davis: Confederate Boy

 * Cyrus McCormick Farmer Boy

  * Lee DeForest

 * Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer

* George Westinghouse: Young Inventor

  * Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 * John Burrough: Boy of Field and Stream

  * John Fitzgerald Kennedy: America's Youngest         President

 * Rachel Jackson: Tennessee Girl

 * Tom Edison: Boy Inventor

 * Albert Einstein: Young Thinker

 * A. P. Giannini: Boy of San Francisco

  * Will and Charlie Mayo: Boy Doctors

  * Andrew Carnegie: Young Steelmaker

 * Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor

 * George Eastman: Young Photographer

   * Robert Fulton: Boy Craftsman

 * Alec Hamilton: The Little Lion

  * Juliette Low: Girl Scout

  * Noah Webster: Boy of Words

 * Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel

    * Walter Reed: Boy Who Wanted To Know

  * Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator

 * Dwight D. Eisenhower: Young Military Leader

 * Harry S. Truman: Missouri Farm Boy

 * Brigham Young: Covered Wagon Boy

  * David Farragut: Boy Midshipman

  * Douglas MacArthur: Young Protector

 * George Dewey: Vermont Boy

  * Oliver Hazard Perry: Boy of the Sea

   * John Peter Zenger: Young Defender of a Free Press

  * Dan Beard: Boy Scout

  * Frances Willard: Girl Crusader

   * Kate Douglas Wiggin: The Little Schoolteacher

   * John Audubon: Boy Naturalist

   * Mark Twain: Boy of Old Missouri

   * Mary Mapes Dodge: Jolly Girl

    * William Penn: Friendly Boy

  * Dorothea Dix: Girl Reformer

   * Maria Mitchell: Girl Astronomer

  * Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial Patriots

  * Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream

  * James Whitcomb Riley: Young Poet

  * Robert E. Lee: Young Confederate

   * Dolly Madison: Quaker Girl

   * Henry Clay: Young Kentucky Orator

   * John Marshall: Boy of Young America

   * Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's Rights

  * Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall

  * Tom Jefferson: Third President of the United States

   * Woodrow Wilson: Boy President

 * J. Sterling Morton: Arbor Day Boy

   * Robert Goddard: Pioneer Rocket Boy

   * F. W. Woolworth: Five and Ten Boy

  * George Pullman: Young Sleeping Car Builder

    * Katherine Lee Bates: Girl Poet

    * Carl Ben Eielson Young Alaskan Pilot

  * Cecil B. DeMille

   * Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Young Artic Explorer

   * Liliuokalani: Young Hawaiian Queen

  * Gail Borden

 * Bedford Forest: Boy on Horseback

  * Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman

  * James Oglethorpe: Young Defender

  * Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider

   * Nathaniel Greene

    * Pontiac and the Indian Uprising

    * William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe

  * Lotta Crabtree: Gold Rush Girl

 * Lew Wallace

* Matthew Calbraith Perry

* Bird Girl: Sacagawea

   * Pocahontas: Brave Girl

  * Dan Webster: Union Boy

  * Stephen Decatur: Gallant Boy

   * William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy

  * Eli Whitney: Boy Mechanic

    * John Paul Jones: Salt-Water Boy

    * Raphael Semmes: Tidewater Boy

   * Samuel Morse

    * Sequoyah: Young Cherokee Guide

 * Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox

  * John Sevier: Pioneer Boy

  * Abe Lincoln: Frontier Boy

    * Andy Jackson: Boy Soldier

    * Anthony Wayne: Daring Boy

    * Ben Franklin: Boy Printer

    * Booker T. Washington: Ambitious Boy

    * Buffalo Bill: Boy of the Plains

    * Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross

    * Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker

    * Francis Scott Key: Maryland Boy

    * George Carver: Boy Scientist

    * George Custer: Boy of Action

    * George Washington: Young Leader

    * Israel Putnam: Fearless Boy

    * John Fitch: Steamboat Boy

    * Kit Carson: Boy Trapper

    * Molly Pitcher: Girl Patriot

    * Myles Standish: Adventurous Boy

    * Nancy Hanks: Kentucky Girl

    * Nathan Hale: Puritan Boy

    * Paul Revere: Boy of Old Boston

    * P. T. Barnum: Circus Boy

    * Sam Houston: Boy Chiefton

    * Sitting Bull: Dakota Boy

    * Squanto: Young Indian Hunter

    * Tecumseh: Shawnee Boy

    * U. S. Grant: Young Horseman

    * Virginia Dare: Mystery Girl

    * Wilbur and Orville Wright: Boy with Wings

    * Zeb Pike: Boy Traveler

    * Babe Ruth: One of Baseball's Greatest

    * Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion

    * Knute Rockne: Young Athlete

    * Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest

    * Richard Byrd: Boy of the South Pole

    * Will Rogers, Jr.: Young Cowboy

 * Abigail Adams: Girl of Colonial Days

    * Jane Addams: Little Lame Girl

    * Jessie Fremont: Girl of Capitol Hill

    * Julia Ward Howe: Girl of Old New York

    * Louisa Alcott: Girl of Old Boston

    * Martha Washington: America's First First Lady

  * Narcissa Whitman: Pioneer Girl

    * Joel Chandler Harris: Young Storyteller

    * Walter Chrysler: Boy Machinist

 * Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag

    * Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social Justice

    * Franklin Roosevelt: Boy of the Four Freedoms

    * John Philip Sousa: Marching Boy

    * John Quincy Adams: Boy Patriot

    * Aleck Bell: Ingenious Boy

    * DeWitt Clinton

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Connecticut Girl

James Monroe: Good Neighbor Boy

 * Peter Stuyvesant: Boy with Wooden Shoes

* Washington Irving: Boy of Old New York

    * Clyde Beatty: Boy Animal Trainer

    * George Rogers Clark: Boy of the Old Northwest

    * Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph

    * Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass

    * Simon Kenton: Young Trail Blazer

    * Will Clark: Boy in Buckskins

    * William Fargo: Boy Mail Carrier

    * Zack Taylor: Young Rough and Ready

    * Ernie Pyle: Boy From Back Home

    * Ethan Allen

    * James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Boy

    * Jeb Stuart: Boy in the Saddle

    * Jim Bowie: Boy with a Hunting Knife

•    Jim Bridger