Industrial Revolution Early Industry and Inventions

Industrial Revolution Lesson: Early Industry and Inventions in the United States
Aim: How did the Industrial Revolution change America?
FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Included in this resource:
• Cover Page
• Student-centered situational Do Now prediction question
• Early Industry and Inventions Jigsaw Activity:
• Six documents:
◦ Causes of the Industrial Revolution and the Factory System
◦ Slater and Lowell Mills
◦ Interchangeable Parts
◦ The Steamboat
◦ Morse Code
◦ Farming Improvements
• Six sets of questions that correspond to each document
• Early Industry and Inventions corresponding graphic organizer
• Space for the creation of an advertisement promoting an early invention/technique/improvement/place
• Application/Closing/Higher Order Thinking Question
• Answer Key for Teachers

★★★ NOTE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE YOUR STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN THE JIGSAW ACTIVITY. I merely gave the directions in case you would like your students to complete the jigsaw (directions below and included in the product). You can have your students complete the lesson/activity any way you would like.

★ Usually a two-day activity.

Students will analyze the close-reading passages and complete the corresponding scaffolding questions and graphic organizer. They will then create an advertisement promoting a person, place, invention, or improvement during the Industrial Revolution.

Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary, creating arguments with evidence

Differentiation: cooperative {students may work in pairs/groups according to teacher's discretion for graphic organizers}; students argue their opinions and make predictions using relevant examples and details from the lesson and their knowledge of social studies.

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