Industrial Revolution Document Based Activity

Industrial Revolution Introductory/Overview of Unit Lesson
Aim: What was the Industrial Revolution? How did the Industrial Revolution impact people and societies during the 1700-1900s?
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Included in this resource:
• Title page
• Industrial Revolution Introduction/Overview Lesson Plan
• Industrial Revolution colorful leveled documents with scaffolding questions; includes primary source documents
• Application/Closing/Higher Order thinking question

Students will research the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution and the impact of technology on people and societies; agrarian to industrial way of life; Agrarian and Vaccination revolutions; factors of production: land, labor, capital; inventions spur industrialization: flying shuttle, steam engine, railroad; effects of child labor primary source document; emergence of social classes primary source document

Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary
Differentiation: scaffolded questions based on documents, cooperative (may work in collaborative groups according to teacher's discretion; document pass only works in 5 groups)

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