The Industrial

Revolution

Unit PlanBy: Daniel Ball

Analyze the Learners

The class is a first eight grade class. The are 32 students in the class room.

The gender make up is 19 boys and 13 girls. The racial make up is 72% white,

12% black, and 16% Hispanic.

Main Objective

Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the Industrial Revolution

through class participation, media presentations, group projects, and group

evaluations with 90% competency.

Day One: The Birth of the Future

Students will takes notes for future use during a quick lecture on the time

period that gave rise to the Industrial Revolution.

After the lecture students will watch a Youtube video on the steam engine.

After the video the students will be able to ask the instructor questions.

Students will be placed in their groups for their group projects. (Three

groups; the Luddites, the Capitalists, a Jury.)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVomz8TXrqE

Day Two: An Age of Progress

Students will take notes during a lesson on the spread of Industrialization

from Britain to the rest of the world.

Students will use their notes and google maps to track the spread of

Industrialization and compare pictures of the important cities then and now.

Students will have a few minutes to talk to their groups and start planning

their project.

Day Three: Guiding Lights

Students will take notes during a lesson on the notable inventors and

industrialist of the Industrial Age.

Students will then get on computers to research an important invention

developed during this time period. The student will write a one page paper on

their chosen invention.

Day Four: Day of Debate

Students will use their notes from all previous days and their paper to assist

them during a mock debate between The Luddites and The Capitalists and

the winner will be judged by a Jury.

Day Five: Analyze and Internalize

Students will go over the debate they had the day before. Each of the three

groups have to explain what they did wrong and what they did right.

The students have a short lesson on the after effects of the Industrial

Revolution and are left with a question of who do they think was right in the

real world debate between the Luddites and the Capitalists.

Use of Technology

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVomz8TXrqE

Google Maps: http://www.google.com/earth/

Computers for student research.

Projector and Smart board for lessons.

Work Cited

https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Industrial_Revolu

tion.html

http://www.ushistory.org/us/22a.asp

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/workshop_of_the_world_01.

shtml

http://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blchartindrev.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/child-labor