Lesson 2: Inventions Leading to the Industrial Revolution
Rationale:
This lesson will teach students about the various developments in technology during the late 18th century and early 19th century that led to the American Industrial Revolution, Transportation Revolution, and overall technological advances. Students will research the technology and scientific aspects of their invention to understand how it worked and its purpose. Students will understand how their researched inventions were able to impact certain individual’s lives and how they ultimately affected or changed society. Students will closely investigate individual inventions to understand how they impacted the current society and future societies.
Curriculum Frameworks:
· Massachusetts Frameworks: USI.27 Explain the importance of the Transportation Revolution of the 19th century (the building of canals, roads, bridges, turnpikes, steamboats, and railroads), including the stimulus it provided to the growth of a market economy. (H, E)
· NCSS Theme: Science, Technology, and Society-“This theme explores how developments in science and technology impact individuals, groups, institutions, and societies. Wants and needs stimulate advances in science and technology. An understanding of science and technology in their social contexts allows learners to question and analyze the impact of science and technology on society, both in the past and the present, as well as to evaluate what the future may bring in these areas.”
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to explain the significance of inventions that led to the Transportation Revolution and Industrial Revolution. Students will be able to explain the significance of the invention in terms of its advances in science & technology, as well as its affects on individual’s lives and the greater society.
Teaching Methods: Research
Procedure:
1. Students will be asked to think of a piece of technology or invention that they currently use in their everyday life. Students will take three minutes to free write about the invention they thought of. They will be instructed to answer any of the following questions:
· What is an invention or piece of technology that is a part of your everyday life?
· How has this invention changed your life? (Think about yourself personally, aspects of your social life, and society as a greater whole)
· How was your life different before you used this invention or piece of technology?
· How will this affect your future life?
· Do you think this will change or lead to future inventions? How?
2. Students will take a few minutes to Think-Pair-Share with the person sitting next to them about their responses.
3. Students will be asked to share out to the rest of the class about their responses and discussions. As a class, we will discuss how technology can both improve and complicate our lives.
4. I will explain how similarly, inventions and advances in technology greatly changed the lives of those in America during the late 1700s and early 1800s.
5. A set of written instructions will be handed out to the students. I will instruct students that they will use the remaining class time to research one of the inventions listed. Based off of their research, students will create an ad for their researched invention.
6. Students will use their textbooks along with the school laptops to complete their research for the remainder of class.
Assessment:
To be completed at home, students will create an ad for their researched invention. A series of guidelines will also be distributed for students to follow. This will be a formative assessment.
Materials:
Paper for their ads, school laptops, textbooks, markers, colored pencils, assignment, and guidelines.
This lesson will teach students about the various developments in technology during the late 18th century and early 19th century that led to the American Industrial Revolution, Transportation Revolution, and overall technological advances. Students will research the technology and scientific aspects of their invention to understand how it worked and its purpose. Students will understand how their researched inventions were able to impact certain individual’s lives and how they ultimately affected or changed society. Students will closely investigate individual inventions to understand how they impacted the current society and future societies.
Curriculum Frameworks:
· Massachusetts Frameworks: USI.27 Explain the importance of the Transportation Revolution of the 19th century (the building of canals, roads, bridges, turnpikes, steamboats, and railroads), including the stimulus it provided to the growth of a market economy. (H, E)
· NCSS Theme: Science, Technology, and Society-“This theme explores how developments in science and technology impact individuals, groups, institutions, and societies. Wants and needs stimulate advances in science and technology. An understanding of science and technology in their social contexts allows learners to question and analyze the impact of science and technology on society, both in the past and the present, as well as to evaluate what the future may bring in these areas.”
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to explain the significance of inventions that led to the Transportation Revolution and Industrial Revolution. Students will be able to explain the significance of the invention in terms of its advances in science & technology, as well as its affects on individual’s lives and the greater society.
Teaching Methods: Research
Procedure:
1. Students will be asked to think of a piece of technology or invention that they currently use in their everyday life. Students will take three minutes to free write about the invention they thought of. They will be instructed to answer any of the following questions:
· What is an invention or piece of technology that is a part of your everyday life?
· How has this invention changed your life? (Think about yourself personally, aspects of your social life, and society as a greater whole)
· How was your life different before you used this invention or piece of technology?
· How will this affect your future life?
· Do you think this will change or lead to future inventions? How?
2. Students will take a few minutes to Think-Pair-Share with the person sitting next to them about their responses.
3. Students will be asked to share out to the rest of the class about their responses and discussions. As a class, we will discuss how technology can both improve and complicate our lives.
4. I will explain how similarly, inventions and advances in technology greatly changed the lives of those in America during the late 1700s and early 1800s.
5. A set of written instructions will be handed out to the students. I will instruct students that they will use the remaining class time to research one of the inventions listed. Based off of their research, students will create an ad for their researched invention.
6. Students will use their textbooks along with the school laptops to complete their research for the remainder of class.
Assessment:
To be completed at home, students will create an ad for their researched invention. A series of guidelines will also be distributed for students to follow. This will be a formative assessment.
Materials:
Paper for their ads, school laptops, textbooks, markers, colored pencils, assignment, and guidelines.