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Life Skills: Time Frame:
15 class periods that run 45 minutes each. Group Size:
Large Groups
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Summary:
The following are the culminating projects and their criteria and deadlines which the students chose from to demonstrate their understanding of the four instructional areas of the industrial revolution.
Materials:
See Bibliography for resources.
Background For Teachers:
The industrial revolution was divided into four content areas: inventions, industralization, urbanization, and immigrantion. The students were given instruction and completed activities in each content area so they had a solid background understanding of the industrial revolution.
Intended Learning Outcomes:
The students will be able to analyze how the historical past of the Industrial Revolution influences the present. They will be able to interpret the effects of the Industrial Revolution in view of the geographical features and resources. Instructional Procedures:
After completing instruction and activities about the industrial revolution, each student selected one of the following five projects to demonstrate their understanding. The students worked on the projects with periodic deadlines to ensure progress was being made. Each project utilized the Big 6 research steps.
Research Paper:
1. Submit a topic for pre-approval
2. Research your topic, using multiple sources, outline what
you will cover, write a rough draft, and polish a final draft using citations
and a bibliography.
Patriotic Symbol and Poetry: Research three countries and how their
patriotic symbols originated. Then create a symbol and poem representing
a group or location you feel a loyalty towards.
Scrapbook: Create a scrapbook of your ancestors who immigrated to
America. Interview four people (relatives) about your ancestor's immigration,
complete a pedigree chart showing your relationship to your chosen ancestors,
write a biographical sketch of the four ancestors detailing the reason
for their immigration, their trials and their rewards. Include pictures.
This can be completed as a book, a video tape, or a hyperstudio presentation.
Explain how you are like your ancestors, how you are different and what
you gained from the project in a two page paper.
Time Line: Research twenty dates important to the industrial revolution,
write a statement indicating the importance of each date, create a pictorial
representation for each event, organize your information in a linear, chronological
time-line format, and write a paper for three of the most important events.
Create an Invention: Identify a need for an invention, draft a scale
drawing, build a working model and explain in writing the future purpose
for your invention. Demonstrate your invention for two people and have
them respond to a questionnaire.
Extensions:
These project guides can be adapted to any curriculum content area. Also the Open House/Social Studies Fair can be used as an annual event to culminate projects in any area.
Assessment Plan:
Completion of the projects with 100 participation. Display the project at a Social Studies Fair and have parents respond to a survey which will measure their response to the projects.
Bibliography:
Freedman, Russell Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor (Clarion Books, 1994)
Holland, Ruth Mill Child: The Story of Child Labor in America (Crowell-Collier, 1970)
Kalman, Bobbie Early City Life (Crabtree, 1983)
Kalman, Bobbie Early Village Life (Crabtree, 1981)
Kalman, Bobbie Early Settler Children (Crabtree, 1982)
Beekman, Dan Forest, Village, Town, City (Crowell, 1980)
Bender, Lionel Invention (Knopf, 1991)
Caney, Steven Invention Book (Workman, 1985)
Macaulay, David The Way Things Work (Houghton Mifflin, 1988)
Murphy, Jim Weird & Wacky Inventions (Crown, 1978)
Murphy, Jim Across America on an Emigrant Train (Clarion, 1993)
Fisher, Leonard Everett Ellis Island: Gateway to the New World (Holiday House, 1986)
Freedman, Russell Immigrant Kids (Dutton, 1980)
Sandler, Martin Immigrants (Publisher, 1995)
Eyewitness History of the World: The Essential Multimedia Reference Guide to World History. CD ROM (Dorling Kindersely, 1995)
Inventorlabs Technology: Experience the Thrill of Hands-on Discovery. CD ROM (Houghton Mifflin Interactive, 1997)
The Way Things Work. CD ROM (Dorling Kindersley Multimedia, 1884)
The World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia. CD ROM (World Book, 1996)
The Industrial Revolution. VIDEO (Clearview, 1985)
Information Literacy Across the Curriculum. VIDEO (Utah State Department of Educati, 1997)
Sweet Land of Liberty: Celebrate American. VIDEO (Eastman Kodak, 1986) Author:
SHIRLENE BARRUS
Created Date :
Jun 10 1998 12:47 PM
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