Industrial Revolution Digital Interactive Notebook with Google Drive!

This digital resource features a link to a set of 10 fully-editable Interactive pages on the Industrial Revolution for Google Drive!

Based in part on this traditional Industrial Revolution Interactive Notebook these also feature many brand new pages that can be completed all online with laptops, tablets, or any other device that supports Google Drive!

Topics covered include:

•  Causes of the Industrial Revolution & why it began in England
•  The Factory System
•  Impact of the Industrial Revolution
•  Immigration and the "Melting Pot"
•  Major inventions
•  Comparing Capitalism & Socialism
•  An Industrial Revolution timeline
•  Tenement buildings and urbanization
•  Child labor
•  Vocabulary activities and more!

Students type directly on the pages, insert images, and drag and drop information for a variety of engaging, interactive activities! This is a fantastic way to integrate technology into your classroom and can be completed without printing any paper! Awesome for a 1:1 school or just a trip to the computer lab.

 

An answer key for all 10 pages is included along with 2 pages of teacher directions. All you only need is a Google account and you're ready to go!  You can download this resource here and start using it with your students today!

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Use John Lennon's Imagine to Teach Communism, Capitalism, & Socialism Lesson

This is a fantastic resource that will certainly help your students retain a better grasp on the differences between Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism - along with John Lennon's classic "Imagine"!

Included in this great download is a chart (with a completed answer key), 1-page reading, and detailed instructions on how to implement the resource in a unit on Industrial Revolution or on political/economic philosophies.

The reading very briefly describes an introduction to Communism, Socialism, and Capitalism and how they grew out of the Industrial Revolution. Students use this as a starting point to complete the chart to highlight the basics of each.

You then use John Lennon's "Imagine" to demonstrate the appeal of Communism and Socialism. Some great companion pieces to use with this resource for a complete lesson would be this  Effects of the Industrial Revolution & Communism Lesson Plan or the Industrial Revolution Complete Unit Bundle with everything for a 2-week unit on Industrialization!

You can download this awesome lesson by clicking here!

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Newly Updated Industrial Revolution Unit of Lessons

This fantastic Industrial Revolution lesson bundle includes 22 amazing resources to teach an engaging, student-centered unit on the Industrial Revolution! It includes 4 PowerPoints along with multiple worksheets, Common Core-aligned readings, games and projects that work well for almost any group of students.

The resources cover urbanization, inventors and inventions, working conditions, Robber Barons, Communism, and more!

All of the following individual resources are included:

1. The best-selling Industrial Revolution Child Labor Story with Questions.

2. A creative Industrial Revolution Building Block PowerPoint

3. The Effects of the Industrial Revolution & Communism Lesson Plan - which includes a very engaging PowerPoint, graphic organizer for notes, and worksheet.

4. A fantastic worksheet on the major Inventions of the Industrial Revolution.

5. A brief Andrew Carnegie Biography Worksheet that includes a reading and questions.

6. A creative Gilded Age Dinner Party of Robber Barons & Progressives

7. A great Common Core aligned article and worksheet on Workers During the Industrial Revolution

8. A fun, active Determining Your Horsepower Lesson for the Industrial Revolution lesson to get students up and moving while they learn.

9. The engaging Upton Sinclair's The Jungle Reading, Worksheet, and Interactive Notebook Page to have students interact with an excellent primary source.

 

Plus so much more!

Think of all the time you'll save with 2 whole weeks planned out in full! An easy to follow directions page explains how to implement each resource!

You can download this resource for your classes by clicking here!

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Inventions of the Industrial Revolution Infomercial Group Project

This new fantastic cooperative learning project on major inventions and inventors of the Industrial Revolution will have your students engaged, having fun, and learning!

Included is a directions page on how to present a 1 minute infomercial to the class along with 7 one-page readings on different inventions of the industrial period. In groups students read about their assigned inventor/invention and plan their "infomercial".

As each group presents, other students fill out the included graphic organizer on the 7 inventions and inventors. An answer key for this is included along with a rubric for the infomercial presentation.

My students love this project and always come up with some hilarious pitches for these inventions that they remember the rest of the year! When I used it earlier this year, the students got so into it, we ended up needing a second class period to present all the "infomercials" because the students went into such great detail! It was an amazing couple of class periods!

You can download this lesson for your classes by clicking here!

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Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

I hope every teacher out there has had a great start to the week! I came in to work this morning and our AP had an amazing breakfast spread out for us in the workroom! Definitely makes for a great start on a Monday. 

As a thank you to all the teachers who have followed me here, on Facebook, Twitter, and on TpT, I created a Flash Freebie of my #1 Best Selling Item! 

This amazing true story of child labor during the Industrial Revolution is normally $1.99 but will be free through noon today! It tells the short, gripping story of a 10-year-old girl who worked in a factory during the Industrial Revolution and how she met a grim fate due to the factory's horrible working conditions. Be sure to head over to my store and download it today! After 12 pm today it will go back to its regular price. 

However, starting tomorrow through Wednesday ALL products in my store will be discounted 20% PLUS you can use the TpT Discount Code TAD13 for an additional 10% off!

Thank you teachers for all that you do!!

Turning Paper Boxes into Picket Signs - Strikes & Labor Lesson Plan

In this creative cooperative learning activity, students create picket signs from old paper boxes that tell the story of some of the most famous labor clashes in American History.

Included are 7 one-page stories on each of the following: The Homestead Strike, Haymarket Affair,Pullman Strike, Ludlow Massacre, Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Flint Sit-Down Strike, and Memorial Day Massacre.

In groups, students then complete the reading and create a picket sign that tells the story of that strike and present them to the class:

  

As groups present, a Venn Diagram helps students organize similarities and differences between the different strikes:

Lastly, students complete a set of comprehension questions. A rubric for the presentation is included as well as an page describing the procedures in detail and pictures of completed examples.

This can be downloaded from this link and is a very fun activity that your student will remember and enjoy!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Major-American-Strikes-Labor-Issues-Picket-Signs-Lesson

The Effects of the Industrial Revolution & Communism

Our latest interactive lesson for World History covers the lasting effects of the Industrial Revolution. I've always had an easy time teaching how it starts and the major inventions, but the effects of the revolution are what probably most important for students to learn because they changed so much about the world.

This lesson available for download features a visually striking powerpoint that covers the major effects of the Industrial Revolution. Rather than simply copying the notes, students must analyze whether each effect was positive or negative and list it in the correct category:

While some such as "improved education" are simple, others like "population increase" lead to excellent class discussions as students weigh the pros and cons. Each slide features a captivating visual representation of the category that will surely benefit your visual learners:

The second half of the powerpoint compares capitalism & communism as a response to the effects. Similarly, students place characteristics such as "redistribution of wealth" under the matching philosophy.

The lesson includes a graphic organizer on which students complete the notes as well as a culminating worksheet. The worksheet is based off of the notes and can be completes without any textbook. Both Word and PDF files of the worksheets are included for your convenience along with the powerpoint from here.

Hope you can find this lesson useful in your class!