Subject: Social Studies
Lesson Length: 40 - 45 mins
Topic: Industrial Revolution
Grade Level: 4
Standards / Framework:
Brief Description: Students will explore different inventions and innovations during the Industrial Revolution and the role these inventions had in the United States.
Know Before You Start: Students should have an understanding of the events leading up to the Industrial Revolution in America.
Hook:
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Have students brainstorm technology they can’t live without.
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Discuss technology.
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Is technology good or bad?
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What do you consider technology?
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Why do people invent things?
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- Explain that tools and resources as simple as a pencil or a light switch was the newest technology at a different period in time.
Activity:
- Introduce the following vocabulary:
- innovation
- invention
- technology
- Industrial Revolution
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Have students research an invention that was developed during the Industrial Revolution.
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Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a three-panel comic about the invention.
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Panel 1: What is it and what is the purpose of the invention?
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Panel 2: Who invented it and why did they invent it?
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Panel 3: What impact, e.g., economically, politically, and/or culturally did the invention have on the United States during the Industrial Revolution?
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Closure:
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Display students’ completed comics.
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Have students decide what current technology evolved from these inventions from the Industrial Revolution.
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
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Have students create a fourth panel in the comic, or a separate comic, inventing something of their own that would help them today.
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Provide sentence frames as needed.
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Have a list of inventions from which to choose.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
Suggested Content Packs:
Make a comic about the World of the Future
Make a comic about The Laboratory
Make a comic about the Farm
