Subject: Social Studies
Lesson Length: 40 - 45 mins
Topic: Industrial Revolution
Brief Description: Students will explore different inventions and innovations during the Industrialization era and the role of these inventions in their state and/or United States.
Know Before You Start: Students should have a good grasp of the events leading up to the Industrial Revolution in America. Students should be able to define words such as: innovation, invention, technology, and industrial revolution.
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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Point out that tools and resources as simple as a pencil or turning on a light switch was the newest technology during different time periods.
Activity:
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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 showing who invented the invention and demonstrating the purpose and impact of 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 state and/or United States during the Industrialization Era?
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Closure:
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Display students’ finished comics.
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Have students decide what current technology evolved from, these specific inventions from the Industrialization Era.
Differentiation:
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Enrichment Option: 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 for student comics.
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Allow students to use speech-to-text feature as needed.
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Have a list of inventions for students to choose from.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
Suggested Content Packs:
World of the Future
The Laboratory
