Today we began with a quick presentation by me on the inventions listed on handout #6. You definitely should know the inventors of those inventions as well as a little about the invention's importance to industrialization.
Next we spent about 15 minutes reading handout #8 entitled "Growth in the North". This reading explains how industrialization began to take hold in America. You should pay close attention to the things that helped America begin to industrialize. On handout #9 there is a list of nine items and on handout #9 you should explain each one's role in helping industrialization in America.
Lastly, you began a poster project looking at three inventions of the industrial era. You can select any three inventions that you want but you should select one farming invention, one business invention and one transportation invention. If you want to study an invention not on the list on handout #6 that is ok as long as it fits into one of the above three categories. You should research the three inventions finding descriptive information and also information about the effects of the invention. You finished product will be a poster that has three columns. One column for the invention name, one column for the descriptive information on the invention and one column with the effects of the invention. See handout #7 for written directions. This poster is due on Wednesday.
Still one more day to take advantage of the bonus points for doing what was described in the previous post.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
January 29, 2010
Well, first week done and it has been a pleasure to get to know all of you. June is right around the corner although it seems pretty far off right now. We have pushed hard to learn the states and capitols and if you still haven't done well on either quiz you can always make them up next week. You also have turned in a U.S. Physical Map where you have located natural geographic features in the U.S.
Today we started our learning in the theme of Industrialization. You should have completed the reading assignment for today in which you must read pages 436-440 and summarize the individual sections. This section is about the beginnings of Industrialization and important technology. Today you received the 1st Industrialization notebook packet and we worked on handouts #5 and #6. On handout #5 we discussed the definition of "revolution" which is major change in society and also "industrialization" which is a turn to manufacturing of making things. The Industrial Revolution in America was a turn to manufacturing in our country. Also on handout #5, we discussed three areas of specific change in America: 1) subsistence farming to mass production growing; 2) single craftsmen/artisans to the factory system; and 3) slow, unreliable transportation to the ability to move goods quickly.
On handout #6 we used our textbooks to find the inventors of the important industrial inventions listed on #6. We will do more with these inventions on Monday.
Bonus Points opportunity (25pts) - Give me another important industrial invention (and inventor) that is NOT described in either textbook.
Today we started our learning in the theme of Industrialization. You should have completed the reading assignment for today in which you must read pages 436-440 and summarize the individual sections. This section is about the beginnings of Industrialization and important technology. Today you received the 1st Industrialization notebook packet and we worked on handouts #5 and #6. On handout #5 we discussed the definition of "revolution" which is major change in society and also "industrialization" which is a turn to manufacturing of making things. The Industrial Revolution in America was a turn to manufacturing in our country. Also on handout #5, we discussed three areas of specific change in America: 1) subsistence farming to mass production growing; 2) single craftsmen/artisans to the factory system; and 3) slow, unreliable transportation to the ability to move goods quickly.
On handout #6 we used our textbooks to find the inventors of the important industrial inventions listed on #6. We will do more with these inventions on Monday.
Bonus Points opportunity (25pts) - Give me another important industrial invention (and inventor) that is NOT described in either textbook.
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