Lesson Title: Inventions
Topic/Focus Area: Inventions of Industrial Revolution

Lesson Overview

Students will search the internet on specific inventions or inventers. After completing their seach students will create an invention of their own and present their invention in 10-15 slide PowerPoint presentation.

Subject : History-Social Science
Grade : Ten
Strand : World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World

Students in grade ten study major turning points that shaped the modern world, from the late eighteenth century through the present, including the cause and course of the two world wars. They trace the rise of democratic ideas and develop an understanding of the historical roots of current world issues, especially as they pertain to international relations. They extrapolate from the American experience that democratic ideals are often achieved at a high price, remain vulnerable, and are not practiced everywhere in the world. Students develop an understanding of current world issues and relate them to their historical, geographic, political, economic, and cultural contexts. Students con-sider multiple accounts of events in order to understand international relations from a variety of perspectives.


Substrand 10.3 : Students analyze the effects of the Industrial Revolution in England, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States.

 

 

Standard:

10.3.2

Examine how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change (e.g., the inventions and discoveries of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison).

 

Student Learning Objectives

• Students will take a pretest to see what prior knowledge they have about inventors and their inventions.
• Students will be able to search the internet to investigate the impacts of inventors and inventions during the Industrial Revolution.
• Students will be able to generate a powerpoint presentation on a the invention they have created.

Activities

1. Students will take a pre-test on inventors and their inventions during the Industrial Revolution.
2. Students will search the internet on specific inventors and their inventions during the Industrial Revolution.
3. Students will complete a test on the Impact of Inventors/Inventions of the Industrial Revolution.
4. Students will be instructed on how to use Microsoft powerpoint to create the powerpoint presentation.
5. Students will be allowed to get into groups of 4 to complete a powerpoint presentation that show the invention they have created.
6. Student groups will complete a powerpiont presentation on the invention they have created.

Resources

File Attachments

Industrial Revolution Exam
  — Chapter22WHistoryTest.doc   (35.0 KB)

Pre-Test Inventions
  — InventionsPreTestCTAP-TWT.doc   (19.5 KB)

Invention Internet Search Worksheet
  — Invention-InternetSearch.xls   (16.0 KB)

Invention PowerPoint Presentation Description Sheet
  — World HistoryPowerPoint-InternetSearchSheet.doc   (27.5 KB)

Students will complete a pre-test on the Inventor/Inventions of the Industrial Revolution.

Students will complete a worksheet on the Inventors/inventions of the Industrial Revolution by searching the internet.

Students will be able to complete a post-test on the impact of inventors/inventions during the Industrial Revolution.

Students will complete a powerpoint presentation in groups on a specific invention that they would like to create.

This lesson is a work in progress. I believe that this lesson will teach the students skills on the use of the internet and powerpoint, while learning the impacts of inventors/inventions of the Industrial Revolution. I feel that this lesson will allow the students to use they imagination to create a invention they they would like to see in the future. Since this is the first time I will be completing this project, the student will be allowed to take existing inventions and make modifications.