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Here are the teacher pack items for Industrial Revolution:
Overview In this experience, students first explore the importance of interchangeable parts. Then, they learn how the Industrial Revolution changed factory work and working conditions. Next, they examine the growth of cities and compare life in the Northern states before and after the Industrial Revolution. Finally, they learn about free enterprise and the factory system and create a chart showing positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. The Teacher Pack includes a link to a video about the cotton gin and its role in the growth of slavery. If you did not play the video during the “Southern Plantations” experience, you may choose to do so during this lesson. The video connects the two experiences and can help students understand how industrial growth in the North was connected to the growth of cotton and slavery in the South. Students learned about the Lowell mill girls in the previous experience. The Student Pack contains a link to an optional article about them and how mill work changed their lives. If you have access to leveled readers that include a biography of Eli Whitney or stories about life in a tenement, assign them to students in parallel with this experience. Estimated duration: 40-50 minutes Vocabulary words: Objectives
In colonial times, people made many household items at home or in small shops. This included things like cloth and cookware. The Industrial Revolution started in Europe in the 1700s. New machines and the use of water and steam power changed how goods were made. Factories could make goods faster and in larger amounts.
The Industrial Revolution began in the United States in the late 1700s. In the 1800s, factories such as the Lowell mills used machines to make cloth. In this experience, you will learn how the Industrial Revolution changed life and work in the United States, especially in the North.
Objectives
Young spinners in Elk Cotton Mills, Fayetteville, Tennessee, 1910.
According to the photograph notes, the youngest girl hardly knew her name.
The youngest boy earned ten cents a day.
You learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and how it affected the Southern economy. Whitney also helped make the use of interchangeable parts more common in the United States. Interchangeable parts are matching parts that can be used in place of one another. Look at the machine shown below. Like other machines, it is made of many different parts.
Now imagine that the machine broke. What steps might you take to fix it?
First, define interchangeable: items that are made the same way so one can replace another. Then, build on students’ ideas. Before interchangeable parts, a worker might have to make a replacement part to fit a specific machine. Once parts were made in standard sizes and shapes, workers could keep replacement parts ready and use them when needed. Ask students:
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